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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 13:19:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Do you ever think "I should hack the firmware on my tumble dryer so it'll boot faster"?
   Or are you a normal person with a regular brain?

   • Conor Hughes (conorh@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 13:28:23 JST Conor Hughes

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     @foone how… how long does your dryer take to boot

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 13:28:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Conor Hughes

     @conorh like 5 entire seconds

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 13:37:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ian Douglas Scott

     @ids1024 I don't know yet I haven't started reversing it

   • Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 13:37:41 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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     @foone Is the dryer booting a linux kernel with an initramfs? And some unneeded modules they carelessly included?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 13:39:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jason Petersen (he)

     @jason it's like 5 entire seconds

   • Jason Petersen (he) (jason@logoff.website)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 13:39:47 JST Jason Petersen (he)

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     @foone I… don’t think I frequently “boot” my dryer?

     It plays a maybe 1s animation of the lights turning on but you can just skip that by turning the knob.

     How long of a boot sequence do you mean?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 14:37:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dana (née Bonnie) K

     @zombierustpunk OH YOU

   • Dana (née Bonnie) K (zombierustpunk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 14:37:02 JST Dana (née Bonnie) K

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     @foone I wonder if the code would pass a… lint check.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 14:40:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jason Petersen (he)
     • SkaveRat 🐀 :verified:

     @jason @skaverat that requires me to think ahead. I'd rather hack firmware

   • Jason Petersen (he) (jason@logoff.website)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 14:40:52 JST Jason Petersen (he)

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     • SkaveRat 🐀 :verified:

     @skaverat @foone I know this is a joke but why not let those five seconds pass while you begin moving wet laundry into the dryer?

     But I mean knock yourself out I guess

   • SkaveRat 🐀 :verified: (skaverat@skaverat.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 14:40:53 JST SkaveRat 🐀 :verified:

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     • Jason Petersen (he)

     @foone @jason quick napkin math, assuming you take 8 hours to bring it down from 5s to 1s and use the dryer 2 times a week, you only need about 70 years to reach the break-even points.

     I'd say go for it

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 14:43:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • sen

     @sen see it does start as soon as you press start, except it has to be turned on first, as all the controls are "soft" and don't remember their state. You can't set them until it boots, which you do by holding down start for like 3 seconds, then it plays a jingle and does an animation for another 5.

   • sen (sen@gnulinux.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 14:43:52 JST sen

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     @foone I've gone so far as to rewire an entire oven so no, no normal brain here. Also how does your dryer *not* just start instantly the second you push the start button? What kind of newfangled wizardry is this? Can it also read you a bedtime story and calculate tide charts?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 14:56:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So the way it works: all the controls are soft, meaning it remembers no settings. You always want timed dry, 80 minutes? You have to turn it on and set that each time.
     But here's the problem: it's not just "push start to go" like "dumb" dryers.
     You have to hold the start button for 3 seconds to boot it, then you can set the mode and timing.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 14:59:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     But it doesn't boot immediately. I'm fine with the "hold for 3 seconds to power on" thing, but as soon as you do that it spends 5 seconds playing a little tune and doing an animation with all the available lights, and while it's doing that, you cannot set any settings. It just ignores you.

     And I'm willing to bet that the whole animation isn't hiding a real boot sequence, or at least not one that's 5 seconds long. I bet if I deleted the animation+tune, it'd let me set settings immediately.