To be fair it looks fucking tired.
Not the most auspicious start of a new year
Submitted 1 year ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s older than me and I turned 41 the day before yesterday 😅
clearleaf@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
OP’s previous toaster :
FluffyPotato@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
According to another comment here, Philips retired that logo in 1968 so yeah, it’s OLD 😄
_danny@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Toasting to the new year?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Trying to, at least 🤷
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
That toaster gives me the vibes of my '80s Apple //c
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wouldn’t COMPLETELY rule out that the design of 80s Macs were based on that of Philips toasters tbh 😂
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now how are you gonna adjust the volume on your toast?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Time for a 3D printer …
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shh! Do you WANT Big Ag to assassinate you? 😬😄
1984@lemmy.today 1 year 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 1 year ago
You can buy a good printer for $100 (Ender 3) you know. Print 10 things and it pays for itself…
Bangs42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TotalFat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looks more like a CD burner…
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More like a CD Melter if you try that, I bet…
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I just want to get a toaster that runs netbsd
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still… Could be worse…
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To quote the esteemed philosopher Frank Zappa from his seminal work Titties & Beer: that’s very, very true!
PoseidonsWake@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Auspicious is a nice word.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks, I agree 😁
Mothra@mander.xyz 1 year ago
New year, new toaster
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Modern toasters are bullshit. This of what you want. theverge.com/…/sunbeam-radiant-control-toaster-t2…
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Just make friends with someone who has one!
(Then steal it)
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year ago
Didn’t Technology Connections make a few videos about it?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Holy fuck, why didn’t this catch on?
fossphi@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year ago
My guess is that the profit margin wasn’t big enough 😮💨
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Or something with a knob for heath control, to counter the aging bimetal.