..is destruction of private or public property. I might think "how sad" (excessive cameras in low crime public areas) or "what a waste of money" (speeding cameras) or "good this place needed a camera, too many people getting mugged there" or "if this were my store, I'd have cameras too."

You do not need a graphical desktop environment on the server; you only need the X11 libraries and basic utilities. On Debian, that means x11-common and x11-utils with their dependencies. There's no xterm, xclock, etc, let alone a a window manager like xfce or worse yet a full blown environment like GNOME or KDE. The actual DBA should connect in, run the utilities, and then be done with it. They can use whatever gui and whatever X11 server they want. The bulk of the load is on their desktop, not the server.

I found the Ergon 3 to be a *much* more comfortable chair, especially if you're a bigger person. I bought mine while working on a long-standing consulting job. It made finishing that job so much easier... Well worth the money. (~$800)