Is it possible to use another system's processing power?

I have one pc on pentium r, 4gb ram and 448gb hdd. I also have another pc (although temporary), but with core i5. The problem is I have the android workstation (android studio, flutter, sdks, libraries, etc) installed on the insufficient pentium r. Is it possible to piggyback the processing power of the core i5 without installing that entire workstation afresh? Kind of like the way I can project the visuals of a damaged screen to a monitor. The pentium is too slow to run the android stuff so I want to parasite the i5 with the limited time at my disposal. Is this possible?

Open android studio trough ssh with x11 forwarding 😁

Why not attach the harddrive to the faster PC and boot from it? (or is Windows bitchy about that?)

@retoor thanks. I'm currently looking into links for that targeting windows OS

@possum I don't know how to do that. Do I need to take both systems to a hardware/mechanic to do for me?

@possum Linux USB stick :)

Vpn, ssh w/ x11 forwarding, perhaps xpra

For builds you could leverage remote builds if you use docker, dagger or nginx.

I _think_ intelliJ has a headless-remote mode, maybe AS has it too? This way you could use your local IDE for IDE frontend/controls and it would puppeteer the remote headless ide on your powerful pc.

Just move the drive to the better PC.

If you have a newer windows (7 and above) it will likely bitch about drivers (expected), or force you to run in safe mode. In either case, substitute drivers as needed and you should be good to go.

@CoreFusionX yes. I spoke with a sysadmin friend and was told that the x11 route would be slower and more complicated than running it on my main system. That my best bet is to swap the hdds but that it's risky since I don't own the other system and can't afford any of its parts being replaced or damaged.

So I took it to a hardware engineer and he said the only way the hdds can be transferred is by loosing both systems and that, that is the only way to the best of his knowledge, I can achieve my aim. Otherwise, I should just buy enough Internet and download it on the i5. I can neither afford that amount for 10 Days of revision nor do I find it acceptable to loose my benefactor's system. I'd be livid if someone did that to me

possible? technically yes. practical? no.

@Nmeri17

Well, I still don't get what exactly are you risking. You take out the HDD on the good PC, put in yours.

Their data is safe in their own HDD, and you operate with yours (where do you think drivers are saved, if not in your own HDD?).

Once you are done, you take your HDD out, put the original back in, and the PC will not even notice anything was done at all.

And what kind of engineer says that the only way to substitute a HDD is wiping both?

You can fucking Hot swap nonprimary disks nowadays. Primaries only require that you reboot.