• tonyn@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I found an option on my Samsung microwave to disable all sounds and it changed my whole world.

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      8 months ago

      I’m sure that’s not even legal!

      Also, those people designing microwave sound effects should be strapped to one buzz-ringing bunch and sent into the sun.

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      8 months ago

      Same here. It was a life-changing discovery. Until the power went out and all the settings got reset… Too bad I’m a lazy asshole. Those were some good ol’ days…

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          I truly appreciate the pic! They’ve been putting in a new housing development nearby, and apparently have no idea how to NOT knock my power out at least once a week (which as a work-from-home programmer is… not ideal). So I am just gonna wait until the blasting calms down before i try to figure it out again lol

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    8 months ago

    Many microwaves have a secret way to turn off the beep. Google how to do it on the microwave you have

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        8 months ago

        Pulled mine open and broke the buzzer with a pair of pliers.

        Microwave insides are kinda dangerous though, so don’t recommend doing this yourself unless you know what you’re doing.

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        I have a Toshiba microwave from like 5 years ago. I hold down the 8 button, it beeps to confirm, and then no more beeps. Works great

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          Same. I feel a bit ridiculous saying it, but as a frequent late night snacker with sleeping people in the house, it has changed my life. I do what I want care free now while my food is heating. And it’s so simple like you said, just hold 8 to toggle the setting.

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        8 months ago

        If only there were some repository of information one could search to find out if I’m right or not!

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    Why do appliances have to be so noisy. A friend of mine’s washer does a whole song whenever it does anything. We’ll be playing a game and I’ll hear it on his end, chiming away, and he’s just ignores it. I don’t know how.

    Like, I don’t even understand the point: if you’re going to jump up and take care of it immediately, you’d probably notice when it’s done, if not, then you’ll get to it when you get to it.

    Same with microwaves: if you can’t keep it on your mind for 90 seconds, it can sit in there and chill for ten minutes until you remember you had food nuking.

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      I’ve had an excellent pedestal fan for 10 years for my bedroom. It’s brilliant and does everything you want, but it also has a blazing bright light-up screen to you show it’s on. But I know it’s on as it’s blowing air, I know it’s on oscillate as it’s turning - why does it need to show a neon sign in my bedroom at night with no way to turn it off? Mental.

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      The only one I appreciate having the long, obnoxious, continuous tune is the oven, since I do not want to forget about that for several hours.

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        I do understand this. I have been known to leave a pizza in the oven for two, three, twelve hours.

        But aren’t you asking for a continuous alarm and not just a little chirp. Like, turn off the goddamn oven, not empty the dishwasher

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      8 months ago

      Precisely.

      If I’m so not hungry that i forgot i heated up food then i really didn’t need to eat anyway.

      At least give me the option to have it only ding one time.

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        That should be a diet tip: if you forgot that you were going to eat something in 90 seconds, you didn’t need to eat it

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      There’s a simple and cheap answer to this. A potentiometer.
      But that is apparently too much cost for a $200+ product.

      Maybe if the appliance were designed by KDE…

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    I don’t mind the beeping, as long as the microwave shuts the fuck up when I open the door. The ones that keep beeping should be Office Spaced

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    8 months ago

    I know everyone in here is talking about microwaves and air fryers, but I’d like to add my complaint about my clothes dryer to the mix.

    So for some ungodly reason, my dryer will make a loud blaring buzzing alarm repeatedly. It is the loudest fucking thing I’ve ever heard and last for like a full on 5 seconds at a time. This would be one thing. I’m used to dryers alerting you that it’s the end of the cycle.

    BUT…it does it three fucking times. The loudest sound you’ve ever heard for the longest time you’ve ever heard. Then repeat that two more times. It likes to alert you repeatedly when the cycle is almost finished. Never in my life have I had a clothes dryer to that and it’s absolutely infuriating. There is no setting to disable it. I have half a mind to open the goddamn thing and try to destroy the end of cycle buzzer.

    There is absolutely zero to have a buzzer blaring that loud, long, and repeatedly doing it. I’d prefer fucking silence.

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    My microwave goes off every 15 seconds with a full beep cycle after hitting zero.

    God forbid I go to the bathroom while warming up leftovers without blaring to the whole neighborhood that I haven’t responded to my microwave’s needs quickly enough.

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    A friend who’d just had a basement theater installed told me that materials tend to absorb sound waves that have wavelength shorter than the thickness of the material.

    This is why bass can be heard from outside the club, but you only hear the rest when the door opens.

    It’s also why various timer chimes are high pitched. In a place without soundproof walls, that high pitched beep is less likely to disturb your neighbor.

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    Some people got upset that I let the microwave stop on it’s own because then it beeps 3 times. Well it beeps once to stop it manually and again to reset the time so it’s not like stopping it early is doing anyone a lot of favors. Opening and closing the door is way louder than the beeps anyways.

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    Electronics should be silent now. Only boomers thought boops and beeps made shit futuristic.