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Seems like it would also not be so wonderful if your remote employees are in rural areas (like the Joshua Tree area I reside in); I don't think I could handle the latency between keystrokes.

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I just set up IntelliJ to use my remote workstation for LSP and Build and Test, but all of the text editing happens locally.

Specifically the files are also hosted remotely but the local text buffers are synced in the background not every keystroke.

How did you manage this? Every time I tried it, Idea insistent on managing the lsp server itself and locally.

Surely you have options though? In Rural NZ we have a choice between 4g which runs at about 50mbps and latency of about 15ms and starlink which runs at around 100mbps and has a latency of about 25ms.

Both should be good enough for remote work.

I like how you're implying I haven't worked here for years and don't know the options. I have the best possible option and that system can be flaky for hours on end depending on a lot of factors.

I wasn't implying that at all, more I was shocked at how a country like America doesn't have high speed broadband ubiquitously available. So it was more rhetorical than anything.

Fair enough. You have my apologies

California by itself is bigger (by population and surface area) than all of NZ, to say nothing of the rest of the US. I'm not saying that the US has done a great job with internet access, just that it's not exactly a fair comparison.

Having more people in a bigger area increases the aggregate expense, but also provides more people to spread it around (and the US also has a higher per capita GDP.)

There may be legitimate differences that make this harder for the US that aren’t simple failures, but you haven’t identified one.

But the frontend runs locally via JavaScript, so while latency is real, there shouldn't be more between keystrokes than, say, VScode. (Because otherwise that would be intolerable.)

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