The appliance that elicits anger and frustrated at it’s mere sight. The treacherous device that never worked right.

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    I moved from the US to Europe and I keep joking that the largest QoL upgrade has been my unbelievably dumb microwave. It has a power knob, a timer knob that is spring wound, and when it hits 0 it physically hits a bell like an older toaster.

    I fucking love it. It was like 20€

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        Newer ones have way too many digital buttons and a loud repeating beep when finished. Even newer ones, probably Bluetooth or something

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          https://homemicrowave.com/microwave-with-alexa/

          Want to set up your microwave with Alexa for plenty of cool tricks, but didn’t know how to pick the best microwave that works with Alexa?

          Having an Alexa compatible microwave in your kitchen, you can control the microwave and adjust the cooking setting simply via Alexa’s voice control feature.

          Speaking for myself, I don’t really want Internet dependency, much less a microphone sending data to the Internet on my appliances.