Paywall
You are correct, LaTeX isn’t very fast in general, but my 8 core ryzen server with 8GB of ram assigned to the vm running overleaf is usually twice as fast as the official overleaf unpaid tier. The specs you listed should produce much better results than the official overleaf. This seems weird to me.
As an example, I just compiled my thesis, which is about 60 pages, lots of references, pictures, and generally a heavy document. On my server it takes about 35 seconds, the official overleaf just times out (pay or we won’t compile your document).
I will do that, once OP contacts me and gives me some measurements.
Wait until you hear about WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator)
I can never remember which is which
Live Kit may be what you are looking for. Haven’t tried this myself, but it looks straight forward. You basically turn an already installed system into a live distro.
I am thinking about .Xresources, for example, and gtk things and other files in .config. I didn’t mean the DE specific dotfiles.
I just assume you are in the US and i can’t speak for the situation there. Here in the EU there are plenty of options. Sure it’s a bit more expensive sometimes, but often times it’s not.
And the convenience, I get it. Amazon customer support is unbeatable. From what I hear it is getting worse, though.
For me in the EU it is possible, but sometimes a struggle. The ideological thing makes it worth it for me, and if there are more and more people that don’t use Amazon (as often), there may be a time when it dies.
The only items I bought on Amazon since coronavirus hit are a phone charger, some shirts that aren’t available anywhere else and a pedal for a sewing machine.
So I can’t tell you ~~an alternative~~ the alternative you are looking for, but for me it is a lot of small to large online stores and some offline stores as well. There isn’t quite something as convenient that has virtually everything out there, afaik.
I’m not sure if you are being serious, but for obvious reasons NO
If you start comparing it with skype we get to a point where we are basically comparing shit to vomit.
Retiring
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For added convenience, skip the VPN and get a seedbox. If you consider the cost savings in hardware you spend even less.