It certainly is pretty to look at though

I use Homarr and initially created a really complex dash, but I’ve since whittled it down to just the bare essentials as a homepage.

Links to my most used web pages and self hosted services, and a couple of vital metrics that I would need to act upon quickly.

For everything else I have Grafana dashboards I can dip into as I need to.

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.

Its my homepage for any new tab, and most of the time I just use it as a shortcut to get to the tool I want. Latency is ok for a quick view of status, but I get alerts, so I don't really use/care about that as a feature.

But the calendar I use all the time. Upcoming shows, events for the family, etc.

I cannot get these type of homepages except to have done a thing and feel happy about it.

There is much merit in doing a thing if only for the experience of doing it.

that thing in between my ears

Yes, well, some of us have dented brains. Plus I like a good UI. I'd rather just click an icon.

I keep trying to use these, install and configure them, then never touch them again. I run across them when I'm roaming around on my one of my docker servers a year later and nuke them.

I'd love to find something that sticks, though. Hasn't happened yet.

Yea, dashboards are useless. Eventually you learn alerts are all that matter.

Thank you for saying that. I always wonder if veterans really need to know that much information at all times. As a hobbyist, I only care about when things don't work. My homepage is just a bunch of icons. I could have put them in the browser as a bookmark but it's just not convenient. Then I set up Dockhand to alert me when things go wrong. That's it.

I share this sentiment. I have Beszel running on my homelab but I so rarely use it.

Consequence of living in the state that gave the world the KKK. It's an official state holiday, so it shows up in a lot of holiday presets by default if your location is TN. Pretty shit situation all around, but I get why a TN resident would have it without wanting it. I've had it in my calendar before :/

Damn it just creeps up on you every year, doesn't it? I need to get to work on my parade float ASAP! Does anyone have any spare pillowcases?

It's called "Homepage". Essentially a configuration file driven dashboard: https://gethomepage.dev/

Yes

Most calender apps are frontends for caldav...

I have these two bookmarked to check out later, but haven't tested either yet: Davis, Luna.

It’s there. Far left above the calendars at the very bottom.

My partner and I quite like Mealie. It doesn't import 100% perfectly like you say, but it does probably 90% of the work.