https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit with https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp gives metrics but too little compared to what you are asking for. The historical data is simply cpu usage, memory usage, disk i/o and network usage.
pcp can also be used with grafana. https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/performancecopilot-pcp-app/

Cockpit example:

Ah, I always associate my .txts with notepad++ - notepad.exe is only started from Win+R as a temporary clipboard.

Have they removed the option to disable the alias and bring back the old notepad.exe?

I definitely understand your view and personally don’t see a way to disrupt the market either. I just hope someone else finds a way.

Ah - there’s your problem. VC companies simply don’t do that.

They most certainly do and then either cash in by selling to the next more risk adverse VC or sells it at a loss if they believe the company failed to disrupt the market.

When is the next VC driven company that focuses more on growth than profit coming? I feel Netflix and all the other streaming services are ripe to be overtaken in the same way Netflix overtook tv channel packaging.

Yeah, my morning brain was trying to say that when it is used as a tool by someone that can validate the output and act upon it then it’s often good. When it is used by someone who can’t, or won’t, validate the output and simply uses it as the finished product then it usually isn’t any good.

Regarding your friend learning to use the terminal I’d still recommend validating the output before using it. If it’s asking genAI about flags for ls then sure no big deal, but if a genAI ends up switching around sda and sdb in your dd command resulting in a wiped drive you only got yourself to blame for not checking the manual.

I find that an extremely simplified way of finding out whether the use of an LLM is good or not is whether the output from it is used as a finished product or not. Here the human uses it to identify possible errors and then verify the LLM output before acting and the use of AI isn’t mentioned at all for the corrections.

The only danger I see is that errors the LLM didn’t find will continue to go undiscovered, but they probably would be undiscovered without the use of the LLM too.

Honestly I’d like to say that docker is pre-built legos. Instead of putting it all together yourself you get it all built and ready to go.

Yeah, email at home sucks. Even if you wanna selfhost you wanna do it with a static ip and an rdns pointer to the email server and good luck getting that at home.

If you go for openwrt instead of librecmc the amount of guides and docs will skyrocket.
Compatible hardware for openwrt is found here:
https://toh.openwrt.org/?view=normal
A tip is to sort on the 5.0GHz table so all the devices that support ac and ax (newer wifi standards) are shown first.
They have a lot of good guides here:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-quick-start/start

Regarding home server you would want to decide on the host operating system first. Examples are proxmox (hypervisor, controlled mainly through a web ui), a standard linux server with kvm/qemu and docker, openmediavault (NAS operating system) or Windows 11 with HyperV (please don’t).

First thing after that is to figure out of to make and restore backups of the system. Knowing that you can restore everything to how it was last night makes tinkering a lot less frustrating. Proxmox has builtin backup systems, with linux I like BORG Backup.

Regarding services you will want to read up on dockers and find a docker management system you like. I run portainer, others swear by dockge and yet some prefer the command line.

Regarding video streaming; If you don’t a lifetime license for Plex I would go for Jellyfin. Plex free is continuing to lose, not gain, functions as of now.

Immich is popular for photo storage.

Regarding game servers I think https://pterodactyl.io/ is popular to make it simpler but you can probably find a plain docker image to host minecraft. If you wanna mod mc I know Pterodactyl makes it simpler to add mods on the server.