Ask HN: Using your laptop as a cheap front for your workstation?

1 points by Avalaxy 5y ago ↗ HN

Are there any people here that have a powerful work PC at home and a less powerful laptop that they use as a 'front' to work on their remote PC? How did you set this up/what do you use? RDP? Does the latency interfere with your work? Are spotty connections a big problem?

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rootshelled 5y ago ↗

I have a 12 thread 64GB RAM VPS for 30 euros a month

Honestly, ssh for running commands + mounting ir locally(SSHFS) works great for me, but I never was able to install FUSE correctly on Windows and it's a bit annoying to install on MacOS(third party kernel module)

I mainly run some code on it and the occasional gameserver so I have no need for a GUI though I have been entertaining the idea of using Rancher to maintain docker/k8 stuff

Technically my laptop is higher performance then the VPS but running my docker env alone takes about half the memory I have (16GB)

ApolloRising 5y ago ↗

Try Expandrive on the Mac

brongondwana 5y ago ↗

Yeah, though my laptop is pretty powerful too, I like running big valgrind runs and such on the work desktop so my laptop's CPU is available for running zoom (which seems to eat up whatever is available to it)