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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I found an option on my Samsung microwave to disable all sounds and it changed my whole world.

[–] Valmond 15 points 8 months ago

I'm sure that's not even legal!

Also, those people designing microwave sound effects should be strapped to one buzz-ringing bunch and sent into the sun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same here. It was a life-changing discovery. Until the power went out and all the settings got reset... Too bad I'm a lazy asshole. Those were some good ol' days...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

. if I knew your model, I'd look it up for you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I truly appreciate the pic! They've been putting in a new housing development nearby, and apparently have no idea how to NOT knock my power out at least once a week (which as a work-from-home programmer is... not ideal). So I am just gonna wait until the blasting calms down before i try to figure it out again lol

[–] Glowstick 19 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Many microwaves have a secret way to turn off the beep. Google how to do it on the microwave you have

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Remembering how to disable the beep at 3 a.m. seeems less likely to happen than stopping it early.

Unless you are suggesting to turn off the beep all the time, which is heresy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

to turn off the beep all the time, which is heresy.

It's lovely! The beep is too annoying for the service it provides.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wirhout a beep I can't say "Pizza's done!" when ever I microwave anything that isn't pizza. Food that was started before leaving the room might grow cold and forgotten without the reminder beeps.

Turning the beep off invites chaos!

[–] Glowstick 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What? No way, i want my microwave like my phone - absolutely no notification noises

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

What if you could set the microwave to vibrate?

[–] wreckedcarzz 7 points 8 months ago

Me, already with the speaker ripped out by the cord: Arbiter battle cry

[–] FordBeeblebrox 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s typically holding down 2 or 8, unless you have a shitty cheap one like mine that doesn’t have that option

[–] scarilog 3 points 8 months ago

Pulled mine open and broke the buzzer with a pair of pliers.

Microwave insides are kinda dangerous though, so don't recommend doing this yourself unless you know what you're doing.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The beeper on my 41 yr old Microwave died a few years back during a thunderstorm. It was like a dream come true.

[–] Valmond 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Buthow do you know it's finished?

BRRRRRRRGRRRRRRBRRRRRR. click.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The timer display. Although if you listen really closely you can still hear it try to beep, but you have to be standing right next to it in a quiet room.

[–] Valmond 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was just joking microwave owens usualy are loud as fuck. And Then they add a loud BEEP like you didn't hear the jet engine shut down aaargh + new BEEP every 30 seconds too for sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I figured lol. Mind you this one isn't all that loud when it runs... mainly just fan noise that drowns out the hum unless the rotating plate starts squeeking and sings the song of its people.

I much prefer that over the old sound... always sounded like a 3 ton truck was backing up in the kitchen when it went off.

[–] Valmond 3 points 8 months ago

Ha ha yeah mine is like from 1980 RRRRRRTRRRBRRRR...BEEEEP

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm just surprised your microwave has lasted 41 years. Impressive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Tbh so am I. Bought it used in the early 90's and only ever replaced the lightbulb in it once. At this rate it's probably going to outlive me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

All that rain dancing finally paid off!

[–] raef 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Why do appliances have to be so noisy. A friend of mine's washer does a whole song whenever it does anything. We'll be playing a game and I'll hear it on his end, chiming away, and he's just ignores it. I don't know how.

Like, I don't even understand the point: if you're going to jump up and take care of it immediately, you'd probably notice when it's done, if not, then you'll get to it when you get to it.

Same with microwaves: if you can't keep it on your mind for 90 seconds, it can sit in there and chill for ten minutes until you remember you had food nuking.

[–] NounsAndWords 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only one I appreciate having the long, obnoxious, continuous tune is the oven, since I do not want to forget about that for several hours.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've had an excellent pedestal fan for 10 years for my bedroom. It's brilliant and does everything you want, but it also has a blazing bright light-up screen to you show it's on. But I know it's on as it's blowing air, I know it's on oscillate as it's turning - why does it need to show a neon sign in my bedroom at night with no way to turn it off? Mental.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oof, that sounds like an insta-return for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Precisely.

If I'm so not hungry that i forgot i heated up food then i really didn't need to eat anyway.

At least give me the option to have it only ding one time.

[–] raef 2 points 8 months ago

That should be a diet tip: if you forgot that you were going to eat something in 90 seconds, you didn't need to eat it

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[–] lookorex 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't mind the beeping, as long as the microwave shuts the fuck up when I open the door. The ones that keep beeping should be Office Spaced

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Or just straight up spaced

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My air fryer beeps VERY LOUDLY 5 times when it's done, the default time is 15 minutes and it beeps for every minute change you do which is so dumb. Most things only need 6-10 minutes so I just start it as is and then set a timer on my phone and keep it in my pocket so I'll feel it vibrate when the food is done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Dude mine defaults at THIRTY minutes! What the fuck even needs that much time? I think the highest I’ve ever used is like 14 mins… and yeah the beeping sound is loud and atrocious

[–] dingus 7 points 8 months ago

I know everyone in here is talking about microwaves and air fryers, but I'd like to add my complaint about my clothes dryer to the mix.

So for some ungodly reason, my dryer will make a loud blaring buzzing alarm repeatedly. It is the loudest fucking thing I've ever heard and last for like a full on 5 seconds at a time. This would be one thing. I'm used to dryers alerting you that it's the end of the cycle.

BUT...it does it three fucking times. The loudest sound you've ever heard for the longest time you've ever heard. Then repeat that two more times. It likes to alert you repeatedly when the cycle is almost finished. Never in my life have I had a clothes dryer to that and it's absolutely infuriating. There is no setting to disable it. I have half a mind to open the goddamn thing and try to destroy the end of cycle buzzer.

There is absolutely zero to have a buzzer blaring that loud, long, and repeatedly doing it. I'd prefer fucking silence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Btw, can you just ripp the beeper out or need to replace with a resistor?

[–] umulu 6 points 8 months ago

Easy. Check the traces going out of the buzzer. If one of them (assuming it has 2) goes to ground, then you can just clip both legs (or desolder) and leave it like that.

[–] chiliedogg 5 points 8 months ago

My microwave goes off every 15 seconds with a full beep cycle after hitting zero.

God forbid I go to the bathroom while warming up leftovers without blaring to the whole neighborhood that I haven't responded to my microwave's needs quickly enough.

[–] Wizard_Pope 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Mine is luckily quiet enough that it can only be heard from the kitchen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Mine does one singular ding and I appreciate it a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Had to just rip the piezo speaker out of mine. 100% recommend

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I dunno what the problem is, but some time ago the rotating plate in my microwave started slipping off the thing that turns it or something so everytime the microwave is used, you just hear thump, thump, thump, thump the whole time. It doesn't look broken and it's clean; I can't figure out why it started doing this but damn is it loud and annoying.

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[–] SeabassDan 2 points 8 months ago

Especially if you missed it because you were browsing TikTok

[–] ExfilBravo 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Electronics should be silent now. Only boomers thought boops and beeps made shit futuristic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

A friend who’d just had a basement theater installed told me that materials tend to absorb sound waves that have wavelength shorter than the thickness of the material.

This is why bass can be heard from outside the club, but you only hear the rest when the door opens.

It’s also why various timer chimes are high pitched. In a place without soundproof walls, that high pitched beep is less likely to disturb your neighbor.

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