prforated

You can set an alarm on your phone when it starts like millions of people do instead of spending $2000 overengineering a solution to this "problem".

The fact that people are complaining about the cognitive load and beeping sound when running a washing machine is utterly baffling to me. This goes beyond sheltered "first-world problems". There is something insidious about this about micro-optimising for non-issues, something dystopian.

No forecast is accurate to 20 minutes. You get x% of rain over the next hour or so at best.

I love how every chain in this thread starts off defending the practical utility of all this but ends with defending "learning" and "hobbies" when someone points out that you don't need to spend $2000 and 100 hours to know when a washing machine cycle ends.

Why not just use an alarm?