It beeps when it’s done.

It beeps when you press the button.

It beeps when you place it on the base.

But today, it beeps no more.


I classify this as a repair.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I hate that modern appliances beep constantly. Whatever happened to giving a shit about being annoying or not? Old appliances would beep or ding once. If you’re the idiot and leave something sitting forever that’s on you. I would rather have my food get cold than my microwave beep every five seconds indefinitely. Sometimes finishing up a task that is going to take 20 more seconds is the right thing to do, stop aggressively beeping at me.

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      18 days ago

      I have a relatively new appliance that doesn’t beep on completion. It sings. A song. Like, . . . a 20 second song. Like an ice cream truck.

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        18 days ago

        Yeah I just moved from an apartment with a washer like that. It’s cute for the first 2 seconds, the first couple of uses. After a while it feels almost passive aggressive

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      18 days ago

      My friend just bought a toaster that plays a tune when it’s done.

      A toaster. That needs to tell you when it’s done.

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      18 days ago

      My car has no fewer than five different beeps when starting up. Sometimes it just keeps beeping forever. It did when I went to see it for the first time. I was trying it and stopped at a light, and it just kept beeping. Forever. The sales person had no idea why. I wanted it so badly, it’s pre-spyware car but the beeps were untenable. Spent 20 minutes looking up what the f is up with it. I found an obscure old forum post where someone had complained about the overly sensitive sensors and there’s a secret tiny hidden button that doesn’t feel like a real car button when you press it and it mutes them until you restart the car. I found it, pressed it, and the beeps went away.

      I’ve had the car for a decade now and the beeps persist, lest I press the “beepn’t” button, and yknow… that’s alright. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, but that’s a hilariously bad design flaw.

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      17 days ago

      Beeping increases accessibility for folks with vision loss. It’s there to help more than regular sighted users be comfortable using the product.