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> Why does it have these? Because people want them, and more. > My oven doesn't have these, just an LED that lights up when the oven is on but yet hot enough.
by LeafItAlone 3y ago
> Why does it have these?
Because people want them, and more.
> My oven doesn't have these, just an LED that lights up when the oven is on but yet hot enough.
I’m glad you have that option, but I’m not interested in using appliances that are no more advanced than what my great grandparents used.
- ben_w 3y agoWhy do you want them, exactly? If I want to set a timer, I can just speak and be heard by one of the phones, tablet, watches, and orbs dotted around the place which collectively cover all three main voice assistants. And what's to display? It's an oven, not a website. Temperature is a dial, is it hot enough or not is just yes/no.
- sumeno 3y agoYou really can't fathom why someone would want a timer on their oven? The things HN posters will be willfully obtuse about is incredible.
- ben_w 3y agoI get why "a timer" is useful. It's specifically "on your oven" which is the part that makes no sense. We get as many timers as we want, whenever we want, summoned out of the αἰθήρ as needed whenever we invoke the names of the synthetic húsvættir that have shipped in all our phones for the last decade or so. The question is "why do you need yet another one?", and the fact you think it is so important that it has to be specifically embodied on an oven as to be flabbergasted that I don't think it's important, seems… well, I won't call you "willfully obtuse" because I recognise how minds other than mine work differently, but it does seem very silly.
- LeafItAlone 3y agoIt’s simple: convenience. Just like your Internet connected listening devices.