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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 20:32:59 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Still digesting the experience the other day of that guy on the internet going ballistic on me for saying that toasters with a defrosting button on them are fancy "digital marvels" and wholly unnecessary.
   
   "[ . . . ] living under a rock [ . . . ] Hong Kong [ . . . ] cheap Chinese toasters [ . . . ] I worked at $CHAIN [ . . . ]"
   
   My simple, non-defrosting toaster is a Philips.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 21:17:18 EST lnxw48a1

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      @clacke I don't even own a toaster, so "fancy defrost buttons" is all new to me. Who has all these random gadgets? Something like a toaster should be old technology that just does one thing well and is reliable.
      
      If it sings and dances and requires an Internet connection and an account, you took your toaster and made a problem generator out of it.
      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 21:43:10 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

         in reply to
         @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Too be fair, it might be a bit of hyperbole on my part to complain about a single buttton.
         
         It really does seem superfluous though and I'm happy to have found a toaster and a kettle that really only do toastering and kettlering and do it well. I want to reward no-fluff industrial design.
         
         I went over the kettle shelf to check which ones had the proper power switch design, which is to flip back to the off position when the kettle is unpowered.
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 11:05:33 EST lnxw48a1

            in reply to
            @clacke It still sounds weird that someone got their nose tweaked over you preferring a different kind of toaster than they do. Like maybe that person has something else going on.
            1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 00:17:42 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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               @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} They definitely had something going on. It was a joke thread and they cared enough about my brief comment on their brief comment that they looked up my profile so they could go on a custom-made tirade just for me, which connected to both my current residence and my country of origin.