My Siemens dishwasher is smart and it’s got a nice feature where from my phone I can set it to start or finish washing at a certain time.

Except, if there is a power failure it forgets the schedule. At the moment in South Africa we lose power 2-4 times a day for 2 hours at a time due to load shedding (useless government and power utility). This powerloss scenario is not a rare edge case here.

It’s a pity because I would like to schedule the dishwasher to start after the power is due back (the load shedding is on a mostly reliable schedule), but with this loss of memory, that doesn’t work.

Relatedly, on my oven (and the AEG one at my previous place) you can’t turn them on until you set the clock, as someone who lives where there are multiple power outages a day, this seems like the most counter productive “feature” ever, is it actually useful in some way?