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Oh, can you share more? What is your programming environment? I am debating a move to desktop/workstation with desktop CPU to support smoother Scala/lots-of-co

Oh, can you share more? What is your programming environment? I am debating a move to desktop/workstation with desktop CPU to support smoother Scala/lots-of-containers development experience. Pandemic made laptops less appealing. With digital nomadism being a question mark for some. Yes, I do know some still continue to practice this lifestyle. I can be only jealous :)

maccard 5y ago
> Oh, can you share more? What is your programming environment? I work in games and write C++. Compile times are long, and we deal with large amounts of assets (current project is ~50GB of textures, models, animations, sound. This is small. Last project was >500GB). > With digital nomadism being a question mark for some. Sure, if you want portability or being able to move around this sort of machine won't work for you, but I live with my partner in a nice city, work remotely and have a separate home office. I have almost 0 need for the portability of a laptop.
archi42 5y ago
Depending on your needs(!), you can just use the laptop as a frontend for a much more powerful machine. I did that for a while with a Sandy Bridge (core i7-2xxx gen) dual socket server in the basement, and it did work quite well. No matter if I was at home or somewhere else - but for dev work ssh into the Linux host OS was enough for me, with an occasional RDP into a Windows VM.
- openplatypus 5y ago
  I considered this option with NoMachine and in-house power-machine or cloud workstation. In a way make sense, but ultimately, I decided against because: Security – having open port to workstation makes me scared; bugs/0-days are discovered every day; Quality Internet Connection – less tricky as most access would be local LAN, but I am certain that few times I need it remotely to fix a production issue, something will go wrong; Maintenance vs Cost – in-house machine would be cheaper but will require remote power on/off capability vs in cloud server being rather pricey But yes, in general, I agree. Having a light, portable device with long battery life and connecting to a remote, beefy machine would be a dream. And I am not imagining it, as this was my workflow back in 2013 when I was working for a bank. If it was possible then, it definitely is possible today. Have high hopes for https://shadow.tech/ https://shadow.tech/
  - paulsmal 5y ago
    Steam remote play or moonlight/sunshine [0] working great for me in setup like this. [0] https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine

maccard 5y ago

> Oh, can you share more? What is your programming environment? I work in games and write C++. Compile times are long, and we deal with large amounts of assets (current project is ~50GB of textures, models, animations, sound. This is small. Last project was >500GB). > With digital nomadism being a question mark for some. Sure, if you want portability or being able to move around this sort of machine won't work for you, but I live with my partner in a nice city, work remotely and have a separate home office. I have almost 0 need for the portability of a laptop.

archi42 5y ago

Depending on your needs(!), you can just use the laptop as a frontend for a much more powerful machine. I did that for a while with a Sandy Bridge (core i7-2xxx gen) dual socket server in the basement, and it did work quite well. No matter if I was at home or somewhere else - but for dev work ssh into the Linux host OS was enough for me, with an occasional RDP into a Windows VM.

openplatypus 5y ago
I considered this option with NoMachine and in-house power-machine or cloud workstation. In a way make sense, but ultimately, I decided against because: Security – having open port to workstation makes me scared; bugs/0-days are discovered every day; Quality Internet Connection – less tricky as most access would be local LAN, but I am certain that few times I need it remotely to fix a production issue, something will go wrong; Maintenance vs Cost – in-house machine would be cheaper but will require remote power on/off capability vs in cloud server being rather pricey But yes, in general, I agree. Having a light, portable device with long battery life and connecting to a remote, beefy machine would be a dream. And I am not imagining it, as this was my workflow back in 2013 when I was working for a bank. If it was possible then, it definitely is possible today. Have high hopes for https://shadow.tech/ https://shadow.tech/
- paulsmal 5y ago
  Steam remote play or moonlight/sunshine [0] working great for me in setup like this. [0] https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine