It’s not quite for me either, but I’m glad they’re continuing to iterate on their design and offer more options. Seems like good value for $50!

I’ve used a pretty cheap on (Duxtop or something like that) with a 6-8" heating coil. It worked fine on a well-conducting pan - 12" triple layer stainless-aluminum-stainless (like All-Clad, but a cheap version for restaurant use). It also did great with a 10" carbon steel pan. But I wasn’t doing anything that required maximum heat across the width of the pan. I think that’s a shortcoming for sure.

There are also reports of poor performance with larger cast iron pans, which makes sense - they’re not great heat conductors. So I think in part at least it depends on your cookware and what you’re cooking. Boil/simmer/fry in a larger highly conductive pan will likely be fine. Sear in a larger less-conductive pan maybe not so much.

Sounds like a crappy product. I’ve cooked on 2 Whirlpool/KitchenAid induction ranges (they’re the same company) and two cheap brands of countertop induction. All four were able to simmer easily and cycled on much more often and more briefly than you describe. And all were plenty powerful.

I did the most cooking on the KitchenAid and it could melt chocolate in a saucepan without scorching. I could hear it pulsing on probably for 1/2 second every 3-5 seconds. On the next setting hotter it could maintain a simmer in silly small quantities. And it could still boil a big pot of water for pasta in a couple of minutes. Pot handles stay cool and spoons don’t get burnt if you leave them hanging over the side. Loved it. I miss that range.

The only thing I had more trouble with was making caramel. The sides of the pan don’t get as much indirect heat compared with radiant or gas, so it wanted to crystallize at the edges. I had to use a thick tri-ply pan for that and still kept a blowtorch on hand to add a little side-heat.

The easy clean is really due to how the induction coil heats the pan but not the cooktop surface. With the surface only heating indirectly it’s really not possible for stuff to burn on nearly as badly. At least when compared to a conventional radiant electric. The surface just doesn’t get as hot.

I went from induction to a house with a gas cooktop and miss the induction a lot.

Dunno what you’re looking for exactly, but this plot point from S03 E02 sure sounds like what you outlined.

The Smoking Man calls Skinner’s bluff, knowing he no longer has the tape, but Skinner reveals that Hosteen and twenty other Navajo have memorized its contents and are ready to reveal it if either Mulder or Scully are harmed.

Wikipedia has plot summaries

We still quote this game in our house at random moments. “Willie know what to do!” and “Klayman, up here!”

One option to consider would be stopping for the night in a town north of the city to have an earlier arrival. If there are morning airport connections that get you checked in early enough.

Moldova!

Královec!

Is it possible that you didn’t enable snapshots during installation of TW, and then turned it on later?

That seems to be a common explanation on the openSUSE forum when .snapshots is missing from fstab (found by searching for the error you are hitting). There are some threads with workarounds. Basically, mount the .snapshots subvol manually, re-try the rollback and then add .snapshots to fstab so it works in the future.

Really interesting. Etymonline dates scape (v) to the early 13th century. So it was used as an alternate form of ‘escape’ for a couple of hundred years before Tyndale. Not such a misuse in the OP after all.

But it’s still apostrophically terrible.

It’s where we get the term “escape velocity”

Because escape goats are so quick gravity can’t contain them

Edit: Sorry, I guess I meant escape goat’s are so quick. /s

I haven’t had any trouble with it on laminate or finished MDF surfaces. I have some mini PCs, docks and network gear mounted under desks with it.

The main thing is to not use too much. A 1l pc would only need 4 small pieces. Pry from the edge to separate the sides at an angle - tilted removal is easier than trying to pull straight apart.

I would skip the screws and mount it with 3m Dual Lock. Unlike regular Velcro the two sides are the same smooth, non-snagging texture. It is very strong, but also removable without leaving any damage.