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Assuming you use 25 gigs of space and develop for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, you reach the cost of a laptop (1200 / 2000) in two to three years. Without the
by blackbear_ 6y ago
Assuming you use 25 gigs of space and develop for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, you reach the cost of a laptop (1200 / 2000) in two to three years. Without the flexibility of a laptop, and the hassle to set it up.
So the pricing is not over the top.
- hvidgaard 6y agoOn the other hand, you can seat yourself at any computer with internet access, and have access to your complete environment. It also forces you to use CI/CD to be effective.
- hunts 6y agoYeah, e.g. writing code from an iPad Pro.
- tasogare 6y agoThe pricing per se it not the whole part of the issue, it’s one for sure, but more worrisome is the fact of Microsoft pushing cloud development. They can terminate a Github account at will, so doing cloud-first development is not a good idea. I’ll stay on local-first, cloud as backup.
- bildung 6y agoYou'd still need a computer, though, so now you pay for two laptops, one physical and one virtual?