Sure, as long as the VPN itself is secure. Strong passwords/keys, etc. A VPN itself can be a potential security risk, as if it’s compromised an attacker can tunnel traffic directly into a network straight past a firewall.
The risks can definitely be mitigated, but if someone’s asking for an ELI5 on KVMs, then it may be best to stay away until they have a better understanding of IT infrastructure altogether.
ELI5:
It lets you remotely control a computer.
It’s different (arguably better) than remote connection software because it is a separate device that basically just forwards your keyboard & mouse inputs. This means that you can control the remote device even if it’s powered off or not able to boot properly, and you can configure the BIOS remotely too.
You could call someone on-site to connect the KVM to a server, but KVMs, while expensive by regular person standards, are pretty cheap as enterprise hardware goes. So some organizations just keep separate KVMs plugged into all critical hardware all the time.
Worth noting here that KVMs are potentially a quite high security risk.
Their website is probably light on details because “KVM” is fairly common industry parlance. If you normally work with this stuff then just hearing those 3 letters tells you most of what you need to know.
Edit: high, not Hugh
Yeah, mastodon simply doesn’t have an advertising budget, and having to pick an instance, while trivial, is still enough to stop a lot of people from joining.
I’d be interested to see how different it would look if we only counted average active daily users
I hate to be a dork and fact check, but a large iced signature latte with the whipped cream and caramel ‘only’ has 74g of sugar. That’s obviously still a ton, but a far cry from the claim here.
Maybe the drink in question is a custom order with, like, a septuple shot of caramel sauce? But would anyone actually order that?
Would it? Sure if you only ate those donuts you’d get malnourished, but that’s probably true of the drink too.
Either would make you swell up like a balloon and significantly increase your risk of diabetes, but I doubt either would kill you very quickly, assuming you’re getting any amount of other nutrients
Good for pixelfed