dominicMay 2

Laundry machine's getting old and might need to be replaced*. The biggest challenge, it seems, is finding something that's small and low-power enough that I can run the laundry machine and dryer at the same time. Anywhere that has full-service delivery seems to start at 8 kg/2000 W, while my current one is only 5/800! I can't be the only single person who does laundry.

* or fixed, ideally, but since I can't take the dryer down on my own I can't open the laundry machine up to check so never mind that

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Yep, laundry machine is dead. Behaviour suggests (to me who knows nothing about this) a belt? snapped? There's no movement but the drum can spin freely, so. Time to make large purchasing decisions in a hurry, hooray.
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New machine has been installed. As tends to happen with stuff like this, it's missing a feature I didn't even consider might be optional: delayed start. I'll manage, but... surprised?
May 10 at 11:37amWeb
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Again, need someone to have written a (descriptive) book on appliance interface design (that's broad enough for it to exist, surely). Previous machine had knobs for program/spin speed/temperature, this one has a button for spin speed and one knob that combines temperature and program.

It's simpler, but also somehow they included a cold program for cotton but not for wool?

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Three weeks later I've found the delayed start setting on my laundry machine.

It is called "ready in". That *is* the more useful way to do that setting, but somehow it completely failed to register. Starting to worry about my ability to absorb new information.