Edit It’s 17:08 now and it still shows 3 minutes
Edit 2 It’s 17:15 now and it has been on 0 minutes for 3 full minutes…
One thing I pride myself on is the ability to see through my dryer’s bullshit. I know that 30 minutes really means 45 you damn liar.
Yeah I should have known, started the thing at 12:26 (actually know this because I called my wife to check if we had 3 hours and 38 minutes before we needed to go), its 17:18 and I just got the door open…
If you haven’t already, clean the dryer vent thoroughly, including the whole exhaust vent leading outside. This should be done at least once a year. Once the vent is clear it should speed up drying, if not it might be the dryer itself and the manual might have solutions.
Here are some guides: https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/how-to-clean-a-dryer-vent/ https://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/home-diy/projects/dryer-vent-cleaning.htm
“Two minutes, Turkish.”
I can’t understand the joke. :/
I much prefer hang drying.
- Less wear on the clothes
- Basically no energy cost (technically not correct but it’s really whatever)
- Free humidifying during the dry winters
- Fairly satisfying thing to do while listening to a podcast
The primary downside is that it’s no fun to do it when it rains, neither indoors or outdoors, but as long as you time your laundry well enough, it’s all good.
It’s -11°F where I am today, my family still lives in Jamaica and I envy their ability to hang their clothes so much.
It should be possible to hang your clothes indoors still, I guess. Outdoors as well I’ve been told, when it’s a bit below freezing, but I’ll admit that I’ve never actually tried that.
At home I hang most of the clothes, but we where at a short trip and we had some wet towels and swimgear, so de decided to just do one full laundry with most of our wet and dirty clothes. The first duration before I even started the cycle was that it should be done at about 16:10 it was actually done more than an hour later.
Relying on the weather to dry your clothes is a scam. You’re just going to get tricked. I have ADHD so it’s a no go
What does ADHD have to do with this? I’m not sure that I get it.
I can’t remember to do shit because I don’t experience the mental construct of time in the same way as neurotypicals. And even with an alarm, it’s still an extra cognitive load that makes me more likely to mess up everything else. If I forget the clothes on the line for a week, they’ll degrade in the elements and get mildew from the night dew. Inside is a better place for me to forget my clothes. I have less stuff to remember for less time, an alarm is more help to me, and I don’t have to plan for unexpected variables.
The drying machine is a disabled person’s ally.
I see - remembering to bring the laundry inside is the issue.
While there’s nothing wrong with using a dryer - I’m certainly not going to deny you the privilege - perhaps hanging the clothes inside could be a passable workaround for the memory issue? Assuming your indoor environment allows for it, that is.
Then the lying whore sings a cheerful little tune after it fucked up my schedule.
Our dryer does this to us:
Put clothes in, start it - it estimates 35 units of time. Come back in 15 minutes to check, it says 15 units left. Come back in 15 minutes, it now says 21 units left.
I am, like all of us, unsure of the fundamental nature of time. But the dryer even more so. The units are not one standard length, and they don’t move always in the same direction.
Time to clean your dryer venting.
And camera lens.
and the microphone.
just in case they couldn’t spy correctly anymore.
I’ve never seen a heat pump dryer with an accurate countdown.
Had me in the first half… they’re up there with drawer style microwaves.
My washing machine over-estimates at first, it drops nearly an hour after it gets going. However, it will underestimate later on.
Also, it does this thing where it beeps that it’s starting, doesn’t do anything, then unlocks the door for a few seconds, then locks it again and actually starts. That’s been a life saver for catching that one sock that got left behind and didn’t make it into the drum.
My dryer has a couple different presets which all adjust the remaining time dynamically according to a predetermind dryness level. To get around this, I just use the “custom” setting and change the temperature and timer manually.
Kind of like estimations in software development.
Lies. They’re very reliable. You can rely on them to be wrong.
Take whatever timeline you have and double it. Then add 6 more weeks of cram.
estimations in software development are much less reliable IMO
The developers just put their own logic into its estimation software.
Im still waiting for the last edit OP, dont leave us hanging
I think it was 17:18 when the door lock finally opened. The very first time estimate said it should be ready at 16:10. So it was definitely a big lie.
I much prefer an estimating timer that reliably dries all the clothes rather than a reliable timer that estimates the clothes are dry.
Our washer does this too though
It might weigh it before washing, then keep doing the spin cycle until the weight gets close enough to the starting weight
Good shout. Most of the cycles do their best to get rid of excess moisture
We call it “the longest minute” in my house.
It’s not always the fault of the device. It estimate the time based on the download speed in this moment, but it can’t know that in the next moment your ISP server slows down or that your AV stops the download for some times to analyze a suspicios file, things like this to make your day enjoyable. Because of this, never automatic updates. I recieve an notification if there is an update in the queue and so I can update when I like in a spare time.
That’s a washer, or maybe a dryer I can’t tell. I hope it’s not downloading anything
