3 of the 5 thai and chinese places within 20 minutes walk from where I live use induction rather than gas, and the cooks say that it's just a matter of adapting to different quirks. Also, induction gives you very precise control of temperature(on my stove, I have a linear analogue dial, someone with really good fine motorics could probably adjust power in the single watts range.)

Several restaurants here in Stockholm use induction stoves, without smashing them to pieces. It's more likely that you're exhibiting a trait common to many in the USA, namely "We've always done it like this, therefore it's the best way".

And yes, those restaurants even do wok, before you start babbling about induction stoves preventing tossing and shaking.

As early as in the 1980's, Swedish studies show an increased rate of Asthma, chronic bronchitis, lung cancer etc for cooks compared to the population as a whole.

"More bothering is that you suddenly see these "cooking on gas bad for health!" stories pop up everywhere, when there's already a push to "go off gas". (Then what? Often 'leccy again, and the grid is already creaking. Way to fail planning, politicians.) It just smells like orchestrated propaganda. "

It's not exactly new, here in Sweden at least, they've been warning about indoor air quality with gas stoves for at least 20 years now.

But, here's a quick example someone tested at home, just of CO2 levels: https://youtu.be/RpoXFk-ixZc?t...

I know several chefs who love induction, but they are all also under the age of 50, and not from the US, so probably less married to "this is the way we've always done it".

Buy good cookware, and it's superior to gas and old electric stoves. Buy budget garbage, and it's about on par. You just have to take some time to figure out the quirks.(And all cooking methods have quirks)

Either you have very poor pots, or an ANCIENT electric stove. Even before induction stoves, I had no problem whatsoever doing high-heat sears etc on electric stoves. Also boiled water etc faster than with even a fairly high-powered gas burners, but induction stoves and kettles are far superior in that regard.

Obligatory on kettles and induction vs gas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Chinese mortar, as used at least 1800 years ago, was pretty strong, showing concrete-like properties at times, and a core ingredient was sticky rice soup that was mixed with slaked lime.

So finely ground oatmeal boiled into a soup could very well have been used if you didn't have volcanic ash.

Funny that you claim increased stability and integration, because one of the issues I have with my AMD card is that when it crashes, it takes the entire system with it, while if the nVidia card crashes, most of the time I just need to restart either the driver or X.

As for installation, I use Gentoo and Funtoo, and last I had troubles with that was back in... 2007 or 2008, which is 14-15 years ago, so I do believe a lot of the issues come down to how distros handle things.

As for removing support for old cards, AMD sort of has a similar issue, in that support for old cards has to be backported in, because it wasn't there.

Once again, the breakage drama seems to be more distro dependant, and some of that might be ideology-related and could thus be deliberate breakage. Solution to that is to use a less shitty distro.

And here's the thing, many heavyduty users, not just pros but also hobbyist, find a lot of use in the features nVidia provide

As for your mentioning programming professionals, I have said for many years here on Slashdot that most programmers overstate their need for massive hardware, and disparagingly underestimate the hardware needs of non-computer geek/non-programmer hobbyists. An example: My brother is not a computer geek, but he'd happily accept any time I could get him on a supercomputer, because it'd be helpful to him when he wants to run CFD and FEM simulations on the boats he design. (incidentally, he's the one who gave me his Radeon Pro WX, because it crashed too much for him under Linux with AMDGPU).

Maybe to casual users. On the 3D content creation, 3D CAD, video post-prod as well as heavy compute loads, nVidia are still better, unfortunately.

Signed, someone who'd love to switch over full time to a Radeon Pro WX, or even just as the main card :/

Pfft, electricians do not need a pick-up truck to do their job. Over here, both independent electricians and electricians working for larger companies are mostly seen in small vans similar to Renault Kango Express, Mercedes Citan, Peugeot Partner etc. And for those who need a larger vehicle with an open tray, vehicles like the Mercedes Sprinter are more popular than pick-up trucks, here, and do the job just as well.

No, MacMann is a member of the Leibstandarte Nuclear. He consistently ignores all the environmental damage around it, such as from uranium mining, uranium processing, overheated waterways causing mass die-offs that fuck up the ecosystem etc. But as long as he gets to preach "Heil Nuclear", he doesn't care, he'll shit on solar, wind, geothermal, more efficient houses and vehicles

Or, your hearing is damaged more than other people's hearing, and you don't know it. In my case, my hearing has always been abnormally good(as a friend of mine describes it: Hearing so good I hear badly.), and I have the hearing test results from the clinic to verify it. I'm constantly boggled by people who complain that there's no difference between a FLAC rip of, say, Arabian Dance from Peer Gynt, and a high bitrate but still lossy encoding of it, no matter if it's MP3 or Ogg. The cymbals and triangle will be noticeably less clear in the Ogg or MP3 rip.

The funny thing is, when people have been calling "the mainframe is dead!" for the last 10 years or so, I've been replying with "No it's not, Intel and AMD are slowly reinventing it with every new generation of Xeon and Opteron/EPYC".

Oh, he's come a long way with his musical skills, but I just wanted to highlight that not all of his projects are artistic and/or entertainment.