A Dashboard With a Mood Ring — Part 17 of Building a Resilient Home Server Series

Where We Left OffPart 16 was DNS redundancy, a floating IP, and the XRDP detour from hell. Heavy stuff. Two servers that can lose either half and keep answering. The infrastructure is, for once, genuinely resilient.So naturally I spent an evening making my dashboard cosplay as the bridge of the Enterprise.This one's a side quest. No redundancy, no failover, nothing load-bearing. Just me, Homepage, and a question that had no business taking up as much of my brain as it did: should my dashboard be LCARS, or optionally LCARS?The Rabbit HoleI run Homepage as my dashboard — it's been in the stack since Part 12, sitting there in plain stock dark the whole time. Functional, fine, completely anonymous. Meanwhile Capy UI had crept onto everything else I touch — Mastodon, Vivaldi, my editor, even this blog. The dashboard was the one holdout still wearing the default.That alone was reason enough to fix it. But the thought didn't stop there: what if I could switch? Capy on a normal day. LCARS…