celkam

It depends on the kernel version and the CPU's virtualization support. I have a C101PA that I got before the price hike, and use it for hacking in lisp during my commutes.

If Crostini gets USB support before WSL, though...

Once they add this and fix the lack of GPU support, I'll finally be down to one travel laptop.

Yes. In emulation, you have one chip architecture trying to mock the behavior of another chip architecture (like running ARM code on x86). In virtualization, you're setting up secure contexts, but sending the instruction for the code in the container straight to the CPU without translation.

Certain ports are bound to localhost from the container for "popular applications"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/99s3t9/wellknown_...

Before Crostini this is exactly what my setup was, just using a droplet on DO.

I've been thinking about this a bit, and my main concern about SOLID powering a social network is that it would thrash Pods from users with thousands of friends requesting thousands of documents on the same pod every x seconds, which might work for commercial servers but end up being a DDOS on smaller Pods.

I guess I'm worried about the power need to do this at scale, and that we'll end up with something analogous to bitcoin mining pools where there's few practical options for the average user.