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Tiktaalikyesterday at 6:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

This thing loaded up with Parsec could maybe be a great small, cheap coding machine, for accessing a more powerful computer beyond.

iPads with neither an ability to run VSCode nor Parsec have been frustratingly useless for this category.


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NetMageSCWyesterday at 8:55 PM

I do remote support with my iPad using Horizon, Citrix and Jump to RDP with a VPN.

nateb2022yesterday at 6:16 PM

I doubt anyone learning to program would need to subscribe to a remote dev machine just to run hello world type programs. From 2020-2023 I used an 8GB Macbook Air M1 to develop a lot of relatively heavy software, containers in the background too, and it wasn't a bad experience.

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