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This appears to be a shell script to deploy sshuttle to a DO droplet.

I've seen this sort of thing be helpful when the software is cumbersome to install and/or use. But, looking at the sshuttle docs, it doesn't look terribly complicated.

I've not used sshuttle myself, so maybe I'm missing something? Is it difficult to install or use? Honestly curious what problem this shell script is addressing.

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This project is yet another example of a thing someone built to solve some problem, but .... that someone didn't bother to explain just what the problem is, or why this solution is preferred over the other possible solutions.

A readme that describes only how to install a project, or the commands to type, is not sufficient. Every readme should start with a description of what the thing does, and why doing it this way is better.

On the other hand it led me to learn that sshuttle is a thing that exists, so that's cool.

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