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Ask HN: Laptop for as remote client and a server workstation

by wqtz on 6/30/24, 8:14 PM with 1 comments

I have been wondering, if I should set up a solid server workstation at home and use that for compute and code. While I use a lightweight sub 3 pound laptop with interchangable batteries and work from different places. I do not use my laptop anything beyond work which involves coding, chatgpt and stackoverflow. For server based compute stuff, I have found VS code remote server quite useful. For SSH into my LAN from internet without configuring my router, I think I can use ngork or tailscale. I wish the web browsing load could be shared by my server but I do not think this technology exist any more (a similiar method was used by Opera mobile browsers).

Does anyone have a similiar setup?

  • by stop50 on 6/30/24, 10:23 PM

    why not a full vpn? The webbrowser gets thinks he talks to xyz.tld, but reaches only an proxy that cached the data.