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[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Running "top" is also some common thing.

So, when I got a bunch of free serial WYSE terminals ages ago, I propped them up on the shelf, daisy-chained them, wrote a wrapper to be able to address all four screens through one UART, and had them display (and regularly update) system stats. Just because.