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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I do this on the weekend, in fact, just did very similar today. I can give two tips:

    If you microwave potatoes first (poke holes) to par-cook them, then you just need to get them crispy. I usually don’t, and just start with potatoes at medium in before the oil has really heated , stirring every 5 minutes for the first 20 or so, then more often when they get to crisping. The best is definitely using leftover baked potatoes or roasted potatoes from the night before.

    Second, if you have an air fryer, that’s increasingly my go to. We have a basket style, I coat in a little oil or use veg spray, and roast around 350 for 10-15, and then turn it up to 400 once the potatoes are tender for color.

    Neither of these are weekdays for me, but I can throw this together on weekends where I mostly don’t have to do anything.





  • I have a few things:

    UnRaid server:

    • Guacamole (though not really doing anything with it at the moment.)
    • Wireguard VPN
    • SpeedTest (forget the exact name, does period speed tests and lets me see over time how my connection is doing.)
    • DuckDNS
    • Heimdall

    VM server (esxi 6):

    • Windows machine for those times when you just need something
    • pi hole
    • sharing VM. Dockerized all of the *arrs, sabnzbd, qbittorrent
    • plex server. This will probably eventually move off its own VM, but it’s there for legacy/laziness reasons.
    • Minecraft server, though this is getting dusty as my kids aren’t into it like they used to be.

    Dell Wyse thin client:

    • Home assistant

    Pretty simple. I still use iCloud services for most of the other basics (email, call, contacts, iCloud Drive, etc) mostly just because I don’t trust my home connection enough to rely on it, and I’d rather the things that actually effect whether or not I can work aren’t my problem.