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[–] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most are definitely just showing off; "Look at how many photos I have stored," "I have so many podcasts and ebooks," "Bow to me, mortals!"

On the flip, some are useful. PeaNUT gives UPS off/on line power status at a glance, Jellyfin shows active streams iirc, FreshRSS shows if there are unread feeds, Portainer shows if any containers have stopped, etc. Jellyfin is a big one since I don't have to get into the WebUI to see if updates or whatever are going to interrupt someone. Otherwise I'm mostly in agreement and just use links in lieu of widgets and silly API calls.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess I just feel like if I need to know something (something is offline etc) then I need a notification, I don't want to have to be checking a dashboard. I use Uptime Kuma for this.

I see your point with Jellyfin, but I also have the clicks to find active streams as muscle memory and it's not needed that often so I don't think I'd go setting up a dashboard just for that.

[–] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, Jellyfin was my best example. I've got the motions memorized, to get to the admin panel, as well but Homepage is my homepage so it saves those few seconds. I agree otherwise about urgent messages. Important stuff of mine hits a Discord webhook for now.

Eventually I'll set up some other alternative to get push notifications. I took the time to write a few half-assed cogs for pycord, and I enjoy(ed) the process and using them, but I don't really trust the platform. I might need to give good old IRC a go again. I'm sure some Android client can do push notifications on a specific channel/sender basis.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago

I'm using ntfy for notifications. I have some other notifications go through it too so it's not only used for that.