Re:Ask HN: Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend?
by superkuh on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:28PM
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Not only should you let it 'idle', you should start hosting servers from home and always leave it on. It's the only form of "distributed" that really works and it gives you complete control over everything.
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Re:Ask HN: Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend?
by kodablah on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:34PM
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I think if more people had reliable always-on home boxes, software devs would have a better target for distributed tech (and one would expect it'd be incumbent upon the software to figure out reachability w/ ISP/NAT issues).
Similarly, if more people had always-on home boxes, many mobile apps might be thin clients to at-home software opening up plenty of possibilities. (even a simple VNC-like proxy to an at-home web browser w/ advanced ad blocking or other extensions can help those in walled gardens who could tolerate the latency)