[ShadowAce]

H/T to Red Badger for sending this to me

[ShadowAce]

[Openurmind]

If it ain’t broke don’t try to fix it.

[Billthedrill]

My toaster oven crapped out last night (true story) - less than a month after I finally got the clock working right. It figured now it’s a clock is my working hypothesis.

[Magnum44]

[aquila48]

That’s what today’s car has become.

[KarlInOhio]

Cute, but a little dated. You would now need an i7 with 16GB of RAM and a half terabyte of local storage plus a cloud service to provide a permanent photographic record of your breakfasts. But you could save on the heating elements by running Windows 11 and use the processor to heat the bread directly.

[DugwayDuke]

Of course, no true software engineer would have failed to include a requirement for dual factor authentication as part of the user interface.

[Tell It Right]

Decades ago in the early 1990's I had a chance to play with the Video Toaster that amazingly ran on a home computer (Amiga). I could not believe that could be done at home. Of course, today it's nothing to produce video content like that on a home computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seznQmDp2pU

[dayglored]

As I mentioned to Red Badger in mail:

> "...Intel 80386 with 8MB of memory, a 30MB hard disk, and a VGA monitor..."

Clearly this joke has been around for decades. LOL

[ExGeeEye]

My toaster was made in the 1940s.

If you look at the plug end, you can see the wires attached to the prongs with screws.

[Disambiguator]

This is my most recent toaster purchase. I expect it to last a very long time.

[MayflowerMadam]

“The king wisely had the computer scientist beheaded, and they all lived happily ever after”

Too bad it wasn’t Bill Gates, and too bad isn’t a true story.

[grey_whiskers]

The “Computer Scientist” obviously worked for Microsoft.

[Deaf and Discerning]

I dropped off my old toaster at the metal scrap yard just last week

[Exit148]

What’s a toaster? Just kidding —— grew up with one -— the really oldfashioned kind— years ago.

[old-ager]

I think that email got some wierd routing and took about 40 years to get to you.

[AlaskaErik]

I have two toasters. One is a four slot unit. One side is set for toast and the other side is set for waffles. My second toaster is a two slot unit with elongated slots for toasting really wide bread. Or it can toast four pieces of normal sized bread. It even has a count down timer so I can see how many seconds until my toast is done. I have plenty of counter space and outlets, so both are always out and plugged in.

[MV=PY]

Not bad, but he missed dependency injection.

[Vaduz]

Pre electricity days the skillet was the toaster still works better than a toaster.

[firebrand]

I wish I had the kind of toaster we had when I was a kid. Nothing ever popped up anywhere. It had two doors, with little handles, that opened down and you could see if the toast was done. If it wasn’t dark enough for you, you just . . . closed the door again.