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It goes opposite way as well. I have workstation with 128GB ram with a few terabytes of storage, I can run full stack with everything in single machine. I also have VM snapshots, versioning etc... There is simple script that installs all deps and setup dev machine.

My colleagues have tiny Macs with 16GB. To accommodate them, we had to split mono dev setup into separate K8S cluster.

On single machine I could easily split test build process. Now we have spaghetti of dependencies. And spinning up secondary dev instances is not permitted due to high AWS cost.

So investing result binary (like this blog post) is now impossible.

I started using minipc for this reason. It is lighter, more powerful, cheaper, and has all the connectivity without some USB voodoo.