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I know dashboards are super trendy, but I'd love to hear from those who are not using them. I personally use FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks. Perhaps there is a better overview solution, but I also love filtering what I see to not feel overwhelmed. or spammed, by information.

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[–] lucas@startrek.website 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Surely, if you forget it's even running, you aren't using it, and it doesn't matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It was often the automated things that I completely forgot about. I have ADHD, so if it's not accessible in a reasonable way (where I don't have to always google specific commands to find basic info on my own machine), then it gets lost in the memory hole. I know that a service is running, but would forget what it is.

These days I have it pretty down-pat. Hardware is labeled, static IPs are set for "critical" VMs and LXCs (because I'm shit at DNS and still trying to get that down), and things are actually somewhat documented in an easy-to-find place.