Well… Start INstalling it 😁

Induction is so good. I have a glass top electric, but I bought a single burner induction for setting on the counter, and that thing is crazy.

My only complaints are coil ring/whine with my laminated steel pans, and also it’s too powerful, with not enough resolution in the lower power range.

It has 8 power levels. I use level 3 for making smash burgers (I put the whole thing on the porch to keep the grease/smoke outside. I don’t have a range vent), and it’s just a little too hot for that. Like a Blackstone grill on full blast.

Level 2 is just a little too cool for proper smash burgers.

Level 8 is insane, boils water practically instantly. When I first tried making smash burgers with it, I started at level 5 or 6, and literally burned the outside of the patties like charcoal. I didn’t notice because I was upwind of the “steam” which was actually a horrible smoke. Ruined the first couple of patties before getting it dialed in.

Induction is ridiculously efficient. All 1500w straight into the pan and nowhere else.

I still recommend it though, it’s the future. Under glass coils are annoying to cook with. You get used to it, but eh. Gas just makes the house hot and stinky, burns your pan handles and spoon/spatula handles, and makes my family’s asthma act up. I’ll never go gas again.

Right? Don’t go hog wild. Live slightly above your current means. Don’t hoard, just… Cruise, be chill. Nobody needs millions. Nobody needs hundreds of thousands. You just need enough to do the simple things you enjoy without being excessive.

I’d say 1 or 2 times a week. Sometimes a lot more, sometimes a little less.

That said… My closest friends, the ones that I share the most common interests and hobbies with… I barely see at all. I try to coordinate to see them monthly, but sometimes it’s less. One has kids, the other has health problems.

The friends I hang out with the most, we have less in common, but we all get along well, and have some core interests and hobbies in common that I don’t actually have in common with my closest friends.

The two groups of friends are cordial with each other, but neither of them are as close with each other as I am with them separately. It’s interesting. I guess I have a diverse set of hobbies and friends.

I have other friends mixed in there too that I only see sporadically, that don’t belong to either group. I struggle to make time for them every few months, usually at least a couple times a year, even though we live close by.

I’m glad I have friends, and it’s good to be active and social. But I’m also a bit of an introvert, so some weeks I really just wanna stay home alone and veg. Many nights I do. But most times, if I get an invite to go do something/hang out, I take it. I’m really bad at planning things or inviting people over though, ironically. So I feel like I’ve lost friends over the years from not reaching out enough.

This is the answer.

If it’s a DC whoop style motor, switch them.

If it’s a BLDC with the standard three wires, just swap two of them, pick any two and swap them.

I do love me some Stargate. And Destiny is SUCH A COOL SHIP, I’m still mad about it…

I’m on boost too. Let’s find out, here’s a picture uploaded using the built in function.

Well I’ll be darned, I thought it was using imgur, but I guess it’s straight to the instance. Neat.

I like flavored coffee on occasion. We have two grinders, the slightly lower quality one gets all the flavored beans, they never go into the good grinder.

That said, I got a handful of flavors recently to share with friends. I like to bring our espresso machine glamping, I set it up on a table under a tarp next to our tent, with a 100 foot cord running to a small generator.

When I got home, I tried mixing a little bit of each flavor together. 5 flavors,a few beans from each. It was honestly terrible. Far worse than any individual flavor by itself. It wasn’t unique or interesting, it was bad, and I’ll never do it again 🤷‍♂️

Edit: That said, while I would never put flavored beans in the flavor free grinder, as a matter of principle… I’ve never noticed a problem when changing from one flavor to another in the flavored grinder. So I doubt the grocery store grinder would affect the flavor that much 🤷‍♂️

Classic

https://a.co/d/5S3ZJTT

It’s like a teal, blue green ish

Extremerate emerald green

Changing the screen was easy peasy. The glue is tough to get off, but my screen was already broken. I did my buddies screen too, which wasn’t broken, and he wanted to save it, so I had to be more careful. That took a bit more effort to do carefully.

But that’s the hardest part, everything else is easy.

The hard part for me was changing the front case, that took significantly more time and effort. A million little parts and screws and stuff. Took hours.

But if you’re just changing the screen? Not so bad.

I’d still do it all again though, looks great

Thanks! And you should! For $300, it’s hard to beat the performance per dollar.

Other handhelds have more oomph these days, but not that much more, and your battery lasts much less time when your cranking those new chips that hard. None have matched the efficiency of the deck, frames per watt. To me, that’s what counts.

If I’m out and about, I want efficiency, not raw performance. If I’m at home? Well, I can stream from my PC and get all the performance I need. So what’s the point of these other machines?

No drama so far, though I admit I STILL haven’t had time to play with it. Busy weekend, even now 🤦‍♂️

Slow Internet users unite!

Mine could be worse, it’s 30/10. Had it for a few years. Before that it was 10/1 though, for like 10 ish years. And before that? For a significant portion of my teenage years, it was 1.5/.5.

Before that, my young childhood was all dialup. DSL existed, we just didn’t have it 😬

Right now they’re putting fiber in my town though! Soon I’ll have access to 8000/8000 if I wanted! That’s way too much though, I’m gonna go for their lowest tier, which costs the same as I’m paying now, but gives me 300/300. Plenty fast for anything I need to do these days. Nice to know the capacity is there if I need more 🤷‍♂️

I mean, it kind of is a toy 😬

To each their own though 👍

See my comment below for advice on an SSD swap, it’s super easy

Yeah SSD swap is one of the easiest upgrades, with the most benefit. Plus if you get an external nvme enclosure and take some time to play with RescueZilla, you can clone your old drive to the new one and you won’t have to reinstall anything at all. Pretty slick!

Can confirm 🫠

Nah, every little button and board are all individually screwed into the front case. So swapping it is literally removing those things one at a time, setting them aside, doing the rest of the work, then putting all those little pieces back in exactly where they go.

The instructions have over a 100 steps, then you do them an in reverse. So over 200 steps to do it all.

I bet you could get fast at it, but first time? Gonna be slow.

But the screen swap is just the motherboard in and out I’m pretty sure.

You’re very welcome.

The creator seems to be pretty on top of things, I bet we’ll get some fixes before too long.