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Comment by mvdwoord

5 hours ago

This is what we had all over the world (...) when Internet Cafes were a thing. Perhaps they should come back?

Most developers could not really do their own thing on a PC/laptop that is not theirs.

Are they supposed to set up their development environment each time?

  • For work oriented cafe, owners can partner with Teamviewer, license seats from it and then advertise this as a fast remote service. Iirc teamviewer requires payment only for host machine, clients can be free. Though I imagine the market for such setup would be extremely small and unprofitable.

    • Seems overly complicated when you could just give a plug for charger and let them use their own laptops.

    • Clearly StarBucks should rent out StarBucks branded developer machines in the cloud, which you can access from home or from StarBucks terminals.

  • You could still bring your laptop? Swap out the HDMI if you want to use the monitor...