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  • Sandinband [any, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    My parents got a new "smart oven" and the thing you use to set the temperature or timers on is touch screen.

    When water splashes out of a pot it can end the timer or turn off the oven and its happened so many times im fucking losing it

    • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I can almost understand the auto shutoff if it were a bit less sensitive, but that touchscreen is a solution to a problem that never existed and is a terrible idea all around. Yeah, let's throw a touch screen in a place where oil and water and who knows what else is going to be constantly splashing around, what could go wrong?

    • duck [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      We've had one for over 5 years with the apartment we're renting and it's instead usually too sensitive so you have to press pretty hard, but sometimes it does stuff when you barely touch it. I just want my knobs back