MS DevBox
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I think there is a bit of an anti-Microsoft attitude in upper management at this time. "They" seem to think that either "free" (e.g. open-source) or "whatever costs the most" must be the best product -- surely a mid-priced option should be avoided on principle. :omg:
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Fortunately the OS requirements (win 10/11 Enterprise) mean my current employer can't consider it. Because we all know how it would go. "All your work is in the cloud now, so we're replacing your current workstation with a $200 piece of crap with a dual core 1ghz processor and 2gb of ram to fund the next round of executive bonuses." Followed with next quarter: "Paying $0.50/hour for hosting is too expensive. We've deployed a script to automatically log you out of and shut down your remote development environment after 3 seconds of inactivity. We've also negotiated a new custom platform tier with Azure. You'll now only have 1 CPU core and 1 GB of ram." And then: "Developer productivity has fallen catastrophically over the last half year. To save costs we're sacking all of you and replacing you with a team from Offshoria who will work for a dollar a day." The final update will be posted not via normal business channels but on :elephant:edCompany.com
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
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Fortunately the OS requirements (win 10/11 Enterprise) mean my current employer can't consider it. Because we all know how it would go. "All your work is in the cloud now, so we're replacing your current workstation with a $200 piece of crap with a dual core 1ghz processor and 2gb of ram to fund the next round of executive bonuses." Followed with next quarter: "Paying $0.50/hour for hosting is too expensive. We've deployed a script to automatically log you out of and shut down your remote development environment after 3 seconds of inactivity. We've also negotiated a new custom platform tier with Azure. You'll now only have 1 CPU core and 1 GB of ram." And then: "Developer productivity has fallen catastrophically over the last half year. To save costs we're sacking all of you and replacing you with a team from Offshoria who will work for a dollar a day." The final update will be posted not via normal business channels but on :elephant:edCompany.com
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
Unfortunately true. The accountants are in charge, and as we all know they "know the cost of everything and the value of nothing".
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Fortunately the OS requirements (win 10/11 Enterprise) mean my current employer can't consider it. Because we all know how it would go. "All your work is in the cloud now, so we're replacing your current workstation with a $200 piece of crap with a dual core 1ghz processor and 2gb of ram to fund the next round of executive bonuses." Followed with next quarter: "Paying $0.50/hour for hosting is too expensive. We've deployed a script to automatically log you out of and shut down your remote development environment after 3 seconds of inactivity. We've also negotiated a new custom platform tier with Azure. You'll now only have 1 CPU core and 1 GB of ram." And then: "Developer productivity has fallen catastrophically over the last half year. To save costs we're sacking all of you and replacing you with a team from Offshoria who will work for a dollar a day." The final update will be posted not via normal business channels but on :elephant:edCompany.com
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
Dan Neely wrote:
All your work is in the cloud now, so we're replacing your current workstation with a $200 piece of crap with a dual core 1ghz processor and 2gb of ram
This is actually workable. Not sure about 1GHz/2GB RAM, but I do have a NUC on my desk, and RDP into remote VMs. Its only job is to show a remote machine's display, so you don't need a tremendous amount of horsepower to do that. At one point I was RDPing into a remote system over VPN that was thousands of miles away, over my puny 5mbps connection. I honestly had no problem with that, even though the RDP session was set up across 2 monitors, a full HD one and a 4K one. Of course I wasn't watching videos (or sharing screens over a Teams call) with that, but for VS, a bunch of command line windows and a few browser sessions? Plenty. Of course the remote system was way more powerful than the NUC on my desk. There's no downscaling a dev workstation if you want its user to be productive.
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We use cloud desktops for all of our offsite devs (outside the U.S.). Not sure if they are "MS DevBox" ones or not. biggest complaint is performance, some worse than others. Just not as performant as a hard wired local desktop, or a good laptop at the ready. Other than that it seems to be working so far.
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And in tomorrow's Insider News: MS DevBox hacked and millions of lines of source code stolen.
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SVG Grids: Squares, Triangles, Hexagons with scrolling, sprites and simple animation examples -
And in tomorrow's Insider News: MS DevBox hacked and millions of lines of source code stolen.
Latest Article:
SVG Grids: Squares, Triangles, Hexagons with scrolling, sprites and simple animation examples... The stolen code was uploaded to ### for additional AI learning to turn out better code search results... :-D
