My parents’ dryer had 2 knobs for temperature and run time, and a start button. Ran forever and dried clothes.
My dryer has like a dozen programmed cycles that rely on a moisture sensor that doesn’t work and leaves clothes damp unless you use the manual time & temp settings, which takes several capacitive button presses on a circuit board that is likely to die before any of the actual mechanical components of the dryer. Also for some reason it has Wi-Fi.
Similar story for clothes dryers:
My parents’ dryer had 2 knobs for temperature and run time, and a start button. Ran forever and dried clothes.
My dryer has like a dozen programmed cycles that rely on a moisture sensor that doesn’t work and leaves clothes damp unless you use the manual time & temp settings, which takes several capacitive button presses on a circuit board that is likely to die before any of the actual mechanical components of the dryer. Also for some reason it has Wi-Fi.
Wifi is there to avoid pressing the capacitive buttons.
“And for some reason it has Wi-Fi .” will be the last line in humanity’s epitaph.
The latest xkcd has one of my favorite hover texts of all time:
I can confirm, I only use the manual time on my dryer because it’s the only way to reliably get it dry.