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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • If you’re just wanting the functionality of a Steamdeck on some other device, there are a variety of ways to accomplish that. If the other device is an Android, you can just install the Steam Link app and you’re off to the races. If it’s something else, depending on the device you can probably get Moonlight running on it, which will accomplish the same thing but will actually have more versatility than you’d get with a Steamdeck anyway.


  • I cook 6-7 nights a week for a household of four adults. I work a full-time job, but it’s WFH so I don’t have commute time. This is part of the strategy, but I could do and have done it while commuting to and from work each day as well.

    Each Monday, I plan out the meals for the week. I write them down. The meals are based on ingredients we have on hand as well as things which are on sale from the local ads, or which someone from the household has requested.

    If any ingredients are needed for the week which we don’t have, they are added to a mutual shopping list and someone picks them up while they are out.

    When I’m done with work, I relax for 30-60min and then it’s time for cooking. I bring out all the ingredients for the meal and get them set up near my cooking station. I bring out pans, cutting boards, utensils - whatever I feel I will need.

    I try to fill “dead” time with prep for other parts of the meal - that way time is used efficiently. Sometimes I’ll rope one of the others into cutting veggies or doing other prep, but i usually like to fly solo. Just some music to keep me moving and maybe a beer.

    As I’m cooking, I’m also cleaning up. Utensils which are no longer going to be used are getting rinsed and put into the dishwasher. Pans are getting rinsed and set aside for washing up later. Counters are getting wiped down as needed. The idea is to have as little to do at the end as possible.

    After the meal is ready, if stuff needs to cool, that’s a great time for a smoke out on the porch. Then back in to eat.

    Rinse and repeat. I enjoy cooking, it keeps me centered at the end of the day, and a good meal at least once per day is important. The key things I have learned are mainly to prep everything in advance which you can, to clean as you go, and to buy ingredients which overlap for multiple meals in a week.

    Bonus: Make a few extra helpings and freeze them. Freezer containers are cheap, and it’s generally only a small extra cost for the additional food. Then you have ready to go meals when you don’t feel like cooking.





  • After many years of tinkering, I finally gave in and converted my whole stack over to UnRAID a few years ago. You know what? It’s awesome, and I wish I had done it sooner. It automates so many of the more tedious aspects of home server management. I work in IT, so for me it’s less about scratching the itch and more about having competent hosting of services I consider mission-critical. UnRAID lets me do that easily and effectively.

    Most of my fun stuff is controlled through Docker and VMs via UnRAID, and I have a secondary external Linux server which handles some tasks I don’t want to saddle UnRAID with (PFSense, Adblocking, etc). The UnRAID server itself has 128GB RAM and dual XEON CPUs, so plenty of go for my home projects. I’m at 12TB right now but I was just on Amazon eyeing some 8TB drives…




  • I’ll second Ubooquity. I have a lot of experience with this, as I’ve been self-hosting my eBooks and Audiobooks for many years now. Ubooquity is not perfect, but if you’re willing to tinker with it, you can get it set up pretty nicely. There are themes, and the Plex theme actually makes it look really slick.

    Kavita is the new kid on the block for me - I have been testing it out as a general-purpose eReader but I’m not ready to give it my recommendation yet.