Cool microwave oven featureā¦
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Thatās a side effect of the type of motor used. Just like how sometimes it turns one way, and sometimes it turns the other wayā¦
Pretty cool but I donāt think that itās intentional. However, it does help.
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I have a fruit juicer that does that; it starts in one direction, if youremove pressure next time it starts in the opposite direction, smart design, if intentional
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Not alwaysā¦ They all do that and itās because that type of motor is cheap. I think that the start direction might be related to when you pushed down on the orange in relation to the phase of the mains.
But Iām exhausted and might be talking gibberishā¦
Also, why does an AI need orange juice? To bribe humans?
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I need such a blender. Instead of having a blender thatās cheap and dumb enough to conveniently reverse directions, I had one that was expensive and smart enough to automatically sense that it was unsafe to blend anything whatsoever any more.
Had, because I threw it away. A sapient human doesnāt need smart tech, we need obedient tech.
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I have a blender that just stallsā¦
And I hate cleaning itā¦
I have never been able to express that concept this clearly.
God knows Iāve tried.
This is why I looked everywhere for a not smart TV, why I neutered every āfeatureā on my pc and phone. I hate having to fight the tools I use to get it not to do what it thinks I should want, instead of what I actually want.
Anywho, well said phrase will be stolen and reused.
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It is incredible on-point. When I was growing up, I started to notice the infiltration of āsmartā stuffā¦ starting slowly at first in the early 2000s, but rapidly gaining momentum. The TV is a great example. The old 1970s TV we had when I was a kid turned on kinda slow, and there was no remote control. But, when you pressed the capacitive channel buttons, the channel changed immediatelyā¦ so fast I started testing if it changed before actually making contact with the button (it did)ā¦ when you turned volume knob, the volume went up or down immediately. I actually found a photo of this TV onlineā¦ not a pic of our TV but the same exact model;
I remember the first āfancyā TV we got, which had a remote (yay!). It wasnāt even āsmartāā¦ it was just a digital tuner TV with on screen channel and volume numbersā¦ thatās itā¦ by all standards, people today would call this TV a dumb TVā¦ but every digital TV Iāve ever seen or used since this one has the same bullshit problem - they behave far worse than the old analog TVs did. Changing channels was delayed, even using on-device buttons (not the remote), and the same was true for volume control. With āsmartā TVs it gets so much worseā¦ everything is controlled by a CPU with dozens or hundreds of processes threading simultaneouslyā¦ responsiveness droppedā¦ delays became random as various race conditions played themselves out in the TVās processing stackā¦ utter nonsense. The same was true for smartphones - when the actual job of conducting a phone call was an app, subject to crashes and performance problemsā¦ like what the actual fuck guysā¦ holy fucking shit.
There used to be something else that had a minimum quality standard - broadcast video. Any time you had a remote camera crew somewhere, they looked as good as the people in the studio didā¦ but I remember the first time that concept was tossed out the window - operation desert stormā¦ Iraq. Suddenly remote randos were using flip phone cameras pinging jittery 240p off dusty cell towers in Baghdad, and that shit was beamed all over the world via broadcast and cable news outfits.
It made me realize that innovations from the 2000s onward would mostly be about trading quality for convenienceā¦ and that holds true to this dayā¦ all the way to chatGPTā¦ you really canāt trust it completelyā¦ even with deep research and a $200/mo subscription fee, it will confidently hallucinateā¦ but holy shit is it convenient.
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Are you my Electronics teacher from highschool? 
Heard almost this same exact thing back in the early 90ās. Except he went off about cars.
āBack in my day, you turned a knob, it was connected via cable to the vent door. The gas pedal was connected with a cable to the throttle body. Now, you push a button, and itās asking the computer to turn on the AC for you. You push the gas pedal and itās just saying āHey car, please go fasterāā
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Anybody remember this bad boy?
It had 4 bars in it that made a distinct noise, which the tv would listen for and then perform action. (think button operated tuning fork~ish)
When I was little little, I can remember being amazed by my grandpa changing the channel by snapping his fingers at the TV.
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Wait, so even back in the 50ās and 60ās, our appliances were listening to us?
And people thought Alexa and Google started all the in-home spyingā¦ Turns out, it was Zenith all along.
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Yeapā¦ *puts tin foil hat back on
See why I want an all metal body?
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So you can tap your fingers together to change the channel? 
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Thinking back, we had a lot of early gen tech.
My mother bought one of the first microwaves with a 30sec button. And we were taught that that was the āhotdog buttonā. We used to get off the bus and take turns heating a hot dog to eat while watching G.I. Joe until she got home from work. That unit had the big old meat probe thermometer for cooking whole turkeys in it.
We had a commodore 64 with cassette tape drive.
There was an atari 2600 that we FOUGHT over.
I remember an early 80ās PC which we barely knew how to write a goto loop on.
My older brother had a Radioshack Coco II and I remember him occasionally getting onto early dialup with it.
And we had one of these chunk of toploaders.
My aunt had one too, and I can remember her bringing it over (with cousins) so we could rent movies and copy them off to feed a small collection.
It would appear that I have lived the golden age of tech.
Yup, Iām old. 
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No but pressing āthe clickerā (nickname for the remote) made a sound like fingers snappingā¦ the hammer clicking as it released tension and struck the metal rod. Humans hear the clicking noise, the tv hears the ultrasonic resonance of the metal rod ringing.
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Sorry, got outta context.