The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.

For me, as I’m replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven’t needed to touch since;

  • HAProxy
  • KeepaliveD

Not easy to learn, but once they’re running, they both go on forever.

  • Peasley@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 days ago

    Firefox + uBlock Origin + sponsorblock. Set it and forget it.

    I haven’t seen an advertisement or a sponsored segment on my desktop in over a decade, and same with my phone for several years. I’m astonished how willing most people are to put up with a constant barrage of ads coming from devices they own

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      can i interest you in an AdNauseam instead? It blocks ads, but it also “clicks” the links to poison the data.

      • Prathas@lemmy.zip
        3·
        6 days ago

        That’s literally what I was about to mention as well. I would just suggest that you change the clicking frequency from the default, which is every single ad, to just moderate, so that they don’t detect that you’re clearly sabotaging the system and may otherwise discount your clicks.

        But yeah, be sure to mention that AdNauseam is a uBO fork. There’s literally no reason not to move to it.

  • barzaria@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days ago

    Vim because its everywhere and is super powerful. It can even be used for some light scripting. GCC to make my own programs. Python as well, same thing and also portable. All the programs that come with mint and become part of the background like the terminal emulator. All of it, pretty awesome. Jellyfin has been a mainstay as well.

    • Jentu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Rockbox

      I desperately wish my Rockbox consistently worked without crashing or freezing once a week.

  • btsax@reddthat.com
    4·
    6 days ago

    Debian, uptime right now on my server is 59 days and that’s just because that was when we had a power outage longer than the UPS could keep up with

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      6 days ago

      A couple of decades back I was a Systems Manager at a small campus, and personally admin’d one of the servers. There was a server in the room that had a 3 year uptime when I left. May have been running longer after that.

      • btsax@reddthat.com
        1·
        6 days ago

        Just some small consumer grade APC that I got like ten years ago. It’s basically good enough to withstand quick blips but I have it set to send a shutdown command to the server when the batteries fall below 90% because they last about as long as it takes to cleanly power down the machine.

  • FoxAlive@lemmy.zip
    4·
    6 days ago

    Probably something that is so basic or integrated into the distros I use that I forget about it because every time I use it, it just works.