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Crap, I'm in the process of setting up a headless Ubuntu server on my desktop to eek the maximum amount of CPU/GPU/RAM out of it for AI stuff and was planning on controlling it via my laptop.
I don't particularly care about privacy on that desktop, but would my ignorance of security hardening open me up to rogue hackers using my machine for their own purposes if I were to set it up so I could control it remotely (not just hardwired)?
For just one person limited use like that, i'd just use a VPN for whenever you're away from home.
But you could learn a bit about hardening and expose it anyways if you want, I personally just want to be able to access my stuff from anywhere so I spend a decent amount of time hardening.
It's not too hard, you really just need a certain baseline to defend against script kiddies and bot mass scanners. Unless you're a business or a high value target or something that'll attract the skills of "real" hackers