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Six digit, not six segment. Each digit has seven segments. I've seen this a LOT lately, when did everyone forget what segments were?
by myself248 2y ago
Six digit, not six segment. Each digit has seven segments.
I've seen this a LOT lately, when did everyone forget what segments were?
- ok_dad 2y agoYoung people may not have ever seen a display like that.
- meowster 2y agoThey most likely see displays like that on microwaves.
- nefrix 2y agoIn grandma’s kitchen.
- saltcured 2y agoI understand a grandma could have had a microwave. After all, I remember radar ranges with mechanical timers that were already relics when I was a child. But, now you've got me wondering what kind of VR/holographic microwaves kids are buying. My latest bought a couple years ago still has a 7-segment vacuum fluorescent display. And a digital encoder knob and buttons rather than membrane controls. And a "cyclonic" inverter, which from the marketing diagrams, you would think can bend reality to your whims.
- dmd 2y agoI'm 46 and my grandma had a microwave by the time I was cooking in her kitchen in 1984.
- SoftTalker 2y ago> radar ranges with mechanical timers Those were the best. Dead simple to operate. That said I still have the Goldstar microwave I bought over 30 years ago, which has a keypad and digital timer.
- kalleboo 2y ago> But, now you've got me wondering what kind of VR/holographic microwaves kids are buying. Our microwave has a fully graphic, monochrome LCD. And Wi-Fi. Of course. https://kalleboo.com/microblog/posts/109720164680381672.html https://kalleboo.com/microblog/posts/109720164680381672.html
- meowster 2y agoTIL I'm a grandma.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoDid air fryers already displace microwaves? I've missed the last couple meetings
- throwaway494932 2y agoMicrowaves are great a two things (and little else...): warm up liquids and make popcorn. Neither are properly done by an air fryer. I have both tools and they have completely different uses. edit: both sport 7-segment digits though
- jimmydddd 2y agoI think maybe the original killer app for microwaves was baked potatoes? An hour to cook in a conventional oven. 5 minutes in a microwave. But maybe no one eats those anymore?
- Izkata 2y agoI haven't tried that, but my guess would be the same problem as most solids in a microwave - uneven heating / cold spots. That's why liquids and popcorn work so well, liquids mix themselves up and the unpopped kernels fall to the bottom of the bag.
- CTOSian 2y agoI have one (800w) that takes about 5min to cook a potato (200gr), the manual suggests "once the potatoes are cooked, wrap them in tin foil for at least 5 minutes to cook through" but I just cook one wrapped with baking paper.
- acuozzo 2y agoI eat one on most nights. I wouldn't without my microwave oven.
- shrx 2y agoAlso defrosting
- ok_dad 2y agoI meant seen as in seen it named. Just because the seven segment display is there doesn’t mean it’s named that on the box, while in the past there might be more stuff with those displays and it would be a callout on the box design possibly. I got ratioed here, for some reason, so I guess I didn’t communicate properly. Most people here are nerds who might know what this is called but the average person doesn’t.
- FpUser 2y agoThose are everywhere. Many are in storefronts
- lttlrck 2y agoBut they must have heard of the obvious word choice: "digit". This is seems like "word I heard misappropriation".
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- hn92726819 2y agoIf you write code for the f91w you'll quickly realize you can't actually control every segment: https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/wig/display/#limitations-of-the-weekday-digits https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/wig/display/#limitations-of.... Some digits have only 4, 5, or 6 controllable segments. But that's probably not what the author was getting at :)