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[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 11 points 7 months ago

Hope I'm not alone in this - Appliances should only have relative timers.
It only needs to know how to run a program for 30 min, or activate with a delayed start in 5h. Clock time is meaningless for an oven.

Appliance companies, are you listening? Hint: they're not, circuitry design and manufacture has been outsourced so much they probably don't even know where they get it from.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago

"I want this to finish at 6PM" can be easier maths than 11h 15m from now.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah — stop making me reset the god damn oven, microwave, and coffee maker every time the power flickers. At the very least my coffee maker has a small battery in it that seems to endure shorter outages, but if manufacturers aren’t willing to have a back up battery for this, then they should take out the god damn clock altogether. It’s mostly pointless— especially these days. My microwave is so tedious too — it asks the day, month, and year. Why does my microwave need to know the fucking date? It actually serves no purpose.