That's an insane design choice.

There's a fan here that has a bright blue LED capable of lighting a whole room. That LED shines when the silent mode for the night is activated 🙄

Time's up, now get back to work

My friend just bought a toaster that plays a tune when it’s done.

A toaster. That needs to tell you when it’s done.

My car has no fewer than five different beeps when starting up. Sometimes it just keeps beeping forever. It did when I went to see it for the first time. I was trying it and stopped at a light, and it just kept beeping. Forever. The sales person had no idea why. I wanted it so badly, it’s pre-spyware car but the beeps were untenable. Spent 20 minutes looking up what the f is up with it. I found an obscure old forum post where someone had complained about the overly sensitive sensors and there’s a secret tiny hidden button that doesn’t feel like a real car button when you press it and it mutes them until you restart the car. I found it, pressed it, and the beeps went away.

I’ve had the car for a decade now and the beeps persist, lest I press the “beepn’t” button, and yknow… that’s alright. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, but that’s a hilariously bad design flaw.

Luckily this is a pretty simple thing to diy, at least for a kettle.

If anyone wants to repeat this, but doesn't know how:

• Unscrew the bottom (if the screws are different, keep track of which goes where)
• Locate the beeper and...
  • Remove it with a soldering iron
  • Cut its legs off with some kind of clipper
  • If you have neither, wiggle it until the legs break, or carefully rip it off the board

This seems to be the problem with the tech trend of removing tactile knobs or actual buttons.

Now we have these "touch" screens that can only provide feedback through annoying beeps, because you can't feel them or hear them click anymore.

My electric kettle for example has a lever to press down and start it. No beeps needed, because when it's done you hear the mechanism click off as the lever returns to its off position.

On the other hand my air fryer can get fucked with that one "everything knob". I've accidentally turned it a smidge many times pressing it in to start. This resets all the settings that I have to dial back in and makes me want to yeet the fucker out the window.

I mostly solved that by not having fires often.

The ninja air fryers are famous for their obnoxious and loud beeps! Friend of mine has one, and I was stunned by how loud it beeps. And it does that at every step of the process: Choosing temperature and time, starting, restarting (after necessary turning over the fried goods), at the end (multiple times then).

Looked it up and found loads of complaints about that problem.

I believe our LG washer had a setting to turn that off.

Similar to how people in public places have their phone ringer set to "Hear it from across town"

I don't think I'm up for a screw that short

Is it going to beep like a smoke alarm?