You mean, you're almost as unproductive on your development machine as on a random remote system that has no tools. And you somehow regard this as some sort of

You mean, you're almost as unproductive on your development machine as on a random remote system that has no tools. And you somehow regard this as some sort of playing field leveling that generates an advantage. Imagine a car mechanic that won't use a big hydraulic lift that hoists a car in seconds and lets him walk under it, claiming that by using a manually cranked portable jack, he can be almost as productive when fixing something by the roadside with emergency equipment as he is in his garage. If you ever meet such a mechanic you can be sure that he programs computers as a hobby.