I think we might have too much technology. Our kettle, rice cooker, washer, and dryer all sing elaborate songs to let us know they’re done.

I think we might have too much technology. Our kettle, rice cooker, washer, and dryer all sing elaborate songs to let us know they’re done.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    14 hours ago

    My toaster and kettle don’t beep … now that I think about it, I don’t have any device that actually beeps when it’s done.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.comOP
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      14 hours ago

      my stove does at temp. my fridge will if its open. microwave of course. as someone says a smoke alarm. can’t think of anything more but I am sorta a luddite nowadays.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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        14 hours ago

        My fridge is far too old for beeping, my stove is pretty new but doesn’t do any beeps for base functions (maybe if I used the oven’s timer function, but I can’t be bothered to learn how that works), and my kitchen is far too small for stuff like microwaves or rice cookers (wouldn’t even know where to store a rice cooker when I’m not using it …).

        My oven makes a click noise when it has reached temperature, not sure if that is intentional sound design or just inherent to the mechanism. They could probably have made it noiseless if they wanted to, so I suppose it’s doing the equivalent of a beep?