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Lini Wants to Be the Portable Workstation Developers Actually Carry (glitchwire.com)
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[–] 40 points 5 months ago (6 children)

That thing is sexy and I have a romanticized view of cyberdeck-like devices, but what do people who do this kind of work actually need and use? As cool as this type of device is, are they actually useful?

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I remember my team hired a dude that would walk around with one of those old Nokia things. We were giving him a tour and he was logging into each box as we went along. I got the sense he was pretty comfortable with it.

    Personally, I don't get it. I really don't want to thumb type out anything more than a couple sentences.

    Also, probably unrelated, but that dude lasted only a few days.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The extreme portability is attractive. If I'm on holiday and only have to work over ssh to restart some services and edit configs, it's awesome. I have actually done it with a pi, with a separate screen. It's great.

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