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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The clock on the wall and watch, yeah, I actually use those for time. Everything else is more like, lol wtf does my coffee machine need the correct time for anyway

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

How do you understand the wall clock though? Its 12 hour, it requires complex visual parsing. I understand if one didn't have a digital clock (which can be powered by a fucking CMOS battery for ages), maybe they could use it. But I've seen these wall clocks at a job that required fast decision making and keeping track of time, and I quit immediatly cus it took me a solid 15 to 30 seconds to parse wtf is fucking displayed on those, and that quickly got in the way of doing the job itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That's the biggest skill issue that i've heard my entire life lmaooooo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I posted this somewhere else but I struggled into adulthood with analog clocks and learning to read them changed my relationship with time. I forced myself to learn to do it because I read about how it can improve time management skills. Now even my smart watch has an analog watch face, and one that puts my daily schedule onto the clock itself even.

Being able to read the hands and their movement kind of give a better sense of the units and movement of time itself. Totally recommend learning to properly read analog time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The stove I don't get, but the coffee machine needs it so that you can set it to run 5 minutes before your alarm goes off in the morning. Getting a coffee machine with a timer recently has revolutionized my morning TBH.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get that can help some people if coffee is part of your morning ritual. I never did coffee as a first first thing, setting it up the machine and then going about getting ready was always how I've done it. But I totally get, if you need it first thing a timer is great.

In my life personally, still can't think of any appliance off the top of my head that needs to know what time it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's absolutely fair enough to be honest. I'm the kind of guy that likes to sleep in as much as possible and take my mornings real slow, so cutting off the extra 10 minutes that it used to take me to make coffee.... sweet. My partners' family's fridge has a clock in it though, and I'll never understand that. I think coffee machine is where I draw the line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

cutting off the extra 10 minutes that it used to take me to make coffee

What!? How does it take you 10min? I weigh, grind with a manual grinder and brew with a manual-lever espresso maker (that I also have to preheat with hot water)...it's about as slow as it can possibly be and I still don't take 10min to make my morning espresso.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It takes me 10 minutes to do anything when I first wake up in the morning, coffee or no, to be fair. I'm not a morning person. I also manually grind my beans (using one of those older hopper-and-box grinders), and do a V60 pourover with water slightly cooler than boiling (somewhere between 80-90°C, based off vibes I don't have a temperature controlled kettle).

Or at least, I did, before I switched to a machine. Still do the V60 later in the day, tho, it's a nice little ritual.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

With a regular drip coffee maker, a lot of people prep it before bed. Take a couple minutes to put the filter, coffee grounds, and water in the tank and set the timer so it is ready to go when they walk into the kitchen in the morning. Saves a couple minutes in the morning and can get that caffeine addiction hit right out the gate.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's more for programming when to brew coffee in the morning than for telling time. Then you can wake up and get coffee without having to think about it. Not that it's hard, but I'm sure removing that one little task makes many people's mornings a lot easier.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's also good for avoiding heart palpitations when you need to be on time for something and glance at the stove/microwave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fair. I know I'm in the minority of people who feels they need a watch and constantly checks it, so anything other than the device on my wrist is just extra. Since I was a kid I've felt lost if I wasn't wearing one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only watch i ever wore was a calculator watch. I lost it quickly, and my parents wouldn't get me so much as a slap bracelet after that. So never wore a watch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I have no sense of time, so I need a clock strapped to my arm.