I had been thinking about setting myself up with a way to work from home in a disconnected fashion. Most of the places I’ve worked at in the past required me to remote into the work desktop, which is a good idea if both sides have 100% uptime on their network connection and no issues with them being affected by adverse weather. Which in reality means that the connections tended to be unstable if the weather dictated that one really, really wanted to work from home on a particular day because snowfall was horizontal, for example. My current employer is more enlightened in this matter so my suggestion of locking all the necessary tools and source code inside a VM that would allow me to work from home even if the Internet connection was unavailable at either end was given the go ahead. Given that my desktop here is plenty powerful for most development tasks (it’s an older Intel Mac Pro with dual Xeons), this should be an idea solution.