Close save for avoiding the annoying beep

  • Lucien [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    15 days ago

    I’ve got someone in my family—dont know who, yet—who does a good job stopping the microwave early, but they never clear the remaining time before they get their food and leave. So I come over to the microwave to use it and there’s 3 seconds on the timer, and I have to clear it before I can put my time in. That grinds my gears more than it should. It’s like leaving an empty toilet paper roll on the holder, or leaving the dryer lint trap full. Like, be a better community member, you know?

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    Please clear that timer after.

    My wife always does this, but then leaves the cook timer sitting there with a few seconds left. Eventually our microwave decides to change the display of remaining time to “Food”.

    Can’t tell you how many times I come home to find it’s Food o’clock.

    • kurushimi@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      15 days ago

      Tried it and nothing, double checked the manual for my model and looks like this one just doesn’t have a mute or volume down function. Ah well, eventually it’ll break and I can fix it then!

  • upsiforgot@programming.dev
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    15 days ago

    Soooo…our microwave beeps for 5. annoying. unmutable. times. I don’t always catch it before it does its first beep. Somehow, the first beep + the one beep I add by adding 30 seconds (did I mention that EVERY time you press a button, it beeps one time?) + the beep for stopping it + one beep for clearing the timer feels better than waiting for 5 beeps?

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      14 days ago

      I think if this was me i would be considering opening it up and disconnecting whatever speaker there is lol

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    15 days ago

    I’m impressed with your bravery.

    I always give it an extra 30 (there’s a +30 seconds button), and stop on 30, because I’m a beep-coward.

  • Etterra@discuss.online
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    15 days ago

    My current microwave actually doesn’t have an annoying beep. It does still beep, but it’s not that shrill three beep freak out my old microwave had.