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You know that you can remove the piezo beeper from the microwave, right? Or add a series resistor to lower the volume.

This defeats your training to achieve zero with no beep though, a valuable skill when dealing with any appliance with a timer that beeps.

You can remove the buzzers from all of your appliances and then live in bliss.

    > a valuable skill

I am really laughing at this one. You got me good. This is either some kind of farming game where I need to "unlock" a valuable skill... ("training" makes me think of NES Super Marios Brothers 3 with the slot machine game after each level), or a skill that I need to add to my LinkedIn profile to check if anyone is reading it. (I recall years ago two guys adding recommendations to each other's profiles with very funny and implausible notes to see if anyone was looking. Does anyone remember that?)

I used to endorse people for "spiritual warfare". Sadly they removed this feature, and now my friends can't show off their skills.

> NES Super Marios Brothers 3 with the slot machine game after each level

a) It's either Super Mario Brothers or Super Marios Brother

b) SMB2 (aka Super Mario USA in Japan) has the Bonus Chance slot machine after each level, SMB3 does have the Goal card at the end of each level with a match 3 mechanic, but I don't consider that to really be a slot machine.

I pity the poor bastard that lets this skill atrophy, then finds themselves unable to hit a round number while pumping gas

Most microwaves have a mute function.

What? No way!

What!

I guess I should have read the docymantasion.

Your last word brought to mind the science fiction short, "Come You Nigh: Kay Shuns" by Lawrence A. Perkins, which used exactly this technique as an encryption method!

Analog SF, April 1970 - available here: https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/AN.htm

(BTW, that site is one of the hidden treasures of the Internet, on a par with Archive or Wikipedia...)

It’s also the handle of the poster who’s comment I replied to 8)

YouTube and Google are very confident this feature exists but drilling down to my model the answer is no it does not.

I think I'm getting the screwdriver out this weekend.

Removing an offensive buzzer or beeper or overbright LED is far more satisfying. Plus, nobody can trivially unmute the thing.

But that said, I wouldn’t mind a microwave that could be quieted without completely muting it. They could mute the buttons but still let it beep once when a timer or cooking cycle finishes. On the other hand I have a phone that I can time things with, so I’m not really looking to replace my microwave merely for that.

Microwaves that don't beep after 1930 so that $small_child doesn't hear you dinging a bag of popcorn and get out of bed to come downstairs for some to be confronted by whatever scary-ass film you're watching once they've gone to bed.

Edit: file under "design problems you didn't know you had until you became a parent"

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