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I have some more anti-feature requests for you: 1. I don't need a digital clock or timer on my appliances 2. No loud beeps whenever a touch button is pressed

I have some more anti-feature requests for you: 1. I don't need a digital clock or timer on my appliances 2. No loud beeps whenever a touch button is pressed or a dial is turned or when the microwave is done 3. No blue LEDs that somehow light up the whole room at night 4. Physical dials where it makes sense (temperature, time etc) instead of clunky touch crap

adhesive_wombat 4y ago
And I promise not to skimp on controls and displays. Sure you can set up any device using only 4 seven segment displays and 2 buttons, with each button overloaded with about 12 functions. But that just means that although I advertised my cooker has a timer-start function, functionally, it doesn't have such features as they're impractical to learn and use.
- martindbp 4y ago
  Ah, but how would I turn off the kid safety lock if it doesn't involve tapping Imperial March on two separate buttons in canon? After my kid randomly pressed a bunch of buttons on our stove the alarm kept randomly turning on, sometimes in the middle of the night and I could not for the life of me figure out how to turn it off. But one day it stopped.
  - adhesive_wombat 4y ago
    I had to find a manual for my washing machine to disable the child lock which accidentally got turned on. There's no symbol (maybe kids are onto that these days), you just have to intuit which buttons you have to hold at the same time. Plus points: you can turn the beep volume down. Minus points: without a manual you would never in a million years figure out the magic sequence to get into the menu and when you did what the numeric menu codes mean.
0xfeba 4y ago
There was a microwave at a job that would, of course, beep when you pressed a button or the timer was done. But also when you opened or closed the door. Had a electric kettle that also beeped. I removed the piezo buzzer.
- martindbp 4y ago
  I had a microwave that beeped loudly at every interval of the duration dial. Just imagine it for a second.
kokekolo 4y ago
>4. Physical dials where it makes sense (temperature, time etc) instead of clunky touch crap Physical dials will break eventually. The touch crap doesn't feel as good to use, but actually lasts longer if it's well made.

adhesive_wombat 4y ago

And I promise not to skimp on controls and displays. Sure you can set up any device using only 4 seven segment displays and 2 buttons, with each button overloaded with about 12 functions. But that just means that although I advertised my cooker has a timer-start function, functionally, it doesn't have such features as they're impractical to learn and use.

martindbp 4y ago
Ah, but how would I turn off the kid safety lock if it doesn't involve tapping Imperial March on two separate buttons in canon? After my kid randomly pressed a bunch of buttons on our stove the alarm kept randomly turning on, sometimes in the middle of the night and I could not for the life of me figure out how to turn it off. But one day it stopped.
- adhesive_wombat 4y ago
  I had to find a manual for my washing machine to disable the child lock which accidentally got turned on. There's no symbol (maybe kids are onto that these days), you just have to intuit which buttons you have to hold at the same time. Plus points: you can turn the beep volume down. Minus points: without a manual you would never in a million years figure out the magic sequence to get into the menu and when you did what the numeric menu codes mean.

0xfeba 4y ago

There was a microwave at a job that would, of course, beep when you pressed a button or the timer was done. But also when you opened or closed the door. Had a electric kettle that also beeped. I removed the piezo buzzer.

martindbp 4y ago
I had a microwave that beeped loudly at every interval of the duration dial. Just imagine it for a second.

kokekolo 4y ago

>4. Physical dials where it makes sense (temperature, time etc) instead of clunky touch crap Physical dials will break eventually. The touch crap doesn't feel as good to use, but actually lasts longer if it's well made.