I put straight Debian on it, but it was pretty easy. Go to the bios, turn off secure boot, change default boot device, prosper. It's just an x86 computer that boots a custom Linux distro (TOS), no reason any other Linux distro can't work. They don't lock the boot loader like say... Synology.
You need a newish Linux kernel (6.12 maybe? Don't remember exactly) for proper support of the N150 iGPU and the Realtek NICs it uses.
I am curious how one pops popcorn, shakes a pan, throws the pan, and heats the sides of the pan when eg reducing stock. How do woks work, exactly, on an induction burner? Why does spilling liquids cause the problems I encountered? Why does the bottom of the pans have to be perfectly flat? Some of my cast iron skillets (whoops never mind) are 50 years or more old and are not perfectly flat. They cook fantastic on a gas range. My All-Clad skillets reduce stock while caramalizing above the liquid level, and... the flavor gain is detectable. My only a few years old set of de Buyers "work" on induction but they're not perfectly flat, either. They are ever so slightly concave up in the center. They work fantastic too on a gas burner, but are a disaster on induction.
While moving house across the country, our Viking gas range preceding us, I installed a moderately high end induction stove (~$1600) and cooked on it for three weeks before I completely gave up. I even bought "induction ready" pots and pans! No doubt it improved the resale value of the kitchen but for people with competent technique, an induction cook top is a culinary disaster.
Far superior? Yeah, I don't think so.
I really wanted to love that induction stove, it's why I paid extra for one to sell the house. But I was duped. Ah well there is theory and there is practice, and I remind myself yet again to always stick to practice.
> I am curious how one pops popcorn, shakes a pan, throws the pan, and heats the sides of the pan when eg reducing stock. How do woks work, exactly, on an induction burner? Why does spilling liquids cause the problems I encountered? Why does the bottom of the pans have to be perfectly flat? Some of my cast iron skillets (whoops never mind) are 50 years or more old and are not perfectly flat. They cook fantastic on a gas range. My All-Clad skillets reduce stock while caramalizing above the liquid level, and... the flavor gain is detectable. My only a few years old set of de Buyers "work" on induction but they're not perfectly flat, either. They are ever so slightly concave up in the center. They work fantastic too on a gas burner, but are a disaster on induction.
... we do all of those things on our mid/low-range induction stove? Our primary cookware is random cast iron, the pasta water boils over all the time with no ill effect, we make popcorn, we make stocks, toss things in a pan by lifting it from the surface all the time. I don't know what range you had but something is wrong with it.
Induction doesn’t require you have perfectly flat pans/whatever. Your “induction ready” pots/pans were probably just really bad, like maybe aluminum (yikes) with some kind of induction-compatible insert? You want to use pure cast iron anyways.
Everything your gas burner can do, a proper induction range can do better. Mine has a dedicated 240V 60A line and can boil water faster than anything but a restaurant-grade gas line (which isn’t even an option in most neighborhoods).
I don’t use woks at all, but I can’t see why one wouldn’t work.
There is one really great use for induction stoves I found. My wife and I have a small one burner induction stove from Ikea, which is basically a high powered hot plate. Its great for putting on the table for hotpot, fondue, shabushabu, korean bbq, etc. Even though I love my gas range, I am always a little weird about putting a propane stove on my dining room table.
I really want to like your comment (and I will) but... but... hot pot, ..., korean bbq isn't the fire in the center of the table part of the entertainment the restaurant supplies?
I suppose we can always in the glorious future buy electric table candelabras with solar powered rechargeable batteries that we can place into the window light on the annoited day and be sure our dinner date at our table works out... well?
I choose the firebug spouse of mine who runs the campfires on outings and isn't afraid of a (controlled) spontaneous combustion.
Yeah, those bbq baskets advertised for grilling vegetables are sensational for charring Anaheims and Poblanos over a big gas burner. Bell peppers become a no brainer. No problem at all to do a much better job getting the skins off than those roller things out in front of the grocery stores in the fall. I can do about 8 at a time.
The rest of the responses, hoo boy, I think I live on a different planet.
Overselling my competence... amusing, because my view of my own skills is that after 40 years of building on what appears to in hindsight have been an extraordinarily well chosen set of parents I might just now begin to understand how the best kitchens work.
I got an induction stove at a scratch and dent store for 60% off and if and when I move it is most certainly coming with me..I'll never go back to gas or electric. the time I've saved heating water alone has tripled the investment. and it came with a sous vide like temperature probe, which is priceless for making a decent cup of coffee
Can you link to what bedside lamp you're using? I'm happy to modify/retrofit an existing lamp but have yet to find something that would work well with LED strips.
If it doesn't have to be too bright you can use many lamps by wrapping a LED strip around a tube and placing that roughly where a bulb would go. Lanterns can also look cool that way if they have frosted sides.
I'm probably in a tiny minority with this, but I use a lot of on-device storage. Lately I've been filling up my 512GB phone constantly... not to the point where it's hindering me but it's definitely a constant headache. For me, the new 1TB option was all I needed to make it a worthwhile upgrade. I can't wait to packrat with abandon again.
I was always curious about how people fill up all that space now that most of content is streamed... Can you share what's your use case? Do you shoot a lot of video or something like that?
Well as I said I don't think I'm a typical case... and honestly a lot of it comes down to "because I can"
By far the biggest space user is music. I own thousands of CDs and so have a huge (and entirely legal!) iTunes library of over 50K songs. Back in the days of the 40GB iPod I kept it synced against a complicated smart playlist that tried to include what I was most interested in listening to... with very little success: any time something popped into my head I'd find it wasn't there.
The introduction of the 512GB iPhone models was the first time that I could sync it ALL to my mobile device, no compromises. Now does it make logical sense in the age of Spotify to have 4000 hours of audio synced to my phone? Probably not. However having access to even the most obscure material in my CD collection wherever I go (and even if I don't have internet access) gives me the sensation that I'm living in the future.
More broadly I tend to think of my phone like a biometric-protected SSD that I always have with me. I try to keep a lot of my personal files synced from my desktop to it (mostly using Secure Shellfish right now)
Thanks for sharing. I can understand you as I used to do the same before I switched to Spotify many years ago. And I can still see why some people prefer that "old" way of syncing content. I remember when Spotify was missing even popular bands like "Beatles" or "Tool" and that was a pain... I guess lot of stuff still isn't there (or anywhere else online for that matter), and especially some more obscure stuff.
I was looking at getting a used 12 the other day, and it was hardly worth it. Almost new prices. Does Apple continue selling old models at a discount? Will the used prices crater now?
If they continue to sell the older versions they have usually a very light discount (50-100$). However you might get bigger discounts if you get one with a contract from a network operator, which wants to clear stock of those.
I have had an X since the day it shipped and the fact that its still a decent phone for daily use is a testament to how much of a leap it was at the time.
I wonder how far back customer satisfaction is for older models. I'm still rocking my trusty 8 Plus and it suits my everyday needs just fine and works perfectly, with a slightly degraded battery life. I'm not gaming or shooting movies with it and so haven't seen any need to upgrade for quite a long time.
In my household we still love and use the iPhone SE from 2016. The only issue we have with them is battery life. I replaced mine myself, and while it is better than what it had been, the battery still isn't as good as when it was new.
I was hoping to like the updates enough to justify the upgrade at this point, looks like I'll be waiting another year. If I upgrade any of the phones in my house it will be my partners, who will want a 12 because they can get one in purple. (Seriously Apple, why not may a 13 in purple, you'd get more money out of me that way)
