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> slides or blog posts or anything meant for a broad audience.

Or if you're screensharing while pairing, or if a coworker is looking over your shoulder when you're sharing something, or...

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TBH, remote pairing in my experience is best done with a tool like upterm or tmate so the user can bring their own terminal toolbox (fonts, colors, settings) and it saves a lot of bandwidth too while remaining crisp, especially when text becomes compressed and hard to read.

Well not all your coworkers will have that especially if you're not a place that does pairing all the time but just as one-offs.

You could alternatively use VSCode Live Share which is pretty similar.

This isn’t a viable option because a) it forces a specific editor on users and b) it’s buying into Microsoft’s proprietary ecosystem (tracking, plugins, etc.).

    $ nix-shell -p tmate --command tmate

Now they have it for a one-off

error: nix-shell command not found

Oh you need something more modern, np

    $ nix shell nixpkgs#tmate --command tmate

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