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Six digit, not six segment. Each digit has seven segments.

I've seen this a LOT lately, when did everyone forget what segments were?

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You don't need to read past the title for the first big error.

BTW, is The Verge sharing my browsing data with 855 partners? Folks, belive me, I am not that interesting!

> Folks, belive me, I am not that interesting!

you’d be surprised

> Folks, belive me, I am not that interesting!

Several of the greatest fortunes of modern capitalism have been made through surveillance of people that "are not that interesting"

Don’t be modest. Your data is worth sharing with at least 1150 partners. I believe in you!

If you write code for the f91w you'll quickly realize you can't actually control every segment: https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/wig/display/#limitations-of.... Some digits have only 4, 5, or 6 controllable segments.

But that's probably not what the author was getting at :)

Young people may not have ever seen a display like that.

They most likely see displays like that on microwaves.

In grandma’s kitchen.

I understand a grandma could have had a microwave. After all, I remember radar ranges with mechanical timers that were already relics when I was a child. But, now you've got me wondering what kind of VR/holographic microwaves kids are buying.

My latest bought a couple years ago still has a 7-segment vacuum fluorescent display. And a digital encoder knob and buttons rather than membrane controls. And a "cyclonic" inverter, which from the marketing diagrams, you would think can bend reality to your whims.

I'm 46 and my grandma had a microwave by the time I was cooking in her kitchen in 1984.

> radar ranges with mechanical timers

Those were the best. Dead simple to operate. That said I still have the Goldstar microwave I bought over 30 years ago, which has a keypad and digital timer.

> But, now you've got me wondering what kind of VR/holographic microwaves kids are buying.

Our microwave has a fully graphic, monochrome LCD. And Wi-Fi. Of course. https://kalleboo.com/microblog/posts/109720164680381672.html

TIL I'm a grandma.

Did air fryers already displace microwaves? I've missed the last couple meetings

Microwaves are great a two things (and little else...): warm up liquids and make popcorn. Neither are properly done by an air fryer.

I have both tools and they have completely different uses.

edit: both sport 7-segment digits though

I think maybe the original killer app for microwaves was baked potatoes? An hour to cook in a conventional oven. 5 minutes in a microwave. But maybe no one eats those anymore?

I haven't tried that, but my guess would be the same problem as most solids in a microwave - uneven heating / cold spots. That's why liquids and popcorn work so well, liquids mix themselves up and the unpopped kernels fall to the bottom of the bag.

I have one (800w) that takes about 5min to cook a potato (200gr), the manual suggests "once the potatoes are cooked, wrap them in tin foil for at least 5 minutes to cook through" but I just cook one wrapped with baking paper.

I eat one on most nights. I wouldn't without my microwave oven.

Also defrosting

Tina's. Burritos.

I am a worm of class.

Technically popcorn is just warming up liquids as well. I'd say that's all it's good at, which happens to have a handful of usecases(some frozen meals, popcorn, melting cheese, heating leftovers).

Technically all microwave oven use is warming up liquid if you want to get down to the basics.

One of my friends owns a normal-looking radar range kitchen oven. It can cooks with both the convection oven and the microwave at the same time. It is from the 1970s and has all mechanical dials. It has a metal rack inside and you can use any cookware, without a metal lid I guess.

I meant seen as in seen it named. Just because the seven segment display is there doesn’t mean it’s named that on the box, while in the past there might be more stuff with those displays and it would be a callout on the box design possibly.

I got ratioed here, for some reason, so I guess I didn’t communicate properly. Most people here are nerds who might know what this is called but the average person doesn’t.

Those are everywhere. Many are in storefronts

But they must have heard of the obvious word choice: "digit".

This is seems like "word I heard misappropriation".

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