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There's definitely a sort of "keeping up with the Joneses" that goes on in technical fields with regard to hardware. I do all my personal projects on a 2013 mod
by tdeck 5y ago
There's definitely a sort of "keeping up with the Joneses" that goes on in technical fields with regard to hardware. I do all my personal projects on a 2013 model Ultrabook. Sure it's underpowered, but not for editing text, compiling small codebases, or building CRUD WebApps. If I need to do some derp learning, I can just spin up a cloud instance. There are certainly productive tasks that benefit greatly from newer hardware (video editing, compiling the Linux kernel, launching a single instance of the Android Studio emulator), but most of this hardware capacity is probably for gaming and, like many people, I'm not much of a gamer.
- mlang23 5y agoSince I am still mostly on a plain terminal, I used to have a time when I used a rpi0w as a laptop, since I really dont need much more then an instance of Emacs and a few ssh sessions in a tmux. I switched to a real laptop by now, and its nice to have a bit of local power. But I could actually do all my dayjob on a rpi0w. https://blind.guru//blog/2016-06-12-brlpi.html https://blind.guru//blog/2016-06-12-brlpi.html https://hackaday.com/2019/03/26/not-all-raspberry-pi-laptops-have-qwerty-keyboards-and-screens/ https://hackaday.com/2019/03/26/not-all-raspberry-pi-laptops...