I wrote down every service I run, what it costs to run, and which ones I would actually miss if the machine went into the sea tomorrow, and the third column was much shorter than the first

Nineteen services. Four of them would be missed within a day, three more within a month, and the remaining twelve I keep running because deleting things feels like admitting something.

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I have been putting this off for a year. This is the push, thanks.

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Any numbers on the tail? Medians hide the part I care about.

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I would love to see this repeated on slower hardware.

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The last paragraph is the whole post and it took me two reads to see it.

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