I am consideirng going pure ipad + ssh an AWS instance as a dev environment. i already just use ipad + ssh local machine. would have as much automation as possible to spin things up/down when developing. I don't know how I'd set this up to be nice and seamless just yet.

Pay for 3 years of AWS savings plans to make it cheap. Perhaps run a permanent instance for small things, make a setup that lets me spin up super power machines when i actually want to build.

Most of the time I'm at my ipad remoting in Im not actually compiling, just editing. I can just edit locally and pay for the few seconds/minutes it takes to build..

because honestly after about 3 years i always want to upgrade

and i can get windows that are completely functional for me on remote monitors with ipad now. just starting to wonder why im paying for physical compute power but 99% of the time browsing the web and editing code but not building it.