To be fair it looks fucking tired.
Not the most auspicious start of a new year
Submitted 11 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s older than me and I turned 41 the day before yesterday 😅
clearleaf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The philips circle logo on there is the black version they stopped using in 1968. If I had something that worked for that long I think I’d have a funeral for it.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 11 months ago
OP’s previous toaster :
FluffyPotato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That toaster looks older than the one I got during the soviet occupation and everything from then looks 30 years older.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
According to another comment here, Philips retired that logo in 1968 so yeah, it’s OLD 😄
_danny@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Toasting to the new year?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Trying to, at least 🤷
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
The sense of scale in this picture is weird, the table kind of looks like carpet and the toaster looks like a larger appliance
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s because I took the photo from a weird angle and cropped it tightly, both to avoid showing how cluttered the rest of my kitchen counter is 😅
As for the surface looking like carpet, that’s just the pattern of the coating 🤷
realitista@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That toaster gives me the vibes of my '80s Apple //c
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wouldn’t COMPLETELY rule out that the design of 80s Macs were based on that of Philips toasters tbh 😂
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Now how are you gonna adjust the volume on your toast?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m a red-blooded Scandinavian man! I like my cars sensible, quiet and preferably electric and I want my toast loud and diesel driven!
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Time for a 3D printer …
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shh! Do you WANT Big Ag to assassinate you? 😬😄
1984@lemmy.today 11 months ago
My friends buy 3d printers for thousands of dollars and then they make stuff like a headphone stand that would cost them 10 dollars to buy… :p
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can buy a good printer for $100 (Ender 3) you know. Print 10 things and it pays for itself…
Bangs42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TotalFat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Looks more like a CD burner…
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
More like a CD Melter if you try that, I bet…
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I just want to get a toaster that runs netbsd
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Still… Could be worse…
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To quote the esteemed philosopher Frank Zappa from his seminal work Titties & Beer: that’s very, very true!
PoseidonsWake@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It could have been worse, at least you didn’t manage to set your’s on fire like I did lol
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, after a bit of swearing trial and error, I managed to reattach it and it works again.
Though I can’t say I haven’t tried, I’m almost positive that I can’t undo fire 😄
I hope you’re alright unlike your toaster, btw
theodewere@kbin.social 11 months ago
that is exactly auspicious because it is definitely a sign.. the sign says: you will buy a new toaster this year..
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah, after some swearing, trial and error, I found out that it was actually am easy fix, so it’s up and running again!
Besides, do I look like I have “toaster from this millenium” money? 😛
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Auspicious is a nice word.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks, I agree 😁
Mothra@mander.xyz 11 months ago
New year, new toaster
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Modern toasters are bullshit. This of what you want. theverge.com/…/sunbeam-radiant-control-toaster-t2…
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Modern? I’m pretty sure this one is older than me and I turned 41 the day before yesterday 😄
That being said, the sunbeam looks brilliant and if I could afford one I’d much prefer that to the one I have!
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Just make friends with someone who has one!
(Then steal it)
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Well, if it is just the knob you can try gluing it back, cut up toothpicks might help. If you are confident with electrics you can replace the potentiometer.
Toasters just really go by time or temperature, except the Sunbeam which actually goes by if the toast is ‘toast’.
I never let anything die, I just keep fixing it. Hardly an auspicious start though.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Didn’t Technology Connections make a few videos about it?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Holy fuck, why didn’t this catch on?
fossphi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The article mentions that they costed about 22 USD when introduced and it’s around 260 in today’s dollars. Pretty darn expensive
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My guess is that the profit margin wasn’t big enough 😮💨
Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a kitchenaid toaster that matches my KitchenAid…I hate it , it manages to burn one edge on either side of every slice of every bread. It beeps before it makes a loud pop to so the beep is annoying and superfluous. It’s first setting is warm bread and second is just passed acceptable, 3 is burnt. I’ve never used the remaining 4 -6 settings. If you put bread in at 2 and then another batch when it is done it will burn the second lot.
Utter piece of shit for the price we paid. You’d get, and in fact I have, a better toaster for a tenth the price doing your grocery shopping.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
These days, any purchase you make is a gamble without research. And even with research, it’s hard to tell the difference between a reviewed version and the one you’re looking at sometimes.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Or something with a knob for heath control, to counter the aging bimetal.