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But why? Genuinely want to know what one might use this for. I can imagine it would be cool for a remote dev environment but the selling point would have to be that it’s far cheaper than the alternative.

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Simpler, easy to use, more enjoyable and fun are also valid reasons

What’s difficult to use in Hetzner or DigitalOcean?

One thing can be simpler than another without either of them being difficult.

Apart from the payment part, this could be used entirely from a machine without a GUI. You can do the same with others using Terraform or aws-cli but it requires setup first.

What about SSH requires GUI?

I mean I SSH to my Hetzner Ubuntu fun box usually from Powershell or PuTTY, but sometimes I SSH from a Debian server without any GUI.

> I SSH to my Hetzner Ubuntu fun box

How did you provision your Hetzner Ubuntu fun box in the first place? That's the part that usually needs a GUI

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