At least for personal experiments, how much worse is it to just build a system with a 1080 ti, leave it in a corner where you live and remote in as needed, from

At least for personal experiments, how much worse is it to just build a system with a 1080 ti, leave it in a corner where you live and remote in as needed, from a laptop, school, wherever. Separately it seems with ML price/performance is sometimes less important than how much money do you have to spend? For example with other development work, I’d probably never buy an 18 core cpu because for most projects it wouldn’t speed up my iterative work much. However ML is more like VFX work, where it’s common that nothing may be too fast. In other words I would be more often willing ignore price/perf, and for example pay 100% more for only a 50% perf gain, if it were within my means to do so.