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My dream computer is a big noisy box that lives in a corner of my basement. That machine is my desktop, my laptop, my work machine, and my gaming machine. I can
by rolenthedeep 4y ago
My dream computer is a big noisy box that lives in a corner of my basement. That machine is my desktop, my laptop, my work machine, and my gaming machine. I can take any computer with a network connection, ping the noisy box, and I've got a desktop environment that is in the exact state I left it in. I want to shut down my main workstation at home, and open my laptop at work to the exact same windows and files I had open an hour ago. When my computer is old, I want to buy one (1) set of new hardware, throw it in the noisy box and just get back to work. I don't want to buy multiple new laptops and build an entirely new desktop machine every N years.
In a pinch, I can plug my phone into a monitor to show a file. I can use any random untrusted machine to open a window into my secure system. I don't have to synchronize files because they're all on the machine.
Basically, I want my computer to not physically exist. I want my computer where I am, regardless of the hardware in front of me.
I have an obsolete server in my basement now that represents more raw power than all of my conventional machines combined (except for GPU). And yet I still have to maintain four(!) individual machines in various physical locations.
I'm tired of having multiple computers. I already have one that can do everything, so why can't it just do everything?!