I'm getting disconnected from the server due to either OOM or too many spawned processes
microsoft/vscode-remote-release#10804 suggests that it may be telemetry?
Disabled all telemetry
Also seeing javascript 'node' processes as the culprit
Disabling telemetry didn't seem to matter. I've started using salloc to get an allocation and connecting straight to that node.
Emily got error:
could not establish connection to 'node': the remote host oes not meet the pre-requisites for running the VS Code server.
Solution: install older version of vscode :-| due to OS being too old
Starting with VS Code release 1.99 (March 2025), the prebuilt servers distributed by VS Code are only compatible with Linux distributions that are based on glibc 2.28 or later. These include for example, Debian 10, RHEL 8, or Ubuntu 20.04.
To get files to open instead of edit when double clicked: Options > Preferences > Panels > Double-Click > Operation to perform on double-click: Open
Find the item number, which is at the end of the download link
Put that into this: wget -O my_file.qs "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/item_number_here"