My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook

Actions that require a lot of redrawing tend to lag, though: if you only know `hjkl` navigation and visually select every string you want to work on you will definetely experience some lag.

On the other hand, if you use more "advanced" movements and use text-objects and Ex commands extensively, you won't find reasons to complain.

What does it have to do with a Chromebook / terminal exactly? I've got exactly the same for my regular workstation...

I'm using a Debian Linux workstation for development using full disk encryption. Should it be stolen the account would be locked up (I always lock it without even waiting the timeout when I stand up: one shortcut and it's locked and you can't unlock it without my password) so there's no way anyone is accessing my data without my password. No, sure, if an attacker knows my password (and/or the boot-time disk encryption password) he can access my data, just like he could access your cloud data should he know your password.

Should my house burn and my workstation (be it a laptop or a desktop) be broken, it's essentially commodity hardware too. What makes you think I don't have automated backup scripts? (gpg + scp FTW).

There's simply no way I'm accepting latency back/forth to some cloud thing. And the "bad" thing with physics is that physical ain't going to change: short of major scientific breakthrough no matter the $$$ we're not getting better latency anytime soon.

Also, I consider an environment which can suddenly "stop working" because something changed server-side to be fundamentally broken: I'm in total control of my dev environment and there isn't a single update that can be made without my consent.

You're giving up all that power once you decide to develop using a "terminal".

Of course that power comes at a price: you need to be able to install and configure your OS so that it uses full-disk encryption, you need to write a few scripts taking care of automated encrypted backups, you need the discipline to "lock" your system everytime you stand up (by now it's a habit), etc.

But once it's set up, my dev environment doesn't change.

I've also been able to use a local ubuntu on this machine, not that it matters too much since I'm on a VPS, but i guess on planes or something I can have code available to me by means of a git before i get on the flight (or cron or something similar).

I don't know what a system 76 is...

2. But vi isn't the best for iOS dev or J2EE and I recognize this. But my work is usually CLI or web, so this works for me.

3. Offline: REcently I've gotten an ubuntu running in dual boot...so ... keep your eye on my site, I may post soon.

Can you pick up your hacking session while at the apple store if you happen to have no computer whatsoever with you? That's worth a lot to me since i rarely travel and, if I do, my goal is to get away from computers.