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Familiarity and low resources needed .. I can use a $5/year natted VPS and program (via Git/Vim), run scripts, surf the web (links), chat on IRC (Weechat) and c
by joshbaptiste 7y ago
Familiarity and low resources needed .. I can use a $5/year natted VPS and program (via Git/Vim), run scripts, surf the web (links), chat on IRC (Weechat) and continue my Tmux/Screen workflow on basically any *nix machine with at least ~16MB memory.
- shay_ker 7y agowhy do you need to use low resources?
- joshbaptiste 7y agoNatted VPS's are usually very cheap (~$5/year) are low on resources by design and are great for pure terminal workflows.
- dredmorbius 7y agoEasier to access / run things on remote systems. Possible to create tools for use on small systems -- your DSL/Cable modem, say, which is really Just Another Linux Box, though with tiny capacity. Smaller VMs -- less system load, more available, greater flexibility. Run a shell on your Android or iOS device. Full power of the shell, scripting, and development tools. You can do more of whatever it is you want, faster, using less. It's an efficiency thing.
- leetrout 7y agoHow beneficial is surfing the web in 2019 with links? I was just using it yesterday on a raspberry pi zero and couldn’t download go from the very minimal golang.org site. I couldn’t imagine trying to use it day to day.
- joshbaptiste 7y agoindeed.. I don't do much more then the casual searching on DuckDuckGo and viewing Wikipedia articles and StackOverflow errors.