> Why does an oven need a computer in the first place?
What do you mean? What else is going to control the temperature, display, timer, etc.? I’m pretty sure my oven from 25 years ago had what I would call a “computer”.
What do you mean? What else is going to control the temperature, display, timer, etc.? I’m pretty sure my oven from 25 years ago had what I would call a “computer”.
Something like a circuit board with a bunch of discretes would be how I would expect an oven from 25 years ago to look. Maybe there's a microcontroller to coordinate things, but I think you could get by without it
https://www.cookerspareparts.com/news/post/gas-oven-thermost...
An op-amp and a thermistor and variable resistor (for selecting the desired temperature), perhaps? I dunno though, I don't even have a GCSE in electronics.
> display, timer
Why does it have these? My oven doesn't have these, just an LED that lights up when the oven is on but yet hot enough.
Because people want them, and more.
> My oven doesn't have these, just an LED that lights up when the oven is on but yet hot enough.
I’m glad you have that option, but I’m not interested in using appliances that are no more advanced than what my great grandparents used.
And what's to display? It's an oven, not a website. Temperature is a dial, is it hot enough or not is just yes/no.
Just like your Internet connected listening devices.
We get as many timers as we want, whenever we want, summoned out of the αἰθήρ as needed whenever we invoke the names of the synthetic húsvættir that have shipped in all our phones for the last decade or so.
The question is "why do you need yet another one?", and the fact you think it is so important that it has to be specifically embodied on an oven as to be flabbergasted that I don't think it's important, seems… well, I won't call you "willfully obtuse" because I recognise how minds other than mine work differently, but it does seem very silly.