AI powered microwave.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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 ?
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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.
replacing 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...
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@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
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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 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
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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 (???)?
@TerryHancock @futurebird there's a technology connections video with the information you seek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss
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You can't have any popcorn until you enter the wifi password and download the new firmware.
This is the definition of HELL.
@futurebird why, god??? why????
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"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'"
@futurebird @troublewithwords
"Open the microwave door, HAL" -
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.
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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.
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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 the popcorn button might as well be hard wired to the fire alarm system.
Almost every fire alarm when I lived in the dorms was somebody using the popcorn button on the microwave and burning the popcorn.
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@futurebird @troublewithwords
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@futurebird the popcorn button might as well be hard wired to the fire alarm system.
Almost every fire alarm when I lived in the dorms was somebody using the popcorn button on the microwave and burning the popcorn.
Now imagine how much better it could be with AI. Not only would it start the fire alarm, it'd keep adding seconds as it saw fit until the whole thing legitimately bursts into flame.
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Now imagine how much better it could be with AI. Not only would it start the fire alarm, it'd keep adding seconds as it saw fit until the whole thing legitimately bursts into flame.
It'd probably decide this outcome makes sense because it scraped *this post* for training.
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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?
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.)
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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 Is this a shitpost or something you actually saw? I really hope this is a joke.
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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 I've never found that the popcorn button did anything except burn it.
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@futurebird Is this a shitpost or something you actually saw? I really hope this is a joke.
This is what caused me to meltdown:
ilias 🏴☠️💙💛 (@DM_Ronin@mstdn.social)
@futurebird@sauropods.win may I interest you then in a Chinese microwave with internet connection & AI, powered by Nvidia https://youtu.be/DkaX-DoC84s (no it's not fraudulent, in fact it took the spotlight at CES 2026)
Mastodon 🐘 (mstdn.social)
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This is what caused me to meltdown:
ilias 🏴☠️💙💛 (@DM_Ronin@mstdn.social)
@futurebird@sauropods.win may I interest you then in a Chinese microwave with internet connection & AI, powered by Nvidia https://youtu.be/DkaX-DoC84s (no it's not fraudulent, in fact it took the spotlight at CES 2026)
Mastodon 🐘 (mstdn.social)
@futurebird I'm going to use the popcorn button on whoever did this awful shit. I hope they're prepared for the fire alarm to go off in the middle of the night.
