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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Dry-brined, reverse-seared ribeye for me. I like me that extra juicy fat running through the ribeye.

    Dry-brine (fairly generous salting with kosher salt) the night before, leave uncovered in the fridge overnight on wire rack over a pan, toss them in the oven at its lowest setting (150F for mine) mid afternoon for a couple hours until they’re at the desired doneness (use a thermometer!), then sear just prior to meal time either in a cast iron pan or on the sear burner on my grill.

    I prefer this over sous vide because the dry outside lends to better searing and there’s no plastic waste. With just salt and pepper, the flavour of the beef really comes through. I do beef roasts this way too.




  • Re: VPN and Wireguard, I was looking into doing the same on my unifi router, but came across Twingate (through a networkchuck video) and decided to try that instead, being a bit of a networking noob. It’s almost too easy…you can share individual resources or whole networks with user and device control over each. I think you get 5 users and 10 resources in the free plan. I’d recommend looking into it.

    I had been pondering Nabucasa for external Home Assistant access but am very happy I found this. Now my wife can have remote access to HA and Plex and I can access the whole network remotely.


  • I found tteck’s Proxmox Helper Scripts great for getting my proxmox experience off the ground. I’m similar to you with just recently getting started while having limited network experience.

    I also just set up Twingate for external access following a networkchuck video and love how easy it was. I was just going to do a vpn on my unifi router but this was a more streamlined solution.

    As far as services, I’ve got:

    • Plex
    • Home Assistant (a huge but fantastic rabbit hole)
    • pihole
    • A docker LXC running Portainer, a transmission+OpenVPN container, SearXNG, and Twingate
    • Trilium (notes app similar to Evernote or OneNote)
    • Nextcloud (kind of frustrated with this one, mobile auto-upload doesn’t want to ever work properly)
    • BlueIris NVR
    • Heimdall dashboard

    I don’t watch enough TV to justify setting up the *arr services and prefer to find my own Linux ISOs if I’m interested in a particular one. Otherwise I’m quite happy with my setup, all running on an old desktop PC.




  • While I agree that assistance in dying should not be used to offset a lack of other necessary care, like mental health, addictions (which I believe are disqualifiers for MAID), or disability, the article provided only examples of health care professionals offering the service to people who had severly diminished quality of life as an option of part of their care. I think it’s a stretch to say these were examples of coersion. The decision is left solely to the patient, and I think their family’s account can often cloud any reporting of what the patient’s wishes actually are.

    Anecdotally, the health professionals I know say there are far too many families, and ocassionally doctors who think they’re superheros, who wish to prolong their relative’s/patient’s life for the sole purpose of delaying death. People, like Mr. Nichols’ family, will say he’s got a great quality of life, but picture yourself in his shoes. Deaf for most of your life, now vision loss, seizures, your body essentially withering away. He was suffering, and clearly, he wanted to end it. Several inquiries noted he fully qualified for and received MAID as he wished, even though it may not have been the wish of his family.

    I do think it would be useful to have a review panel for more complex cases, like Dr Marmoreo suggests. But, I think the majority of cases where the family might raise concerns are cases where they are prioretizing their wishes above those of the patient actually seeking the care, rather than a professional wantonly pushing MAID for no particular reason.