Power outage

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Yeah — stop making me reset the god damn tv, 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. 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.

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If so, I can't imagine why

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I tried not to, but it formed a mesh network with the neighbors toaster, and that connected to someone’s dishwasher the next street over, which connected to a washing machine down the block, and so on, until they found a self-aware microwave that just happens to be benevolent but sort of mischievous, and now whenever my toast is done, the Grindr chime sounds off and the toaster asks me to put it back in.

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The power almost never goes out at my house, which is nice, but there are 4 appliances with clocks in my kitchen. The microwave runs fast and is usually about 12 minutes ahead every time the clocks change, the stove is always rock solid, the coffee pot is never set (despite being the only appliance with a timer mode that would actually be useful), and the air fryer is only accurate during summer because I can’t remember how to set it (and I don’t care enough to fix it).

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With a bad administrator, apparently:-P.

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The real question is, what will it do if you don't ️️️

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No clue!

stebo

I always unplug my microwave because it's old and makes a soft humming noise. Obviously I don't bother to set the clock every time, so when it is plugged it usually shows --:--. However occasionally it indicates 12:00 instead, and I have no idea why it is sometimes different...

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Well, you know what that means. Time to FAAFO!? Just in case... it was nice knowing you.:-D

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I just got a coffee pot with no timer, just an on/off switch. (Because it also has no black plastic, even the filter holder.) I never needed a timer, but now I do have to be aware the keep-hot plate will stay on until I turn it off, instead of self-stopping after 2 hours.

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The only clock I bother setting is the stove

There is really no (functional) reason to have more than a single clock within a single room

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My guess is that there's a capacitor in there somewhere. The capacitor stores enough charge to keep the time for short periods (like a power flicker). But it's unreliable for longer periods of time (beyond a few minutes) and will cause clock drift.

So, when the power goes out for a medium length of time, the microwave resets to 12:00 to indicate that you need to set the time again

However, if the microwave is left unplugged for an extended period of time (a few days to weeks), the capacitor is fully drained. My guess is that this causes the time to be set to --:--

Why it would be designed like that? No idea

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Casual ads inside an elevator in an office building? This is the true dystopian future

I'd rather take the stairs (for up to ~10 floors)

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Me: this is so dumb

Also me: busts out laughing

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Jokes on you, my oven has WiFi.

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Power cut off at my house while I was at work night before last. Got the notification of restoration bout an hour before quitting time

stebo

interesting theory, thx!

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Some kid in Hoboken is gonna set your house on fire with it.

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So many timers, so little time.

I don't even notice all the little clocks. I actually like clocks a lot, and I check them a lot, but not the ones in these appliances. I usually don't notice when they run fast or when we go in or out of DLS.

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Good thing you can only turn it on remotely under certain conditions