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# Non-root account is recommended for this process

# centos-specific prepration
sudo yum -y update && sudo yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools' && sudo yum -y install curl irb m4 ruby

# Sanitize the environment
PATH=~/.linuxbrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH

# install linuxbrew

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A beginner's guide to setup Mosh roaming terminal on Mac to access Google Cloud Compute Engine instance

Being new to training ML models using Google Cloud VM instances, I faced issues where my ssh connection to the cloud instance (using either the clound web-based ssh client or using cloud shell) would disconnect from time to time (for example when I power off my laptop or the network gets disconnected) which would terminate the model training process. Therefore I searched for a ssh client that can handle disconnection and can resume connection without disrupting the process running on the server and came across with Mosh mobile shell, a remote terminal app that supports roaming.

It took me a while to figure out how to set up a third party ssh terminal using the google cloud OAuth. Here's a step-by-step guide:

Update: a simpler alternative for persisting remote sessions

Since this writing, another Mosh user kindly advised me that using terminal multiplexer co