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One solution I'm considering is a heavy duty home server (since I want to get into serious astrophotography image processing and machine learning) paired with a really cheap chromebook
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The server will be a power-hungry-work machine and can be a minimalist linux environment otherwise. Chromebook for mobility, with all writing work done entirely online... basically weaning myself out of the thick desktop world altogether while waiting for someone to reinvent it
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So basically: ✓ heavy-lift server ✓ consumption devices (phone/tablet) ✓ browser-typing heavy device (chromebook) ✓ experimental smart environment ✕ ditch thick desktop environment with "apps"
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Maybe the thick desktop as an environment is basically uncanny valley and dead right now. Caught in the badlands between touch-consumption, servers, and browser-native typing.
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i'm just thinking all the 3d animation and video editing i've ever done, rendering the final is a unitary task you could throw tons of cpu at and parallelizes well but the in-situ stuff can be handled fine on a desktop