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Yep. But these days for anything else, I just fire up a cloud VM and kill it when it's done. I spent less on that than the 3900X and RAM would have cost me in 5 years.

My main daily driver machine and dev box is now the absolute ass end M1 Mac Mini and it's the best computer I have ever had.

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My primary dev environment is in ec2. I don't really care about multiple monitors. It's so convenient.

What do multiple monitors have to do with having a dev env on EC2?

But on a similar note, I use VS Code's Remote SSH plugin to connect to an EC2 on one monitor and terminal + browser on the other. It's not my primary dev env, but it's great for experiments and side projects.

Can you tell me more about your setup? Like which ec2 instance size, remote desktop software, and any other tips? I’ve considered doing the same.

I use different size instances, but I use SSH (mosh), tmux, and vscoder through the browser, when I "need" an IDE.

on my MacBook Air, I use azure data studio to connect to our MSSQL instances if I need a UI view of our database.

I pretty much do work that needs more then 16GB of memory all day every day (and can take advantage of CPU cores up to 12 to 16 range). But yeah very dependent on your environment/workflow.

Especially if you are just doing lightweight web dev 16GB is more then enough (could probably get away with 8GB or less)

I sit here with 24GB memory usage just from my browser, a couple PDFs and two IDEs (Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code).

Your computer always uses as much memory as possible. That’s not evidence it wouldn’t work with less.

I have 64GB memory and still occasionally get OOMs with my dev workload.

As always, it depends what you're doing.

What are you doing?

Yeah that’s like one chrome tab running slack.

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