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I'm curious how everyone documents their core/critical configs to allow the non-technical in our homes work with it if needed. For instance if I'm on work travel and the Pi-hole goes down for whatever reason my wife wouldn't be able to use pretty much anything online. I can remote in and fix it but that could be hours/a day or two later. Same then for the proxmox stack that everything runs on.
Along the same lines, how are folks documenting for EOL? It may not be a happy thought but we are all going to go someday, so what is your plan and how have you ensured loved ones can access/save important data?
It's not just for my home server but for EOL or other issues I used bitwarden emergency access options for passwords. Of anything happens to me my wife can request access to my vault and if I don't deny it in a certain timeframe she will have full access to it.
I did that after my brother in law got in an accident and fell into a coma. I'm very grateful he had all his password saved in chrome on his unlocked laptop because if not it would have made the period insanely more difficult for my sister.
Simple things like paying the bills would I been insanely more difficult and stressful and you don't need extra stress in this period.
My solution is other people in the house don't rely on anything in my setup, other than the router which runs some basic telemetry and fraud/phishing domain blocking but that's all.