I think chromebooks are pretty locked down these days. The old ones you can unlock and install Linux on the bare metal are underpowered. 4g RAM and 64g storage typically. I use one as a touch screens for home Assistant and to run Pihole.

I would recommend a Think Pad with 4 cores and 8g RAM from eBay. Should be plenty for your use case and cheap. I have a 10 or 12 year old idea pad that I use about the same way you do and it still running great with PopOs.

Sorry if this is not correct, I’m not on Apple, but I think ssh is built in. Maybe iPad is different. Here’s a link that may help https://www.servermania.com/kb/articles/ssh-mac

I really like AB. I run it in a container and access it through a VPN. The only problem I’ve run into is that it sometimes won’t download new episodes of podcasts. I have to restart the container or manually check. Anyone know what’s going on?

Use shift+control+v to paste. Shift+control+c to copy in the terminal. It’s this way because control+c in the terminal is to break out of the currently running process.

https://github.com/legendu-net/docker-vscode-server

You can run vscode in a docker container. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers

https://github.com/cdot/Xanado

Scrabble web app

Try Remmina