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Personally I just use siri on my watch to set a timer.

I never know how long my washer of dryer is going to take. An event-based alert system seems way more reliable and convenient to me.

I just overshoot it a bit so I'm always there when it's done, an extra 20 minutes won't hurt.

I stick my head in the laundry room door and look/listen if the machine is still running.

lol I can tell it's running from all corners of the house and the loud ass buzzer when it ends is a great clue that it's stopped.

The laziest tech equivalence I can think of would be buying a baby monitor and mounting it in the laundry room.