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“How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Eight Laws of ~~Robotics~~ Calmness:

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  2. Technology should inform and create calm.
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I'm a little suspicious about a certification body that's paid for by producers, but it's fine if they can make it work.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Our machines have the ability to turn the buzzer on after each cycle, but it's not sticky. Given how far away from everything else the laundry room is, even with the chime you can't really hear it. So I have it set to just ping our phones when a load is done

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

When I bought my machines,the ability to ping my phone would have cost $600 more.m I don’t want it that much, but there’s also no reason it should cost that much or that we should be dependent on an appliance maker to figure out notifications.

At some point I’ll probably cobble together some sort of automation