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.
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I did the same with my fan. Fucker beeped when the sleep timer ended
That’s an insane design choice.
There’s a fan here that has a bright blue LED capable of lighting a whole room. That LED shines when the silent mode for the night is activated 🙄
So many electronics insist upon themselves. You’re a fan that blows away the fart smells in the bathroom, you are not the star of the show.
OH YEAH? LISTEN TO THIS!
beepbeepbeeeeeeep
I mean… it depends how bad the fart smells are
Light a candle (before is better than after, I’ve tested this extensively. I should probably submit my documentation somewhere and at least go for an associates in farts or candles, idk) and if that’s not enough, they make this deodorant you can eat if you have weapon grade farts
I use a black permanent marker on all blindingly bright LEDs. Most of mine were actually sticking out so was able to paint over them without messing up the rest of the device. Tones them down nicely, but you can still see if it’s on.
Is that how you make black lights?
When super bright LEDs became a thing they felt they needed to put them in everything. “It is new!” I went into my home office to get something and didn’t turn the light on and wondered what the blue glow in it was. It was an LED in a monitor telling me it was plugged in. My wife has me put black tape over leds on things like usb hubs because they are blindingly bright.
Don’t get me started on leds flashlights that all have multimode including rapid flashing so when the battery connection is poor, like when the flashlight gets old, if there is a split second break in power it switches to rapid flashing. Just what I need when trying to get around in the dark.
The comment so nice, you posted it twice.
At first I loved the blue LEDs when they showed up in the early 2000 but I’ve grown to hate them. Why can’t a soft green or red be used.
And why do they have to shine with the power of industrial lasers??
Hans, switch on the Flakscheinwerfer!
Because it werfes Flakschein!
How does it address side fumbling?
Halfass Life Pro Tip: If it’s one of the larger standardized discreet LEDs, you can sandpaper over the plastic to diffuse the light, helping spread the light more evenly around and not so much shining in one direction like a laser.
I tried that. It helps but not enough. Not even fucking electrical tape holds that fucking plasma beam at bay.
And do they need to be so bright that they light up the room?
Halfass Life Pro Tip: If it’s one of the larger standardized discreet LEDs, you can sandpaper over the plastic to diffuse the light, helping spread the light more evenly around and not so much shining in one direction like a laser.
beeped when the sleep timer ended
Oh, so, it was an alarm clock after all
Time’s up, now get back to work
I have a bluetooth headset with a stupid bright blue led angled perfectly to reflect in one’s glasses, because I’m too stupid to notice the music means the thing is on, I guess… At least I know the designer has perfect vision.
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.
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.
My toaster just triggers the toast catapult when he’s done with his thing. Noise notifies me, toasted bread flies around, what’s not to like?
The toast artillery.
The … toastillery, if you will.
A toast distillery? Hmm…
For the pure essence of breakfast
Highly concentrated eau de toast.
what’s not to like?
it’s not a trebuchet!
Must… Not… Build…
Kachunk!
as if the house rattling launch of the toast wasnt enough to tell you, your neighbors, and the russian seismograph monitors on the other side of the world that the toast was ready.
All of my Korean appliances sing the songs of their people once they have accomplished the most menial of tasks.
Does it require a Bluetooth connection? Lol I wish that was entirely a joke question
Wouldn’t help the people in the office that go toss a bagel in the toaster then never come back for their burnt charcoal that got stuck because it was too plump to pop up
Skill issue
Mine goes ding. Still has the mechanical clockwork timer switch with a bell in it.
ONE. PING. ONLY.
Please.
My rice cooker plays twinkle twinkle little star and I always dance to it when it’s done.
The difference is the rice cooker doesnt have metal parts launching upwards creating a very loud distinct sound that already indicates in the room that the toast is done.
With that said there were some really cool old toasters from like the 1950’s that had self toasting where you put the slices in and it automatically drops down and then rises quietly back up when its done. If that one had a small song I could at least understand that.
My cheap rice cooker has a single switch and when it’s done it flips position. That sucker is super loud, and I love how basic it is
Only gripe is that you have to unplug it to turn it off fully, otherwise it’s in “warm” mode
Those are so fucking cool
Edit: Sunbeam Radiant Control
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
You’re welcome.
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.
Honestly sounds like a seat belt sensor malfunction or similar as those usually offer an override
It’s actually insanely aggressive proxy sensors! I’d bet there’s a way to disable them…
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.
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
I turned off the beeping on my microwave and it was actually really awkward pressing buttons without the aural feedback that I had become accustomed to.
That kind of beeping is fine by me. What I hate is when it’s done it will beep every few seconds indefinitely.
Beeping increases accessibility for folks with vision loss. It’s there to help more than regular sighted users be comfortable using the product.
Okay cool. Allow me to turn it off without a super complicated process.
i prefer the tactile vibration with “button” presses, but that takes more battery than a beep. i’d rather have the battery life.
my favorite science fiction future I/O bullshit was from Mass Effect, where you could have little haptics implanted in your fingers, what would vibrate on “impact” with the virtual panel (yes, i read allllll the journal and codex entries can you tell). one of the reasons i like science fiction is some of those dreams (the well-dreamt ones, anyways) eventually become realistic.
I prefer to jam some paper towel in the transceiver. You still get the notification, but now it’s just a vvv sound instead of a piercing beep.
I wish my kettle beeped when it was done.
But I totally understand wanting to make something quiet. I helped someone remove a speaker from a dishwasher because it would play a litle tune when it was done.
Was it a Samsung?
I think it was a Bosch.
OP woke up dull, will be going to bed tonight a king
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Now do my stupid LG dryer, it beeps out a song thats like a full 40 seconds long
I believe our LG washer had a setting to turn that off.
Yeah but if you turn it off it sends a message to the LG servers to steal even more data!
But now how will you hear that it’s done from your neighbour’s house or as you’re cutting weeds?
You bought a kettle that beeps? My god man!
I would have bought the simplest one with only an on/off switch. The thing’s a little too big
and it beeps, but now that I have it, I’ll keep it until it dies or becomes nasty.I have a fancy one with multiple temp setting and a keep warm feature and still no beeper. But I also drink “fancy loose leaf teas” that are best steeped at different temps. I mean, steeping the Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong in boiling water will get you no mercy from her. Just a bitter nasty cuppa. But at 85C she is as gentle and merciful as a cool summer’s breeze after a day in the hot afternoon sun.
I didn’t even know kettles could have a beeper.
Sounds the same as what I have, except for the beep. The ability to set the temperature seems nice, though I’ve never needed it. Usually I just grab it before it boils.
It’s ok if you don’t need the adjustable temps. Me, I just like having the option.
My water dispenser needs this repair. Beeps a total of six times for a cup of warm water. Come to think of it, most of my appliances need this repair. Can’t even throw a frikandel late at night in the airfryer without waking the whole appartment building. And it is called a Ninja?
The ninja air fryers are famous for their obnoxious and loud beeps! Friend of mine has one, and I was stunned by how loud it beeps. And it does that at every step of the process: Choosing temperature and time, starting, restarting (after necessary turning over the fried goods), at the end (multiple times then).
Looked it up and found loads of complaints about that problem.
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I know right?! It’s giving me a headache and I feel just so tired.
I mostly solved that by not having fires often.
I classify this as a repair.
An upgrade, even.
(Obviously your solution is far more graceful and honestly solid work I just…cannot even)
I had to do the same to my fridge. Normally it’s supposed to beep if you forget the door open or after a power outage, which is good, but at one point it started erroring out and beeping just randomly, so measures had to be taken.
Did you fix the switch or remove the buzzer? If the switch is bad, the inside light mat be on all the time. I’ve heard of feed spoiling that was next to the light.
I simply desoldered the buzzer. I think the problem is in some of the sensors, because the thermostat for the fridge part shows an error instead of letting me adjust the temperature (but I’m guessing it’s still falling back somewhere within the adjustable range). I’m positive that the light turns off on a closed door, I can hear the relay switching it off and I can see the light coming on with a delay (like it normally does) after opening the door.
Mine used to beep when I left the door open for a certain time (usually happened when putting groceries away), but at some point it stopped. Maybe I held the button too long and muted it instead of snoozing the alarm. Either way, I like it better like this.
This post inspired me. I managed to mute my pressure cooker even though the mute function is not mentioned anywhere in the manual. I did a little dance.
