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banana_giraffe ◴[] No.25616781[source]
One of the things they mentioned briefly in a little documentary on the making of Soul is that all of the animators work on fairly dumb terminals connected to a back end instance.

I can appreciate that working well when people are in the office, but I'm amazed that worked out for them when people moved to work from home. I have trouble getting some of my engineers to have a stable connection stable enough for VS Code's remote mode. I can't imagine trying to use a modern GUI over these connections.

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1. pstrateman ◴[] No.25616815[source]
I think most connections could be massively improved with a VPN that supports Forward Error Correction, but there doesn't seem to be any that do.

Seems very strange to me.