The silver lining of all this is that your local vscode instance becomes more of a thin client, with the heavy lifting being done by the remote instance. It's p

The silver lining of all this is that your local vscode instance becomes more of a thin client, with the heavy lifting being done by the remote instance. It's perfect for the "small laptop ssh'd into beefy workstation" use-case, but less so for the "beefy workstation ssh'd into tiny VM/VPS". If you're doing the latter, I'd recommend using sshfs or some other remote-fs-mount setup, and opening the mounted directory in vscode normally.