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by PaulHoule
278 days ago
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One answer to some of those problems is to use remote desktop technology. Last time I went to a hackathon I brought a 15 inch Alienware from 2017 which has bad connections in the USB system and is on the edge of death. I loaded up Visual Studio and the Unity Framework ahead of time so I'd be ready to use the same tools as my team. Personally my favorite hackathon kit is a tablet plus a keyboard and a mouse. Remote desktop into a big computer and you have the sleekest kit anyone has and the most powerful computer. I have a powerful computer at home but I have ADSL, it is possible to remote into but latency is pretty bad. My plan, the next time I go to something like that, is to set up a cloud instance ahead of time and just boot it up. Somewhere between $1-$2 an hour would buy a powerful machine which would really be a bargain if I only want to run it for 20 hours on an occasional weekend. |
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That sentence is the closest to what I'm imagining--the thin client to personal computer, your use case is interesting (hackathon peripherals); I'm thinking of this as a lifetime-durability play.
Basically what if my home's NAS could also serve all my applications, and at any given time I really just have a KVM into it. If we assume network is fast enough, that would achieve the UX I want, which is that the KVM is effectively disposable and the personal computer stuff all stays intact.