AI 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.

@futurebird

What 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?

@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?
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...

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@pseudonym @futurebird

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.)

@theogrin @futurebird

I know, right?

And bonus, now you have popcorn!

Auditory intelligence!
(Which makes me think that as an assistive technology, a microphone app with level meter / rolling time plot of pops could be helpful for folks that can't hear.)

@theogrin @pseudonym @futurebird
I feel obligated to share this technology connections video where he talks about why the popcorn button exists

https://youtu.be/UiS27feX8o0?

The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours

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@pseudonym You're in luck! @TechConnectify did an incredibly detailed deep-five into this exact question.

https://youtu.be/Limpr1L8Pss

@futurebird

What's the deal with the popcorn button?

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