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Woodworking and rock climbing scratch the problem solving itch in different ways, on top of the creative (in woodworking) and physical exercise (rock climbing) itches common in most people.

Ah. That’ll do it.

And desktop mode doesn’t help?

Zygist is a way of hiding the fact that you have root access . Likely your bank changed absolutely nothing.

That it is, but at least it’s not sending your card details to me.

There’s also the fact that on Win/Mac/Linux, you’re interacting with the bank via a browser and not a bespoke app.

That’s actually got a solid reason behind it.

It’s because the OSK is just another program as far as Android is concerned. It can’t directly look into the application, per Android specifications, but it CAN record key presses, even for passwords. It even receives context hints based on the metadata on the input box, so it knows when you’re putting in a password. Then it can send your data off to unknown servers.

Linux does the same. It’s the orange bar in the group output

It’s very, very useful.

For one thing, its a ridiculously easy way to get cross-distro support working for whatever it is you’re doing, no matter the distro-specific dependency hell you have to crawl through in order to get it set up.

For another, rather related reason, it’s an easy way to build for specific distros and distro versions, especially in an automated fashion. Don’t have to fuck around with dual booting or VMs, just use a Docker command to fire up the needed image and do what you gotta do.

Cleanup is also ridiculously easy too. Complete uninstallation of a service running in Docker simply involves removal of the image and any containers attached to it.

A couple of security rules you should bear in mind:

1. expose only what you need to. If what you’re doing doesn’t need a network port, don’t provide one. The same is true for files on your host OS, RAM, CPU allocation, etc.
2. never use privileged mode. Ever. If you need privileged mode, you are doing something wrong. Privileged mode exposes everything and leaves your machine ripe for being compromised, as root if you are using Docker.
3. consider podman over docker. The former does not run as root.

Google drive isn’t self-hosted though,

Doesn’t matter to most people, and for those it does matter to, there’s OwnCloud and a ton of other options

and they charge for any significant amount of storage.

Storage costs money, dude, and GDrive don’t cost much.

I’m running Ubuntu server, so there is no desktop to access via rdp, and I don’t have to open an ssh port to access this.

If you are worried about opening SSH to the internet, you should be absolutely fucking terrified of opening a browser based admin portal to the net. SSH is fucking bulletproof compared to any web admin console you can think of.

Why are these not more popular?

Because the use cases for these are very niche.

Those who simply want access to their files will find Google drive much easier.

Those who need advanced access will use RDP or SSH instead

You can, but that completely negates the reasons why you’d want to have a repo system in the first place. You gotta do the legwork to get updates, for example.

The main reason is that it is completely controlled by Canonical, with no way to add alternative repos.