Researchers frequently want to be able to access a second computer that works like a normal computer (think a virtual desktop rather than a virtual machine + command line) just to offload some computation. This post shows how. The basic idea here is you don’t want to gum up your own laptop with lots of lengthy computations1 but you don’t feel confident just using a virtual machine via the command line, or using visual studio code remotely, but you want a virtual desktop that feels a bit s...
