myrmepropagandistAI powered microwave. Everyone must be laughing at this. This is such a joke.
People don't even use the damn popcorn button and that ... kind of works.
You can't have any popcorn until you enter the wifi password and download the new firmware.
This is the definition of HELL.
John Maxwell@futurebird And I bet, with all that, they still didn't sync it to NTP. Not having to set the clock is the one legit use I could see for putting a microwave on the net.
You can select your timezone in your profile under settings after you create your login and verify your age! (probably)
Wolfgang Müller (DE:er/EN:he)@futurebird @jmax With check of your vital data in order to see if you did cheat about your age.
Steven Hoefer@futurebird I’m sorry, your free subscription to the popcorn setting has ended. If you subscribe to Microwave+ you’ll get popcorn and 5 more settings! $19.99 a month or 5 years for just $1,000, a 20% savings! Or click here to learn about Microwave Pro which will let you set the clock and disable the incessant beeping!
"You're absolutely right, turning on the magnetron with the door open was very dangerous and irresponsible. I have updated my instruction set to say 'never ever turn on the magnetron with the door open no matter what' rather than just 'never turn on the magnetron with the door open'"
llewelly@futurebird @troublewithwords was Magnetron an autobot or a decepticon? I get them mixed up.
Fabio G.@llewelly It's both in this case, this is an autobot pulling a decepticon @futurebird @troublewithwords
gary
reletExcellent thinking! Let me generate a targeted setting for drying your hamster.
sabik
Medea Vanamonde 🏳️⚧️
@troublewithwords @futurebird when pop corn is redefined as carbonated corn oil, then you'll know AI has won.
J. R. DePriest 
:EA DATA. SF:@troublewithwords @futurebird have you heard of @pluralistic novella "Unauthorized Bread"? Cause that's basically what happens.
Femme Malheureuse@futurebird And then the microwave manufacturer starts sending you emails every day.
"We see you enjoyed our AI-enhanced popcorn experience. Why not try our AI-enhanced refrigerated beverage experience?"
"We see you enjoyed AI-enabled refrigerated beverages and popcorn. You might be interested in our AI-boosted digital scale."
And then emails to everyone in contacts, "[A] enjoyed our AI-enhanced popcorn experience. Here's a discount to join [A] next movie night."
Ugh.
They just want to know what you eat and when so they can somehow raise the price on it all. Ghouls.
@futurebird Or get you to buy more of whatever vertical market they're pushing.
"We see you enjoyed popcorn during [streamed movie]. Here are the other movies popular in your area with AI-enhanced popcorn eaters."
"We see you enjoyed five popcorn-worthy movies this month. Perhaps you'd like to upgrade to our AI-enabled automatic popcorn popper microwave, synced to your movie streaming."
Rob Rix@futurebird why, god??? why????
d.rift@futurebird JUST FOR THAT I'm gonna make some popcorn. Because I can.
billy joe bowers 🗽Honestly the only button needed on the microwave is the 30 second button.
Wilfried KlaebeMy microwave has no buttons, only two spinny things - power and time. That's enough.
That's how it should be.
My mom has a 40 year old microwave that's still great.
I do not own one. They are kind of a waste of space in a small apartment and I am a stove and toaster oven enjoyer.
bignose@billyjoebowers
> Honestly the only button needed on the microwave is the 30 second button.
My home upgraded to a new microwave oven last year.
The “start” button and the “+30 seconds” button is the same, large, easily-found button.
We're blissfully happy with it.
irina 🐇🌷
@billyjoebowers the "potato" button is a godsend for doing mash or twice-cooked roast spuds
Space Catitude 🚀I've been meaning to research how that popcorn button works. I mean is it just a fixed time chosen for standard size bags (but they're different sizes)? Or is it listening to the pops (there's a mic in my microwave)? Or is it some extremely clever microwave feedback trick (???)?
A cool crab wearing shades@TerryHancock @futurebird once upon a time they had a steam sensor that would stop when it reached the correct amount of steam in the box to indicated popcorn is ready. Mostly they're timers now.
@TerryHancock @futurebird there's a technology connections video with the information you seek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss
What's the deal with the popcorn button?
Try it. You know you want to.Referenced Videos:The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yourshttps://youtu.be/UiS27feX8o0And the follow-up to that oneht...
Jim Kreft@TerryHancock @futurebird you don’t have to research the popcorn button, because Technology Connections already has! https://youtu.be/Limpr1L8Pss
What's the deal with the popcorn button?
Cat
J. Steven York@jimkreft @TerryHancock @futurebird
Orville Redenbacher has the most dire popcorn button warnings, and the stuff IS easy to burn. But the button on our microwave seems to work perfectly. Moisture sensor instead of straight timer. (Yeah, love Technology Connections, and had already watched this one. I'm just the kind of nerd to love his stuff.)
Orville Redenbacher has the most dire popcorn button warnings, and the stuff IS easy to burn. But the button on our microwave seems to work perfectly. Moisture sensor instead of straight timer. (Yeah, love Technology Connections, and had already watched this one. I'm just the kind of nerd to love his stuff.)
Josh (open until closed again)
(@_@)Rye@futurebird we had a 1500w microwave for a while and the pop corn button would burn the popcorn. It’s all too much.
Andrew@futurebird honestly I’ve stopped paying attention to these stunts. They’re not designed to be useful products, they’re designed to get the company acquired.
I wish we could just have a techbro science fair instead and cut out the mass production part
@futurebird shit I just realized the techbro science fair already exists, it’s called CES
Stormy Gleason@futurebird you can pry my microwave's "potato" button from my now-cold-but-formerly-burned-by-hot-potato, dead fingers
George@futurebird
Someday I will dare to press the potato button.
Someday I will dare to press the potato button.
George BThat one turns your microwave into a potato
@futurebird if the AI can't melt butter without putting half of it on the ceiling, there's no real innovation
Pseudo NymWhat is it with the microwave popcorn producers always telling you to "For the love of God, do not use the popcorn button!"
Every package says to not use it. What's up with that?
Samuel Smith@pseudonym @futurebird i wish to know this as well. Why have a popcorn button if we're not supposed to use it?
Maybe #TechnologyConnections has an answer?
Maybe #TechnologyConnections has an answer?
What's the deal with the popcorn button?
Try it. You know you want to.Referenced Videos:The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yourshttps://youtu.be/UiS27feX8o0And the follow-up to that oneht...
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊I'd never heard of this before, so I had to check for myself. I just never had the desire to use the popcorn button, I was always a 'wait until it stops audibly popping' sort of girl.
And damned if it's not right there.
(Now I have popcorn, at least.)
forresto
Bimbo@theogrin @pseudonym @futurebird
I feel obligated to share this technology connections video where he talks about why the popcorn button exists
The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours
Peter Brett@pseudonym You're in luck! @TechConnectify did an incredibly detailed deep-five into this exact question.
What's the deal with the popcorn button?
Max L@futurebird
I want an AI-powered microwave that runs a 15 second self-cleaning operation to interfere with the 2.4MHz band, every time it detects someone connecting a legacy 802.11n device or router next door that invades the air space here...
I want an AI-powered microwave that runs a 15 second self-cleaning operation to interfere with the 2.4MHz band, every time it detects someone connecting a legacy 802.11n device or router next door that invades the air space here...
David J. Atkinson@petabites @futurebird You can make a decent short range EMP weapon out of an old microwave oven. DIY plans on the internet. Illegal in most jurisdictions of course. My comment is purely educational in intent.
Escape plan@futurebird
And it still won't be as good as the sharp carousel multiple choice
And it still won't be as good as the sharp carousel multiple choice
artful modder
Richard W. Woodley 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️So I assume you just put whatever in the microwave and it knows what it is and knows better than you what you want done with it ?
People will try that one (1) time and it won't work just right then they will press the +0:30 seconds button over and over like most people do with most microwaves.
Until they upgrade the firmware and the microwave refuses to do anything until you login one day. Then they will throw it away.
Paul_IPv6replacing a demonstrably bad algorithm (popcorn button) with an even more random setting via AI is definitely not progress. i can only imagine what kind of burned mess you might wind up scraping out of your microwave before you try to kill the stench it caused in your kitchen...
Flaming Cheeto@futurebird that button is a con. I found out you have to buy special bags EVERY time you want popcorn! I thought we were living in the future