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We nearly lost months of work to heat and a bad SSD copy
We've been building our mobile RTS game from a campervan, driving across the US for 11 months. My husband codes, I handle design — and the road taught us some infrastructure lessons the hard way.
*If you work from a laptop on the road, or you're just curious what actually breaks when you try to do serious work from a van, this might be useful.*
The scariest one was overheating. It corrupted a project copy mid-transfer, and because we only had space for one or two full backups on the drive, we came dangerously close to losing everything. Laptop cooling in a van is not optional — heat may cause silent corruption before you even see errors.
Power was the other constant fight. Solar + a battery bank works, until a cloudy day kills your charge and you lose most of a workday. We ended up adding an inverter, but still had to drive around just to charge enough for laptops and the fridge.
And don't cheap out on storage or internet — slow/no upload means no cloud backup, and a nearly-full drive causes silent file issues that only surface later.
Curious how other van-lifers/remote workers handle power and hardware reliability on the road... Any setups that actually held up?
If you're a digital nomad dev (or just curious how road life goes), happy to go into more detail on any of this.
#lifestyle
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We've been building our mobile RTS game from a campervan, driving across the US for 11 months. My husband codes, I handle design — and the road taught us some infrastructure lessons the hard way.
*If you work from a laptop on the road, or you're just curious what actually breaks when you try to do serious work from a van, this might be useful.*
The scariest one was overheating. It corrupted a project copy mid-transfer, and because we only had space for one or two full backups on the drive, we came dangerously close to losing everything. Laptop cooling in a van is not optional — heat may cause silent corruption before you even see errors.
Power was the other constant fight. Solar + a battery bank works, until a cloudy day kills your charge and you lose most of a workday. We ended up adding an inverter, but still had to drive around just to charge enough for laptops and the fridge.
And don't cheap out on storage or internet — slow/no upload means no cloud backup, and a nearly-full drive causes silent file issues that only surface later.
Curious how other van-lifers/remote workers handle power and hardware reliability on the road... Any setups that actually held up?
If you're a digital nomad dev (or just curious how road life goes), happy to go into more detail on any of this.
#lifestyle
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