new tech warcrime

ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually

so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight

@snow nice script name

@snow Kinky. I like it.

@snow
My todo list has a new entry right now. Great idea.

@snow While everybody else's basic microwave merely shows the correct time, your super advanced microwave flashes it.

@snow modern modern problems & modern solutions dot gif

@snow this is the most beautifulest thing i have ever seen.

And it's mqtt2zigbee, btw.

@snow Add different unfucking hours at certain dates to adjust for daylight savings tho

@snow I think you mean that you invented a nonstandard clock synchronization method that keeps your legacy appliances in sync via a novel NTP-based wireless signalling method.

Patent that shit!

@varx @snow since snow already publicly posted about this, it can't be patented anymore

@Lynx @snow @varx and patents are lame

copy that floppy!

@snow Mine thankfully just displays no time until you set it.

No clock, no online ads, no AI.

And don't you dare beeping on me with a wrong intonation!

@snow

@snow This post made me learn two things

- Microwaves have clocks
- There are people who doesn't unplug it when it's not in use

@aetios @snow @koakuma
> can't unplug my microwave

holy sh...

I immediately reminded today's morning when I unplugged everything leaving only top lights because there was a small chance of power spikes and a few light bulbs are the only thing I'm willing to sacrifice.

@aetios @snow @koakuma I have this with my normal oven... The power socket for the oven is behind the fridge. To unplug the oven I have to unscrew the fridge from the cabinet, pull the fridge out of the cabinet and unplug the oven. To remove the oven, I'll have to additionally: Unplug and remove the fridge, unscrew the cabinet from the wall in the fridge-space, unscrew the oven, pull it forward, tilting it down enough to get an arm behind it, unscrew the cabinet from the wall there, pull the cabinet forwards to untrap the oven's power cord and finally remove the oven
That was fun to figure out...

Also guess who noticed his oven has no power after putting everything back together after renovating... Yes, the oven wasn't plugged in and the plug was on the wrong side of the cabinet...

Wasn't the only time I cursed whoever planned that kitchen...

@snow Why is it that VCRs would show a blinking 12:00 and don't change, but microwaves go to 00:00 and count from there?

@jef @snow
In my experience Microwaves work in the same way as you describe VCRs. They will default to 00:00 and remain at that time until manually set.
Maybe there is some variation between models but I don't recall using or owning one that didn't stay at midnight and required to be manually set.

@raymierussell @jef @snow My ovens reset to 12:00 and start counting, so I can easily see when the power came back.

@jef @snow
Also, why kill the power at midnight everynight?
Once the clock is set then thats it.
If the clock is losing time surely a less frequent reset would be adequate.

@yura @snow I'm glad my current microwave allows me to turn off the clock by just pressing 'set clock' twice after a power cut... It does still make obnoxious beeping noises though.

Meanwhile my rice cooker has a battery, so it can keep time while unplugged... (The time delay feature is "be done by wall-clock" so it does actually need to know the current time)