Choose and free have different meanings to different people. I chose to have kids. Is the time i spend with thwm free time? Yes and no.

Tldr: Put up and shut up

Point?

Trying to understand why OP talks about VDI clients (basically dumb terminals), but then complains that they don't have enough RAM to run apps locally.

Good question. I misread the op the first time. So yeah whats the advantage of stuffing more on the thin client. Unless he is also using the thin client to run stuff he cant run remotely.

Just a terminology mistake on my part. I don't know what to call the virtualized OS I'm remoting into. We just refer to it as VDI, but that's more general.

What's the term for the instance I connect to? I guess I should have just called it the VM. My VM only has 4GB of RAM and one core and I'm supposed to write and test (deploy) decent sized applications on it.

Run!

Any Australia anecdotes would be heartily appreciated. A falling AU dollar and stagnent dev wages make the US look so well paid. Almost to the point i could get paid more with a remote US job let alone an onsite one.

Oh dear! Can you BYO laptop?

I heard they went pretty well. Some made it through but others were less fortunate.

Just use vanilla js! Or neapolitan if you prefer.

+1 for the spreadsheet

Yes and i dont use Arabic numerals. Whats it in Roman?