look into Kasm workspaces.. great way to spin up remote docker-based linux desktops, and works great as an AI dev environment that you can use wherever you happen to be. There is homedir persistence, and package persistence can be achieved via some extra configuration that allows for Brew homedir-based package persistence.

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/kasm

https://www.reddit.com/r/kasmweb/comments/1l7k2o8/workaround...