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640k … there is something poetic about that number.
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I figure that's how much RAM I can expend for Microsoft products.
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Can you explain how this works? Doesn’t this also stop you from connecting to it over ssh via vs code?
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Yes that's the point. If vscode didn't insist on installing potentially gigabytes of blobs then this wouldn't be necessary.

(I'm a vimmer anyway... And emacs is too bloated to fit too, conveniently.)

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> And emacs is too bloated to fit too, conveniently.

If you connect via ssh, you could use Tramp. It does not install emacs on the target, but instead use a somewhat permanent connection as a tunnel for most emacs commands (transparently). Works too with docker, podman, distrobox, etc,...

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yep, it's a shame vscode doesn't do something similar and instead copies a huge runtime (evidently, multiple times?!?) onto unsuspecting hosts.
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Sounds like a feature.
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