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I've yet to find an offline desktop which can be secured, let alone work on it from a remote location. Cant people detect when their offline machines are being

• adrian_b 3y ago
  If the desktop is insecure, it is always possible to put it behind a secure firewall implemented with a small computer, e.g. a NUC-like computer or one of the many cheap, small and fanless computers with multiple Ethernet ports that are available now exactly for implementing firewalls, routers or other similar network appliances. Of course, configuring correctly a secure firewall requires some expertise, but it should not be too difficult to find online resources or someone willing to help. I have done exactly like this for accessing remotely my desktop during the last two decades, without any problems whatsoever.
• tracker1 3y ago
  It's much like anything else... I run my desktop under Linux, keep it upodated, have SSH on a non-standard port with only public/private key access enabled for my account. I access it over wireguard running on my home server. Wireguard is the only port available through my firewall. So I can connect to my home network over wireguard, and SSH to my desktop. VS Code + Remoting extensions work great for this... almost like editing locally, but running remotely. The integrated terminal in VS Code is invaluable when doing this.