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Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

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Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

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Post by pmoriarty »

naravara wrote: post #102
al_chemist wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paperspace supports* Linux client, GeForce Now does not. * allegedly. Tried to set up Paperspace and Parsec without result.

If your use case is gaming, does Linux support matter much? If anything I would think this would be for someone who has a Linux setup but wants to access games that aren't available.

"If your use case is gaming, does Linux support matter much?"

It really depends on the game.

For instance, Factorio, which is enormously popular on HN, has a perfectly functioning Linux version. Many other games do too, and some games even perform better on Linux than on Windows, not to mention having a better user experience on Linux (especially if you are technical and know what you're doing).

I have an old Linux laptop, and Factorio performs well enough in single player, but I run in to serious performance issues on multiplayer. It's be nice to be able to run this Linux game on a more performant Linux machine, without shelling out the $$$ for a new gaming rig.

Further, I'd like to avoid Windows as much as possible, where it can be avoided.

Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

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Post by rvnx »

atian wrote: post #92
woah wrote: post #78

I've used Paperspace's Gradient product (hosted Jupyter notebooks), and while it is cheaper than most other options, I can't recommend it. The service has a very janky feel. When I first started, there was an issue where my instance was was stuck "shutting down" for half an hour or more and I couldn't access my code. Then there was a weird issue where some kind of geographical split between different types of instanc…

I also can't recommend them. Service is operational when working, but the times it isn't working as expected I don't have the patience to message support. Things just aren't straightforward. This was 2 years ago when I used them to run a couple of Windows apps for work.

I had issues with Paperspace too, switched over to Shadow.

I pay +/- 14 USD per month for a computer with 4 cores @ 3.4 GHz, 12 GB RAM, GTX 1080, 256 GB SSD. No commitment.

I'm not sure where is the good deal with Workstream ?

Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

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Post by dbish »

I think there is a market here. I don't use this service, but instead use an EC2 instance as my developer box (for personal projects) and I do like being able to easily move between multiple machines, no matter where I am and easily spin up another instance when I want to start fresh or try out other setups like having a more powerful machine or something with a GPU. At work (I work at AWS) most people do the same for their developer machines and don't have physical desktops, just using their laptops for access or lightweight local development.

A service that makes setting up and managing those developer machines easier for folks who don't want to learn or fiddle with AWS options would be valuable.

Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

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Post by blablabla123 »

dalore wrote: post #108

I use Paperspace's core compute machines for my IDE and dev machines. It's great not having to run everything local, can use a cheap low end laptop locally but still have a beast dev machine. If I end up hosing my dev I can just start it from the last snapshot. Granted could probably do this with any host/cloud infrastructure. But I'm happy with it.

That's also how I use it. I tried other hosters but for dev use, theirs is particularly nice because it's much cheaper. Also I like the user interface ;) Unfortunately I didn't try Gradient yet but Core already has so many possibilities...

Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

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Post by Aperocky »

dbish wrote: post #123

I think there is a market here. I don't use this service, but instead use an EC2 instance as my developer box (for personal projects) and I do like being able to easily move between multiple machines, no matter where I am and easily spin up another instance when I want to start fresh or try out other setups like having a more powerful machine or something with a GPU. At work (I work at AWS) most people do the same fo…

> learn or fiddle with AWS options

AFAIK if you only want a box to act as a dev environment, that would not be much work beyond ec2:run-instance? Is there anything obvious that I'm missing?

Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything

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Post by third_I »

derefr wrote: post #105
third_I wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should really look into GitLab. It's free to self-host the whole thing if you want, and there's a full CI/CD pipeline (you can plug whatever you want in there). It's miles and leaps beyond what GitHub offers (different target I suppose). You'd still have to code the linking to a wallet part, but that's definitely doable.

The GP poster's point was that the hosting service needs to prove to the consumers of the app that what's running on the hosting service is the same code they can browse through on GitHub. When you're both the developer and the consumer, you can certainly prove this to yourself (to five nines of confidence or so) by just setting up the hosting yourself. But we're talking about the case of a centralized backend for a…

Fair point, I overlooked this. My mistake.

Different target, yet again.

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