Warning: Residency in the state of Texas may result in the inability to function as a decent human being.

I’m definitely not a Linux expert, but I found that being logged in locally and remotely with the same user account will cause this. Try setting up unique accounts for local\remote.

I honestly don’t think it matters at this point. The company that publishes the app has all of your data. Almost any big publisher will sell all of the data they collect. Once it is sold, it can be resold. Even if it isn’t sold, high profile hacks are dime-a-dozen these days. Assume anything you put into an electronic device will, eventually, make it’s way into an open database someday.

High quality zip ties with a reasonable amount of the machine actually inside the case. I would say this is above average.