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He has powerful and expensive hardware in perfect condition, that he can’t use because it depends on a closed-source OS and is controlled by Apple’s policies. H
by leephillips 5y ago
He has powerful and expensive hardware in perfect condition, that he can’t use because it depends on a closed-source OS and is controlled by Apple’s policies. He recommends another device running another closed-source OS and controlled by the same corporation for software development. Wouldn’t a better choice be a device that you can actually own?
- ghuntley 5y agoConsider a standard node_modules and installing via pnpm - that’s a lot of network round trips and downloads if you are on a marginal internet connection. When your development machine has Gbit uplinks all that pain melts away. These cloud style development environments are lovely because all development is happening in a data centre and frankly it’s all sandboxed. Every time you run “git pull && make” from GitHub you are essentially rolling the dice that the end result is not “rm -rf /*” or “sudo apt-get install miner” (if you are lucky)
- vorpalhex 5y agoPlease don't run code from the internet without glancing at first. I also believe parent was discussing the fact his laptop managed to get bricked because he left a beta program...