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Developing software through Remote Desktop should be fucking illegal.

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  • 19
    Would you like some latency with your latency?
  • 1
    How else can I develop without a space heater???
  • 1
    Oh yeah it's God awful

    I recently asked my boss to get an ide with remote capabilities onto my laptop because of this
  • 9
    Click 'P' -> 5 ms lag -> 'P' show on screen.
    Click 'L' -> 5 ms lag -> 'L' show on screen.
    Click 'E' -> 5 ms lag -> 'E' show on screen.
    Click 'A' -> 5 ms lag -> 'A' show on screen.
    Click 'S' -> 5 ms lag -> 'S' show on screen.
    Click 'E' -> 5 ms lag -> 'E' show on screen.
    Click 'K' -> 5 ms lag -> 'K' show on screen.
    Click 'I' -> 5 ms lag -> 'I' show on screen.
    Click 'L' -> 5 ms lag -> 'L' show on screen.
    Click 'L' -> 5 ms lag -> 'L' show on screen.
    Click 'M' -> 5 ms lag -> 'M' show on screen.
    Click 'E' -> 5 ms lag -> 'E' show on screen.
    Click '!' -> 5 ms lag -> '!' show on screen.
  • 7
    @devdiddydog 5ms is pretty good actually
  • 3
    It gets worse when the remote desktop is a windows machine.
    KMN
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  • 1
    Is there a way to check your latency?
    for me its fast. guess 1ms latency ~

    I like the part where at the end of the day you simply press the X and BOOM no more work :)

    keeps work and private separated
  • 1
    @devdiddydog I'm sure I will first see plwasekilme if I type it before spending another few seconds to correct
  • 0
    Because of how our system works I sometimes have to develop remotely (if I am at a different branch away from my standalone) but the latency is normally 1-2ms because of a direct fiber link between branches.

    Almost not noticable at all
  • 0
    @0x0000FFFF Pretty sure your latency is not 1ms.
    https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-...
    This is a nice article about editor latency from a jetbrains developer and basis for their effort on zero-latency typing (included as default since 2017.1 IDEs)

    Edit: this is for typing latency. Having a Virtual Desktop will add some latency additionally, and I would guess that it adds more latency than just the network connection itself
  • 1
    I'm having that with a ~25ms ping and it's not that bad, at least as long the connection stays fast enough. It has some advantages:
    - no need for beefy work laptops
    - no company data outside the office
    - no need for Windows at home
    - access to company data / VCS at Gbit+ speeds
    - OS / application tasks (updates) are not my business
    - Terminal can stay "always on", just connect and continue working
    ± work from anywhere (any machine) as long as you got your VPN certificate, password and 2FA

    However if your connection is shit, well, then it's shit.
  • 0
    Even more fun if you have to work by RPD on Terminalserver and THEN RDP on your dev machine!
  • 1
    lol yeah, there was this gamedev company i worked for on a unity skiing game,the preferred to have me work via remote desktop instead of giving me remote access to the repo.

    a skiing game.
  • 1
    @Midnight-shcode oh sorry i forgot to mention another important bit: i was doing vfx and menu animations programming at the time and was also tasked with improving all the ui performance.

    yes, via remote desktop
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