i've done a bunch of dev work at home, ssh'ed & SOCKS5'ed from my main pc into a work laptop right next to it, connected to the same switch via gigabit, and i have to say: I am shocked what an abysmally slow & awful experience it has been. it cannot handle the parallelism of dealing with a lot of requests hardly at all. it's absurdly poorly performing.

it's still my go-to for sharing one system's vpn, but wow oh wow oh wow do i wish i knew some good alternatives. i really want something that works over ssh, but i begin to think that ssh is an inescapably bad starting point for these efforts.