If your ping is that high, you might be doing it wrong. Even Starlink is usually less than half that, usually a lot less. Most Remote Desktop setups I’ve seen are fairly and surprisingly responsive. It’s not quite as nice as a desktop 3 feet away, sure, but that only matters for a few things, and it’s good enough for most work. The tradeoff can be worth it since you can now work from anywhere via laptop and connect to the same machine. No need for multiple setups, most of the machine management is taken care of, upgrades are seamless. For various reasons I haven’t been able to move permanently to a cloud workstation, but TBH I often want to.
All of the big clouds have regions throughout the world so you should be able to find one less than 100ms away fairly easily.
Then realistically in any company you'll need to interact with services and data in one specific location, so maybe it's better to be colocated there instead.
If your ping is that high, you might be doing it wrong. Even Starlink is usually less than half that, usually a lot less. Most Remote Desktop setups I’ve seen are fairly and surprisingly responsive. It’s not quite as nice as a desktop 3 feet away, sure, but that only matters for a few things, and it’s good enough for most work. The tradeoff can be worth it since you can now work from anywhere via laptop and connect to the same machine. No need for multiple setups, most of the machine management is taken care of, upgrades are seamless. For various reasons I haven’t been able to move permanently to a cloud workstation, but TBH I often want to.
Worse when the VPN they also force on you adds 300ms.
All of the big clouds have regions throughout the world so you should be able to find one less than 100ms away fairly easily.
Then realistically in any company you'll need to interact with services and data in one specific location, so maybe it's better to be colocated there instead.
I wonder if everyone on HN has just woken from a 20 year coma.