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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 dbish »

dbish wrote: post #158
Aperocky wrote: post #127

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> 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?

standard installations (set yourself up with the tools you want running on the machine), keeping track of and managing the security parts (security keys/access credentials), mapping to any static IP or domain name you may want to use for ease of access, and other niceties could make the process smoother if you were purely focused on the developer workflow

also when you're testing things out on the machine you have to know how to change security settings for opening ports and providing access externally. These aren't too complicated to do, but just generally having simple tools/UI for making this simpler could be useful. for example, if you're a flask dev you may want to just run a site "locally" and make a few setting changes before being able to access your site. i've helped friends with how to do that before

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

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Post by subsubsub »

bransonf wrote: post #88

Curious what folks think the outlook on this technology is. Rather, will there be any significant shift towards centralized compute in the next decade? Currently, a large institution/corporation has to manage thousands of individual machines. Say a physical component fails, now a technician must go to the location of the machine and give the user a temporary replacement. Alternatively, in a centralized compute enviro…

The benefits to this are substantial, which is a bit worrying.

If this style of computing becomes the norm it would centralise and fragilize any systems, companies, economies that rely on it. As well as passing control over what can be run to a third party (see: "The war on general purpose computing").

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

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Post by geocrasher »

CJefferson wrote: post #3

Was going to try their Free account, until I signed up and the discovered the big black "Free" had a tiny light grey "+ Machine Utilization Charges" beneath it. Everything is "Free + Charges".

Yeah, I signed up for free but it wouldn't even let me create a machine. If they're going to expect to sell it, then at least make it possible to put together a machine and then charge to launch it. So far all I know now is tha they have 3 DC's to choose from. The rest, no idea. Can't get that far.

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

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

z3t4 wrote: post #120
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #70

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No cookies, no ads, source code always available, pay for a prebuilt version, user names price ... in excess of $100k/year (after 20 years :) ... ardour.org

Thinking about going open source but too afraid of hostile forks. How do you prevent people from stealing the business?

The world is full of risks. Got to deal with them.

It helped that I had 8 years (post-amzn) not needing to make any income and thus able to build a large amount of goodwill and visibility within relevant communities.

People do "steal" the software in the sense of putting it into DVD/ISO packages that they charge for.

My concern has never been that everyone pays, only that enough people pay. But perhaps that's why Ableton Live changed the zeitgeist of computer music production, and Ardour is just ... Ardour.

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

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Post by sabujp »

this works out to ~$375/yr for their advanced plan if you figure 8 hr work days and 261 working days per year (https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+work+days+per+year). How does this compare vs an equivalent instance with some kind of remote desktop running on a cloud service?

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

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Post by soulnothing »

azinman2 wrote: post #138
scrumper wrote: post #106

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Signing up right now for this - glad to hear it worked well. I have a Mac at home (not ideal for games) and at most a couple hours a week to do any gaming (so it's not worth buying a PC). For the absolute best machine they have, my outlay will be less than ten bucks a month. An easy sell.

But won’t the latency kill gaming tasks?

It's not much different than stadia or nvidia geforce(?).

I played online multi player games. If you have a 144hz gsync/freesync monitor. Then this isn't meant for that. But it was totally playable.

The weak portion is you're beholden to your internet. Traveling for work it didn't work at all. Most places I stayed had very slow internet and then the latency became unplayable.

I see this as a completely viable option if you're on Linux, or Mac and want to game every now and then. Or if you're waiting for a new GPU to come out and still want to game.

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

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Post by netcraft »

preya2k wrote: post #85
netcraft wrote: post #22

I've looked around the site but im still confused - It looks like its a windows OS? Is there an iPad client?

You can use it in the browser, or install any RDP/VNC Server you want on the Windows system. So yes, there are probably multiple iPad clients.

oh yeah, I didnt consider youd connect to it through standard RDP clients. Thanks!

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

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Post by delgaudm »

This is a new world to me... I'm looking to learn a GPU intensive application like Davinci Resolve before committing to a new machine to run it locally -- would this be an appropriate solution, and would it obviate the need for the local machine, i.e. can I do everything on this that I could do locally?
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