It beeps when it's done.
It beeps when you press the button.
It beeps when you place it on the base.
But today, it beeps no more.
I classify this as a repair.
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I hate that modern appliances beep constantly. Whatever happened to giving a shit about being annoying or not? Old appliances would beep or ding once. If you're the idiot and leave something sitting forever that's on you. I would rather have my food get cold than my microwave beep every five seconds indefinitely. Sometimes finishing up a task that is going to take 20 more seconds is the right thing to do, stop aggressively beeping at me.
My friend just bought a toaster that plays a tune when it’s done.
A toaster. That needs to tell you when it’s done.
My toaster just triggers the toast catapult when he's done with his thing. Noise notifies me, toasted bread flies around, what's not to like?
The toast artillery.
o7
The ... toastillery, if you will.
A toast distillery? Hmm...
For the pure essence of breakfast
Highly concentrated eau de toast.
Kachunk!
it's not a trebuchet!
Must.. Not.. Build...
My rice cooker plays twinkle twinkle little star and I always dance to it when it’s done.
The difference is the rice cooker doesnt have metal parts launching upwards creating a very loud distinct sound that already indicates in the room that the toast is done.
With that said there were some really cool old toasters from like the 1950's that had self toasting where you put the slices in and it automatically drops down and then rises quietly back up when its done. If that one had a small song I could at least understand that.
My cheap rice cooker has a single switch and when it’s done it flips position. That sucker is super loud, and I love how basic it is
Only gripe is that you have to unplug it to turn it off fully, otherwise it’s in “warm” mode
Those are so fucking cool
Edit: Sunbeam Radiant Control
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
You're welcome.
Does it require a Bluetooth connection? Lol I wish that was entirely a joke question
as if the house rattling launch of the toast wasnt enough to tell you, your neighbors, and the russian seismograph monitors on the other side of the world that the toast was ready.
All of my Korean appliances sing the songs of their people once they have accomplished the most menial of tasks.
Wouldn't help the people in the office that go toss a bagel in the toaster then never come back for their burnt charcoal that got stuck because it was too plump to pop up
Skill issue
but think: what if you could tell the toaster what tune to play?
and what if the toaster played La Llorona instead anyways, in different styles every morning, because The Toaster has better taste in music than you
Mine goes ding. Still has the mechanical clockwork timer switch with a bell in it.
ONE. PING. ONLY.
Please.
Sean Connery is not an actor, he's a movie star.
Yesh, I am a British shecret agent.
Yesh, I am a Shoviet Shubmarine captain.
My car has no fewer than five different beeps when starting up. Sometimes it just keeps beeping forever. It did when I went to see it for the first time. I was trying it and stopped at a light, and it just kept beeping. Forever. The sales person had no idea why. I wanted it so badly, it’s pre-spyware car but the beeps were untenable. Spent 20 minutes looking up what the f is up with it. I found an obscure old forum post where someone had complained about the overly sensitive sensors and there’s a secret tiny hidden button that doesn’t feel like a real car button when you press it and it mutes them until you restart the car. I found it, pressed it, and the beeps went away.
I’ve had the car for a decade now and the beeps persist, lest I press the “beepn’t” button, and yknow… that’s alright. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, but that’s a hilariously bad design flaw.
beepn't. Excellent.
Honestly sounds like a seat belt sensor malfunction or similar as those usually offer an override
It’s actually insanely aggressive proxy sensors! I’d bet there’s a way to disable them…
I have a relatively new appliance that doesn't beep on completion. It sings. A song. Like, . . . a 20 second song. Like an ice cream truck.
Yeah I just moved from an apartment with a washer like that. It's cute for the first 2 seconds, the first couple of uses. After a while it feels almost passive aggressive
Beeping increases accessibility for folks with vision loss. It's there to help more than regular sighted users be comfortable using the product.
Okay cool. Allow me to turn it off without a super complicated process.
i prefer the tactile vibration with "button" presses, but that takes more battery than a beep. i'd rather have the battery life.
my favorite science fiction future I/O bullshit was from Mass Effect, where you could have little haptics implanted in your fingers, what would vibrate on "impact" with the virtual panel (yes, i read allllll the journal and codex entries can you tell). one of the reasons i like science fiction is some of those dreams (the well-dreamt ones, anyways) eventually become realistic.
I turned off the beeping on my microwave and it was actually really awkward pressing buttons without the aural feedback that I had become accustomed to.
That kind of beeping is fine by me. What I hate is when it's done it will beep every few seconds indefinitely.