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I've used VNC to connect to a headless Mac Mini (previously i5, 8GB & now M1, 16GB) for many years.
I've tweaked it out in many ways to make it faster and the connection is directly from my Linux desktop over 1Gb ethernet directly to the Mac.
I am completely amazed and how slow it actually is. And there seems to be a bug where if you just type a character or two (say in a terminal window) then when the cursor stops it does not draw again.
It does this with the I-bar text cursor in XCode when I move it a few characters down to alter some text. After moving the I-bar it just doesn't redraw again. It's so annoying and I just didn't know that VNC would work so poorly -- well at least on the mac connection.
Anyways, I finally bought a KVM so I can just switch over to the mac.
I just don't really understand why the littlest thing like sending cursor position would be so slow.
I connect to remote desktops (windows 10 from my linux box) which are far away in distance across my router and out into the public internet and it works better so very confusing.
Glad I'm taking on the KVM.
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raddevus wrote: headless Mac Mini
Wow, where can I subscribe to behead Apple hardware ?
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VNC is a rather old protocol. If I remember correctly, it is an encapsulation of RFB (Remote Frame Buffer) protocol that just sends across squares of screen real estate that have changed. I doubt it has the concept of mouse position.
Also there are many VNC variants (real VNC, tiger VNC, tight VNC) so your mileage may vary. You might be better off with an RDP connection if there is such a thing for Macs.
Mircea
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Very good information. Thanks.
I thought it was related to the VNC protocol myself.
I have tried numerous times and various ways to use RDP to connect to the mac but could never get it to work. I also can't find anything online that shows that you can use RDP so I finally gave up.
Wow though! The KVM (obviously) is magical. Who'da thought that using your computer directly was so much faster than a remote connection? 
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raddevus wrote: Who'da thought that using your computer directly was so much faster than a remote connection?
Darn those hardware guys and their speedy toys! 
Mircea
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I've tried doing that as well. Even with RDP and a couple Windows boxes. At the end of the day, even if everything works quick-ish, the latency for this type of stuff is too much for real productive work. Especially if you do just about anything with graphics or animation. Personally, I don't touch the stuff unless I have no other choice for things like simple server admin. Sanity is more important than having to tap a button to swap.
Jeremy Falcon
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Come to think about it, there is a solution if you want both "on" at the same time. You can get wide monitors that take two simultaneous inputs at the same time and show each display on either side of the screen. Then it's a matter of installing software to make it seamless on both machines. Since it's only tracking keyboard and mouse data the latency is tremendously better than VNC or RDP.
I am in no way recommending this particular monitor but just showing they be out there: Amazon Clickety.
Jeremy Falcon
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Hmm, I guess there was no monitor connected to the Mac.
I know when I remote connected to a Windows PC without a monitor it caused issues with the remote software.
If you need to go back to remote desktop software you could try a monitor emulator dongle (AKA HDMI dummy plug) to simulate a monitor in hardware.
Software-wise I use TeamViewer - it is free for personal use. It can work over a local network, although that is not the default.
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... And they are running 45 minds late.
Herself is not happy, but it's quite fun listening to one side of receptionist telephone conversation.
A long call, someone wanting an appointment ASAP...
"The earliest I've got in 7th March"
"I know, but that's the earliest we have"
"I'm sorry to hear you're in pain, but..."
"What kind of pain have you got?"
"TOOTHACHE YOU STUPID ****" -- we all heard that bit.
Receptionist disconnects.
Oops.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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modified 10-Jan-23 11:55am.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "What kind on pain have you got?"
My arse hurts, but I thought the dentist may be giving it a try.
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I thought it was a pretty stupid question when she asked it ... 
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On a serious note, it looks like getting appointments in UK is almost as bad as getting one in France.
My wife asked for an appointment for my son who had had stomach ache for a few days, and they proposed an appointment 3 weeks later. Needless to say, it was gone by then. Only alternative are emergency care, but there they complain that they have too many people coming for things that are no emergency AND you loose at least 6 hours of your life in the waiting room.
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Covid: few people had checkups in '20 and '21 and the workload now they are fully reopen has probably gone through the roof.
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I blame this 100% on the heathcare industry. They shutdown during COVID and many of their highly skilled folks simply left for other, lower stress work.
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In the UK, it's a bit more complicated than that.
Combine 13 years of chronic underfunding by a government who wants to turn the NHS into an American-style private healthcare system, with tabloid newspapers encouraging old people to tell all "foreign" healthcare workers to "go back where they came from", and an education system that would leave any potential medical students with a lifetime of crippling debt, and you can start to see why we have a shortage of staff, equipment, buildings, and other resources.
And that's before you get into the corruption of government ministers bunging billions to their mates for PPE contracts during the pandemic, despite knowing that said mates were incapable of fulfilling them.
But it's fine; we'll just keep voting the same party into power, and blaming all of the problems on the same people we stood on our doorsteps and clapped for once a week during the lockdowns. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It is the same in the U.S.
Also, the nurses in Manhattan (NY, not Kansas) are on strike. So, if you actually get admitted to one of those hospitals, you most probably die, since it is the nurses that keep you alive while you are being treated.
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Start from the bottom and work your way up?
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OriginalGriff wrote: The earliest I've got in 7th March
The NHS works in mysterious ways, its wonders to perform...
(For non-UKians, NHS == National Health Service)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Is there anything called Emergency Toothache? Or is every toothache considered sub-emergency?
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Depends if you are the one suffering or listening to the phone, I guess.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That's not typical if you're a regular patient. Then there's all the scheduling that already went into the day. Sort of like this whole "I must travel by plane and make all my connections on time" mind set.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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told my grandson to become a dentist. Makes a lot of money and at regular hours.
Interesting and complex engineering problems to solve at times.
Fix problems to improve people's health.
only problem is you see a lot of people who don't want to be in your chair
and can't wait to leave.
Just saying.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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But they're always down in the mouth.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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 good one
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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