Comment on One-third of consumers don't want AI on their devices, report finds, and it's not because they don't understand it: They just don't need it

HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wish they didn’t even have clocks. The darn thing resets every time there’s a big gust of wind.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean its vaguely useful to have another clock but yeah if it did not I would not exactly cry.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The clock is only useful if the time is correct. They could at least put a small super capacitor in there to keep the time during short power outages.

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      • subignition@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Or like, a CR2032.

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      • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        honestly just having it remember the last time it last had would be big. my toaster oven does that so no time adjustment if it was a little brownout.

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    • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think this is an important feature for religiously observant Jews. There’s a loophole where you’re not allowed to use appliances or something, but if the appliance just happens to operate itself on a prearranged schedule then apparently that’s okay. In the manual it may be called Shabbat or Sabbath mode. Without a battery backup it adds next to no per-unit hardware cost if the device already has a cooking timer or automatic safety shutoff feature so it’s probably standard on most ovens and microwaves in markets that have Jewish customers. You may also notice this behavior with elevators that automatically travel on a schedule.

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      • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My old oven had Sabbath mode. It just stays on at a baking temp, and apparently because its considered a “golem” operating the “fire”, then no work is done by a human so it is allowed.

        To me that’s just finding loopholes in your religion because you don’t like its restrictions

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      • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I would be scared as fuck if a microwave started on its own. I mean so they are ready to put some slice of pizza they had the other day in at a specific time because they set it up to start the day before??? Also how many additional sales would they actually see with that feature. Im sorta aware of these things and I thought they were a bit premium and used even dumber setups. Like one was the thing is constantly trying to start itself and there is a thing that blocks it so you are not starting it but taking away the thing that keeps it from working automatically and then reblocking it.

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    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My mom visited me once and asked me why I didn’t set the time on the stove, since, you know, it’s a clock. “Mom, I have never once gone ‘oh man what time is it? I better check the stove.’ Especially after I had a smartphone on me all the time”

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      • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        On the oven, I’ll use the clock to see how long something has been baking for without pulling up my phone. Otherwise, the time it says doesn’t mean much to me.

        I’d rather just see a stopwatch-style function on it. Ovens usually have timers already, but sometimes it’s nice to just manually track it, especially if you have to pull the food out to flip it or something mid-way.

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      • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m in your boat. I don’t even change my clocks for DST anymore. It doesn’t really matter beyond a ballpark what time it is most of the time (and keeping to standard time means my animals’ schedules don’t get messed up every 6 months). If there’s an appointment or something that I need an actual time for, I have my phone with tons of alarm options so it’s fine.

        I haven’t set my stove clock in ages, tho I get why it has one since I can program it to start at a certain time, but beyond that appliances shouldn’t even have always-on displays. What’s the purpose other than wasting electricity?

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      • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean I do use clocks around the house and don’t have a smartphone on me all the time but still the clocks on appliances can be off for awhile before I bother to set them again.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a stupidly cheap microwave which I bought a few years ago (because I moved homes and the last one, a rental, included a microwave) and it has no clock.

    In fact, it doesn’t even have the simplest of displays - it has one analog rotary control for power and another for microwaving time, the latter rotating back by itself at a fixed speed.

    Sometimes simpler is better.

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s just your microwave reminding you when its birthday is. Did you even get it a card this year?

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  • frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That functionality require a high tier subscription, and even then you have to watch 4 of the same advertisement before it says “Happy Bithday!”

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