> How do you cope without the commercial Tailscale dashboard?

There are a couple open source dashboard options but right now only this one comes to mind: https://github.com/tale/headplane

there are a bunch of them: https://headscale.net/stable/ref/integration/web-ui/?h=web

The one I've deployed is https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui, which is basic but does what I need.