new tech warcrime

ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually

so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight

@snow nice script name

@snow I think you mean that you invented a nonstandard clock synchronization method that keeps your legacy appliances in sync via a novel NTP-based wireless signalling method.

Patent that shit!

@varx @snow since snow already publicly posted about this, it can't be patented anymore

@snow at my mum's house, the breaker will trip if you turn on the kettle and microwave at the same time
So I have a power monitoring smart plug for each, and when one detects a spike, it turns off the other until it goes away
the microwave beeps a lot and never has correct time

@snow @charlotte I think the fact that you have a microwave plugged into a power strip scares me more

@vikxin @snow it’s europe, all power strips are rated for 16A here, which is also the rating of the circuit it is racconnected to

No clock, no online ads, no AI.

And don't you dare beeping on me with a wrong intonation!

@snow

@snow This post made me learn two things

- Microwaves have clocks
- There are people who doesn't unplug it when it's not in use

@aetios @snow @koakuma
> can't unplug my microwave

holy sh...

I immediately reminded today's morning when I unplugged everything leaving only top lights because there was a small chance of power spikes and a few light bulbs are the only thing I'm willing to sacrifice.

@charlotte @snow I guess at 220V, 1000W is a much more manageable 4.5A

@vikxin @snow i have all of my electronics (1 server, 1 pc, 1 printer, 2 screens, a network switch, and sometimes some chargers) plugged into two chained power strips

@charlotte @vikxin ACAB includes the people who write the electrical safety code

@snow @vikxin my landlord before installing a 21kW water heater on a 22kW circuit

@snow @vikxin i guess it’s okay since it’s not a raccontinuous load but still

@charlotte @vikxin @snow same xd

@snow next is software war crimes: microwave that syncs time over radio frequenz or some ntp shenanigans.

Also its so funny to me that you would do this this instead if just setting the fucking time manually. Truely hacker miss "Oh I am no real hacker" snow. Just stop lying to yourself lol.

gg this is too much fun still.

@snow While everybody else's basic microwave merely shows the correct time, your super advanced microwave flashes it.

@snow I’ve got 20y old AEG Electrolux microwave which is actually smart enough to not show any time if it has not been set.

@snow This is cursed in the best way possible. I'm guessing you're using some kind of IOT relay?

@PepperTheVixen just a $7 zigbee usb stick from aliexpress plugged into an old pc :d
and ofc the nous plug visible in the pic

@snow

I want to amend the dictionary.

hack (orig.) a quick and dirty solution to a problem (e.g. power cycling a device at midnight to set the time)

@snow

me as a kid: I bet in the future we'll have awesome spaceships and flying cars.

me as an adult: ah, yes, sanity reboot of a microwave. Just like windows servers.

@snow Now I’m waiting for the follow up „I was microwaving my food at midnight and my unfuck cronjob interrupted it“

@aetios @snow Built in as in planted into the wall? That's interesting

@izzy @snow people would do anything to avoid paying electricians

@snowy @snow $35 smart plugs vs $15,000 to re-wire the house

@snow as someone who has to have the correct time on everything, I hate you

(lighthearted)

@snow most normal technology user

@theresnotime @snow I prefer my low tech solution

@snow is it the case that the clock resets to midnight whenever the power is cut? so essentially, this is genuinely syncing it correctly every 24 hours?

@aetios @snow @koakuma I have this with my normal oven... The power socket for the oven is behind the fridge. To unplug the oven I have to unscrew the fridge from the cabinet, pull the fridge out of the cabinet and unplug the oven. To remove the oven, I'll have to additionally: Unplug and remove the fridge, unscrew the cabinet from the wall in the fridge-space, unscrew the oven, pull it forward, tilting it down enough to get an arm behind it, unscrew the cabinet from the wall there, pull the cabinet forwards to untrap the oven's power cord and finally remove the oven
That was fun to figure out...

Also guess who noticed his oven has no power after putting everything back together after renovating... Yes, the oven wasn't plugged in and the plug was on the wrong side of the cabinet...

Wasn't the only time I cursed whoever planned that kitchen...

@snow

@vikxin @snow @charlotte Having a surge protector in front of it to cope with mains weirdness might be a good idea (assuming the initial surge from powering the microwave itself doesn't trip it).

Obviously you don't use an under-rated power strip, that'd just be silly.

@charlotte @vikxin @snow It probably doesn't add all that much resistance to the circuit.

It would be interesting to check just how much with a multimeter.

@yura @snow I'm glad my current microwave allows me to turn off the clock by just pressing 'set clock' twice after a power cut... It does still make obnoxious beeping noises though.

Meanwhile my rice cooker has a battery, so it can keep time while unplugged... (The time delay feature is "be done by wall-clock" so it does actually need to know the current time)

@snow making a fuck-micorwave.sh just to spite you