Originally Posted by
tjspiel
Because I often do work at home and as a software developer who's constantly changing stuff on my machine, I don't want to have to worry about keeping things in sync on a home computer.
Using a VPN or remote connection doesn't always work well for the kinds of things I'm doing.
Sometimes I work while at neither the office or at home.
Ah, okay, thanks. I didn't want to side-track @
alan s's thread too much (sorry!), but with remote access of computers being a relatively mature technology (I remember first reading about Norton pcAnywhere in the early 1990s), it strikes me as weird that so many people are compelled to transport a laptop when they commute back and forth. Or if not a requirement, one of the ways that bike-commuters sometimes find ways to carry too much stuff with them.
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