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I don't quite understand how this is better than just streaming your desktop? The readme says "author made this because ... his internet could not handle streaming" but this is just streaming the (in-docker) display, no?

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But if you share your screen, you need to stream it to the peer. If this solution is already in the cloud on your VPS, meaning you only need to stream video to your computer. You send only small data of mouse/keyboard events.

So if you have better down link than uplink, what is really common with asynchronous digital subscriber lines, this is definitely the better choice.

Probably not your fault, the title of this post saying "Self hosted" isn't clear, I thought it meant "hosted on my PC" instead of being hosted elsewhere...I had the same question until I read readme and thought about it for a moment.

You can also host it on your PC, right? If you install Docker and expose the ports? Or is it not truly self-hosted?

Fair enough! Although personally I would (/used to, 15 years ago) just stream my VPS's screen rather than running a Docker container inside my VPS :)

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