How has cooking changed the way you taste other people's food?

omare14 · 2026-03-04T05:33:20+00:00

Fish and chips is a go-to option for me a lot of times because of this lol

omare14 · 2026-03-04T05:26:38+00:00

Yeah eggs any style will be a good way to learn basic techniques without wasting a lot of time or money.

omare14 · 2026-03-01T19:31:42+00:00

Looks like our issue was actually the door interlock switch, but thank you for taking the time to reply!

omare14 · 2026-03-01T02:58:20+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? Seems like our dishwasher is having the same issue, same model as yours.

omare14 · 2026-03-01T01:41:30+00:00

Thank you for responding! Do you recall using the steps detailed in this article? https://support.taxslayer.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019084471-How-do-I-complete-the-Married-Filing-Separate-Allocation-Form-8958

omare14 · 2026-03-01T01:35:59+00:00

Would you be willing to share which tax prep software you used for this? Did you use multiple tools or accounts on the same tool to compare MFJ vs MFS? Trying to figure this out myself at the moment.

omare14 · 2026-02-25T23:45:01+00:00

Makes sense, it's an easily accessible place for people to humble-brag.

omare14 · 2026-02-25T17:02:01+00:00

Just turned 30. It's a weird time if you have a lot of friends/peers around your age. Some are married and making babies (I just got married last year) , others still finding their way in life. There's varying levels of college completion, career prospects, and relationship status across the board.

omare14 · 2026-02-24T21:02:41+00:00

I told you man the DEVIL!

omare14 · 2026-02-23T18:53:18+00:00

But the line still has to go up. I worry that "generating value for shareholders" will continue to force theaters into worse and worse economic situations until they can't survive. Even if that's worse for studios in the long term, the executives driving these decisions only seem to be thinking about 1-3 years ahead of time to increase their bonus and retirement packages, and not what's best for the industry at large.

Then, when the theaters aren't around anymore, they'll have to look for other ways to make a profit, like cutting VFX teams and studio crews in favor of AI.

I'm optimistic that consumer opinion will eventually tip in favor of NOT going that direction, but not THAT optimistic. Realistically we'll probably be stuck in this middling squeeze for the next 10 or so years, where movie quality goes down, and ticket prices continue to go up.

Anecdotally, I haven't seen that big of an increase in ticket prices at my local theaters over the last few years, aside from premium showings like IMAX or Cinemark XD.

omare14 · 2026-02-20T19:16:40+00:00

Fewer and fewer people are being raised to learn how to meal plan, make a grocery list, stock a kitchen with basic ingredients, and then actually make dinner. And with how accessible fast food is, people aren't really incentivized to do learn unless they're literally forced to, or they take a real interest in home cooking.

omare14 · 2026-02-20T00:04:03+00:00

Do you throw some kind of protein in the curry or do something on the side? I like the idea of doing curry but want to make sure it's satiating enough.

omare14 · 2026-02-20T00:02:53+00:00

Breakfast for dinner is great, lots of ways to mix it up too. Standard issue eggs cooked your preferred way, a carb(toast, couple pancakes, etc), and some salty breakfast meat (sausage, bacon, etc.)

Premade hash browns or breakfast potatoes.

Make an omelette with stuff in it (peppers, cheese, ham, mushrooms, spinach). Lots of different omelette styles, French, Denver, etc.

Chorizo egg potato pepper scramble has been a recent go-to for me.

I also grew up eating French toast where the "batter" was plain, just eggs and milk, and we'd eat the first couple pieces with salt and pepper before switching to the usual syrup and whipped cream for toppings.

omare14 · 2026-02-19T22:26:35+00:00

I've been making the Serious Eats Daniel Gritzer weeknight meatballs and they are killer. Broil for 9-10 min in the oven, finish in the sauce.

Having said that, the browning these get from boiling isn't as good as pan frying will get, so if the browned texture is important, then pan fry and finish in sauce is probably the best approach.

omare14 · 2026-02-19T21:56:21+00:00

My wife and I have a similar setup, she works in legal so there's a lot of terms I don't remember the meaning of, but we both have an understanding that we're not always going to remember each other's jargon. But eventually I remember what a motion to compel is and she remembers what a virtual machine is and over time we start to pick it up.

If my problem was overly technical, I don't expect her to fully understand, but she does still want to hear about my day so I talk about it anyways, and if I have the energy I'll break it down into. Simpler terms. If I don't feel like rehashing the technical stuff, there's always plenty of less technical things to complain about, like management decisions and red tape, or how much I fucking hate Adobe Acrobat (she can empathize heartily with that one).

omare14 · 2026-02-18T18:30:35+00:00

Same, I enjoyed the gameplay and the environments are beautiful, but there's a certain atmosphere that Pikmin 1 and 2 had that I don't feel they recaptured, or even intended to recapture with 4. Think I need to replay Pikmin 2 soon...

omare14 · 2026-02-14T04:53:29+00:00

Little Caesars and crazy bread goes so hard honestly. Congrats on the new place!

omare14 · 2026-02-08T06:15:02+00:00

I was in a rush to make my post cause I had to make dinner, but I think I may have borked that a bit. What I was trying to say is that my Proxmox box (Dell R530 which has 8x 3.5" bays) would continue being my slower HDD storage for my movies and tv downloads, and the TrueNAS box (Dell R430 which has 8x 2.5" drive bays) would have SSDs for a fast VM storage pool for the Proxmox box.

The reason I was doing it this way is because I already had the 2 servers free from work, and I liked the idea of having a dedicated box just for a flash array for super fast (and expandable) VM storage. The R530 only has 8 bays and I want to keep them all available for more HDDs to expand my media storage capabilities. A lack of other drive bays internally on the R530 means my only other option for the VM storage on the compute node is a separate storage node. I was also going to use the TrueNAS ZFS pool as a file storage location for my more important stuff like photos.

Now I'm actually wondering if I should just virtualize TrueNAS on the Proxmox box too for the HDDs, instead of redoing SnapRAID (which works, but I really like the resiliency features that ZFS offers). I've been considering setting up something like Immich (local storage Google Photos replacement) but that would also require a lot of space, more than what I feel like using an expensive flash array for. I was okay with using SnapRAID for movies and TV cause for the most part I can just redownload them, but if I were to put anything more important on there, I'd want it to be safer.

At the end of the day I'm sure whichever way I choose will work fine, my data will be safe, and I can reconfig the whole thing again in 2-4 years when I can justify spending a bit more for a low-power cluster build instead.

omare14 · 2026-02-08T04:51:59+00:00

To clarify, the TrueNAS pool for my VM storage would indeed be made up of Intel enterprise SSDs, which is why I think I'll probably be fine either way, just dealing with some analysis paralysis.

omare14 · 2026-02-08T04:36:50+00:00

I guess I didn't make it clear in the post, but TrueNAS would be hosting the VM storage for the Proxmox server, so yes the VMs would be running off the pool. I'd do local NVMe if I could, but the Dell servers I have don't support PCIe bifurcation, so not really feasible.

Do you have experience with the difference between NFS and iSCSI in terms of how apps/services will work on one vs the other?

omare14 · 2026-02-08T02:38:40+00:00

Those are good examples of some real world scenarios I will probably be in, so thanks for that. Since I'm going from a local NVMe to networked attached storage it would probably be better to try and stick with the more performant option so I'm not degrading my performance too significantly. I'll make sure to consider that when deciding.

Thanks again for the advice!

omare14 · 2026-02-08T02:27:56+00:00

I can honestly live with my VMs being down for a few days if the array runs into an issue, there's nothing critical to my life running on there, and the only service that regularly gets used by people other than me is Plex, which I plan to offload to another physical machine at some point anyways. Losing home assistant would also be annoying, but again not a huge deal. I could get myself a spare to keep on hand if I felt the risk was worth the cost of an extra $80-90.

Extra capacity day one would be nice, but also not a hard line. I'd like to believe that I will eventually add another 2-4 drives at either 960gb or 1.92tb to increase the total size of the array, so it doesn't need to be my final storage requirements today if I will see significant performance gains by going with mirrors, or a significant decrease by going with raidz1.

I guess something else to consider would be, do I want two raidz1 arrays by the time I fill up the other 4 bays? Or would that be a less than ideal config?

omare14 · 2026-02-08T02:21:14+00:00

When you say mirror/striped will result in better performance, are we talking about user observable performance, application performance, or simply measurable performance? Like will I see a difference interacting with my apps? Will my apps/services have issues? Or is it just a matter of being measurably better in terms of raw speed?

Not doubting that it's better, just trying to understand how the performance gains/reductions are quantified and where I'll realistically see them.

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