Comment by cdev_gl
3 years ago
This is basically similar to the process I've used to turn my phone into a dev/writing environment for spending months thru-hiking in areas without internet.
I use termux to host a jupyterlab instance and bring along a tiny folding bluetooth keyboard. Even in airplane mode I can connect to the locally hosted jupyterlab instance. Notebooks are kept in git and synced up to my private repo when I'm back on grid.
There are simpler solutions for writing, but this allows me to keep a single workflow across home/travel contexts. Being able to run graphs, basic code and computation as needed is also a plus.
My older mac book recently died and instead of buying a new laptop I'm using termux to connect to a droplet for side projects. I've tried two different bluetooth keyboards so far and found one I liked with back-lit keys. Also recently setup wireguard on a raspberry pi at home and had fun working on my droplet through my VPN while on a flight. What a time to be alive.
You could probably set up Tailscail ssh that was recently posted here on HN. Though why do you need to go from VPN to droplet?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31837115
Cool, I'll check it out. It is an extra hop, but my fdroid termux install has been blown away (along with my ssh key) several times by the play store version. So now I save my key on my pi instead. I did turn off updates from play store for termux so hopefully it doesn't overwrite termux again.
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I don't know what is braver, if hiking for months or developing on a Bluetooth keyboard and a phone.
I don't know about brave, but the funniest thing I've done with my phone and keyboard is access an amazon workspace to run adobe InDesign for magazine layout while in my tent— sitting in a sleeping bag, a cold rain pattering against the "roof", with my back resting against my backpack and my phone angled nicely in my lap, using the keyboard's attached touchpad to carefully move and assign articles, tweak colors, and do the final bits needed for printing.
There was definitely some squinting at the screen involved, heh.
I’d love to know more about that. Isn’t running Adobe CC on AWS prohibitively expensive? You need a decent video card and at the very least 8GB of RAM.
Couldn’t you buy a laptop with what they’d charge you for a day of work? A quick simulation here is showing me US$ 140/h for a 4 core 16GB of Ram machine, no mention of video card.
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