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Since nobody has said yet, I use screen pretty heavily. Want to run a long running task, starting it from your phone? Run screen to create a detachable session then the long running command. You can then safely close out of your terminal or detach with ctrl a, d and continue in your terminal doing something else. screen -r to get back to it.
In a similar vein,
nohuplets you send tasks to the background and seems to be everywhere.You can't mention
nohupwithout at least mentioningkill -9orpkillto slay the monster you created you madmanEyyy, don't hate, this is how I start all my work programs. That command is really nice and creates all work programs as children of a single terminal session for easy closing later.
Sometimes I'll just reboot the entire damn machine just to be safe ;)
shutdown -r now