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>impossible to do tests without ram
my whole post was about the shift to VDI use, you just need your pc to connect to the company's vdi provider and that's it.
pic rel are my two remote VDIs, one is the normie pc with barely any ram (the vdis provided for normal office workers to just use edge/office apps) and the other is an actual dev workstation with 64gb ram and 16 cores assigned to it.
In the past I also used the 'citrix' platform, which provided a similar vdi environment (through pure RDP from what I remember) and in my 2nd to last gig it was vmware vcenter provided VDIs.
In the last ten years these 3 companies I worked for only provided a shitty laptop, completely locked down and only used to connect to the actual remote work pc.
Maybe in your sector it isn't like this, I mainly worked in telco, now focusing exclusively on AI, but I felt this shift in these past years. Maybe at smaller companies they find it easier to just buy big beefy PCs, since setting up proper remote work environments is costly and a pain in the ass to do maintenance for.