[FirmwareBurner]

Same in the semiconductor sector. You run everything remotely off a centralized on-prem mainframe and your laptop is just a thin client to a X11 session on the server. At least that's how it was 8 or so years ago. Maybe now they started to move to the cloud.

[asicsp]

But that's understandable. You need powerful machines to run simulations and stuff. And we could collaborate with colleagues over phone, with a shared VNC session, etc.