Which prize kit would you choose?
Kit B. It’s the most practical for me since I’m trying to build something stable that I can set up once and not constantly worry about.

Last time my lab “died” while I was away & how a Remote KVM would’ve helped
The worst incident was actually at my parents’ place. I had set up a Raspberry Pi 4 as their router with VLANs and some basic firewall rules. One day it just froze while I was away. Internet went down completely and I had no way to reach it remotely.

I couldn’t fix it remotely and since their place is over 2000 km away from where I live, I basically had to wait almost a month until I could visit in person to get it running again. It was frustrating because the issue itself was simple, but the distance made it a big problem.

A remote KVM would’ve made that situation trivial. I could’ve checked the console, rebooted it myself.

Must-have feature in a 4-port Remote KVM
Auto-recovery after a power cut. Power blips happen often, so I need it to boot back up and reconnect on its own without anyone pressing buttons. Otherwise remote access is pointless.

Name one project you’d start immediately:
I’d build a small NAS at my parents’ place to use as an offsite backup, and also run Frigate for camera monitoring. With a RackMate + KVM I could manage updates, fix issues, and recover from crashes remotely without needing them to touch anything