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I don't know about brave, but the funniest thing I've done with my phone and keyboard is access an amazon workspace to run adobe InDesign for magazine layout wh

I don't know about brave, but the funniest thing I've done with my phone and keyboard is access an amazon workspace to run adobe InDesign for magazine layout while in my tent— sitting in a sleeping bag, a cold rain pattering against the "roof", with my back resting against my backpack and my phone angled nicely in my lap, using the keyboard's attached touchpad to carefully move and assign articles, tweak colors, and do the final bits needed for printing. There was definitely some squinting at the screen involved, heh.

tambourine_man 4y ago
I’d love to know more about that. Isn’t running Adobe CC on AWS prohibitively expensive? You need a decent video card and at the very least 8GB of RAM. Couldn’t you buy a laptop with what they’d charge you for a day of work? A quick simulation here is showing me US$ 140/h for a 4 core 16GB of Ram machine, no mention of video card.
- mrlemke 4y ago
  You can easily stow a portable solar panel in a hiking bag that can charge your phone and the other accessories. A laptop would have a harder time getting charged, even if it was a Chromebook. Portable battery packs intended for phones would also be easy to stow. Not only do they fit more compactly, but they are light on your weight budget and not as fragile as lightweight laptops.
  - tambourine_man 4y ago
    Sure, but I’m talking about price. AWS Workspace seems crazy expensive, to the point of being unusable almost. I love the digital nomad lifestyle, but at that price it’s more of a gimmick than a real choice
- bigiain 4y ago
  A g3s.xlarge running Windows is just under a dollar an hour - 4 cores, 30GB ram, 8GB video ram on Nvidia GPUs. $140 gets you a t3.xlarge 4 core 16gb ram instance (on linux) for a whole month.
  - tambourine_man 4y ago
    But that’s not Amazon Workspace he mentioned. That’s just EC2. Check out the hourly price of Workspace: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?pg=workspaces&sec=hs https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?pg=workspaces&sec...
    - cdev_gl 4y ago
      Sorry this comes a bit late, but the answer is you don't really need a performance machine for doing layout. Since Adobe's apps were originally built 30 years ago, the minimum requirements remain quite low. Moving images around a page can handle quite a bit of lag. You don't even need a rented machine with a quality GPU. I pay for this workspace: $9.75/month-Hourly-Windows licensed-Performance-2vCPU,8GB Memory,80GB Root,50GB User Since I'm only doing layout on an as-needed basis while hiking, rather than doing it full time, I tend to spend around $45 or less a month.

tambourine_man 4y ago

I’d love to know more about that. Isn’t running Adobe CC on AWS prohibitively expensive? You need a decent video card and at the very least 8GB of RAM. Couldn’t you buy a laptop with what they’d charge you for a day of work? A quick simulation here is showing me US$ 140/h for a 4 core 16GB of Ram machine, no mention of video card.

mrlemke 4y ago
You can easily stow a portable solar panel in a hiking bag that can charge your phone and the other accessories. A laptop would have a harder time getting charged, even if it was a Chromebook. Portable battery packs intended for phones would also be easy to stow. Not only do they fit more compactly, but they are light on your weight budget and not as fragile as lightweight laptops.
- tambourine_man 4y ago
  Sure, but I’m talking about price. AWS Workspace seems crazy expensive, to the point of being unusable almost. I love the digital nomad lifestyle, but at that price it’s more of a gimmick than a real choice
bigiain 4y ago
A g3s.xlarge running Windows is just under a dollar an hour - 4 cores, 30GB ram, 8GB video ram on Nvidia GPUs. $140 gets you a t3.xlarge 4 core 16gb ram instance (on linux) for a whole month.
- tambourine_man 4y ago
  But that’s not Amazon Workspace he mentioned. That’s just EC2. Check out the hourly price of Workspace: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?pg=workspaces&sec=hs https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?pg=workspaces&sec...
  - cdev_gl 4y ago
    Sorry this comes a bit late, but the answer is you don't really need a performance machine for doing layout. Since Adobe's apps were originally built 30 years ago, the minimum requirements remain quite low. Moving images around a page can handle quite a bit of lag. You don't even need a rented machine with a quality GPU. I pay for this workspace: $9.75/month-Hourly-Windows licensed-Performance-2vCPU,8GB Memory,80GB Root,50GB User Since I'm only doing layout on an as-needed basis while hiking, rather than doing it full time, I tend to spend around $45 or less a month.