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What’s it like for remote support? Can you remote desktop into it if you need to? Or do you just not need to do that?

My goto for my grandma is an android tablet. She has terrible eyesight, so a light tablet can be “zoomed” as much as she needs, and i can remote in with some difficulty via teamviewer.

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Yep, you can remote in from Chrome on any other machine. Just get on the phone so they can provide the connection code, and you’re good to go. Unfortunately, this does not cover “I forgot my login password” …

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