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245 sats \ 15 replies \ @ek OP 21 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: SN Sneak Preview: Responsive Images + Fullscreen Support meta

Never had reasons good enough to configure vim for coding, haha

But when I go to visit @k00b in Austin, I want to SSH into my desktop machine at home since it's more powerful. I think then it will be very useful when I can code completely in vim. VSCode has remote development over SSH, but I think a really good vim setup will be better for remote development.

0 sats \ 14 replies \ @nemo 21 Sep 2023

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120 sats \ 9 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 21 Sep 2023

I use a 9 year old laptop when I do my SN work, it definitely bogs down hard at times. I’m just too cheap and lazy to buy a new machine

120 sats \ 8 replies \ @nemo 21 Sep 2023

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86 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek OP 21 Sep 2023

I like to find good quality used thinkpads, the T series was really well made back in the day :)

Hey, me too haha

I have a T420, a T420s, X220 and bought my girlfriend a T430 to her birthday. She's also into Thinkpads :)

Proof of Thinkpads:

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 21 Sep 2023

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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @bataroot 22 Sep 2023

🤩

Honestly, coding on a NixOS powered ThinkPad with vim and tmux is pure bliss.

You feel in total control 😎

5 sats \ 4 replies \ @nemo 22 Sep 2023

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 22 Sep 2023

Im going to btc++ in October, it's all about NixOS afaik

Looking forward to learn if NixOS is really that great as I hear from some people.

When people are really enthusiastic about something, I get very skeptical for some reason, lol

I think it's a "It can be this good, right? Right?" feeling

106 sats \ 0 replies \ @bataroot 23 Sep 2023

Trust me, but verify. Once you start describing your system declaratively with the assurance that what you have is what you expect and will be the same for every machine using the same definition, you'll never go back... :)

I am not even talking about the joy of using that same definition to build images for whatever target you need (VPS, proxmox, raspberri Pi, etc...).

Of course, take your time, like anything worth doing, it's a steep learning curve, but same as a tool like Vim, it's a long time investment.

In the mean time:

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @bataroot 22 Sep 2023

😂

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek OP 21 Sep 2023

how much more power do you need for dev work though, that you would need to ssh into a machine and not be able to do what you need to do on a semi-modern laptop?

The machine at home is really good, so it would be a waste to not use it.

And coding on SN in development mode for hot reload, browsing SN, a lot of tabs open + whatever else I am doing seems to eat up a lot of RAM. As you can see in the upper right corner of the video, I am already at 15GB RAM, so this laptop would need 32GB RAM.

I also don't like how hot laptops can get under load. Doesn't feel sustainable. My PC is constantly at 30°C-40°C