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.

It really doesn't matter if they have anyone left that knows anything about anything. All reports thus far is that anyone not giving the ol' "aye captain" any time Elon says anything gets shitcanned. I'm sure there is someone there that probably went "but, sir..." before immediately getting shut down.

Now if you had to guess how often I remember that there is a keyboard shortcut that does this, but don't remember what it is, and do remember that I can just press up 30-70 times...

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.

I use DDG as my primary, and my general feeling is that I don't mind some advertising to make money, but Google is objectively bad these days. At the time I started using DDG, Google was still probably the better choice in terms of search results. These days, DDG is competitive, but more importantly, I don't have to scroll past half a page of ads masquerading as results.

Exactly. Lots of house rules at this table.

This, pretty much. Pretty hard to be 100% game accurate and make a good movie. Appreciated where they took license, and where they stuck to some (often, obscure) lore.

Got tired of trying to figure out what service to watch a show on this week. Back to sailing the 7 seas…

I'll also toss out that if you privacy and non-annoyance are your goals with an out of the box voice assistant, the only real option these days is a HomePod. I built my smart home with combination of Echos throughout the house, and I pretty much regret it now. I wasn't as worried about privacy, but these things are so fucking annoying these days. "Start a timer for 5 minutes." "Okay, do you want to play some bullshit trivia game while you're timer is going?" No, never. Ever. I mean, at least she'll still turn the lights on without spouting back something dumb, but that's just about it. Probably what I'll be doing now is still using the Alexholes as a speaker target with the mute button on all of the time (better spotify integration) and start replacing with siri balls.

Lest we forget how dumb reddit is, they didn't have a mobile strategy in 2014, which necessitated buying Alien Blue.

If you look at the history of reddit, it has succeeded entirely in spite of management decision. Gotta say, even being on the site since 07-08, even I got this wrong. I expected reddit to do something dumb, I just didn't expect them to do the most dumb thing.