You’re not wrong there, the capacitor can indeed be dangerous!

I happen to be quite well experienced in repairing and rebuilding microwave ovens though, and it’s not like I leave the thing disassembled for random people to come along and stick their fingers in the wiring.

The modification I mentioned is fairly simple though, just take out the light bulb so that doesn’t stay on when the door is open, and bypass whatever timer circutry they have, whether it be analog, digital, or even subscription based digital bullshit these days.

Underneath the hood of every microwave oven is a sequence of 3 safety switches all activated by the mechanics of the door latch, required by law, to make damn sure it can’t emit radiation when the door is open. Take proper advantage of that knowledge and knowing the internals of a microwave oven, and it’s pretty easy to bypass the timer.

The only true danger with such modification is if you fuck up and forget your popcorn or frozen pizza or whatever, as the microwave will end up running indefinitely until you open the door. Used responsibly though, it’s just fine, but you gotta keep an eye on your own food and an eye on your own watch/clock.

Kids in the house though? Nah, I wouldn’t trust that sort of mod near kids for even 5 seconds.

We gotta go test these things in the back yard…

Honestly not as dangerous as you might think. Just keep the kids and pets away, and watch your own timer for your frozen pizza…

Remove the light, obviously. Bypass the control circuit…

Geez, didn’t Electroboom teach you anything?

Don’t do these things at home, obviously…

I don’t even need a timer for the microwave oven. I just rig that shit up where when you close the door, it cooks, and when you open it, well it stops cooking.

Don’t ask why, had to temporarily fix things for my mom. At least we didn’t have kids around the place…

Edit: AI can suck my nugz…

Bleh, I told Oracle to literally fuck off (they redacted a couple of my messages), because I was trying to debug their Sound Blaster 16 emulation…

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=12425

I opened that bug ticket in 2008. It’s still open today, because Oracle basically gave me the corporate version of fuckoff, while I was only acting as a volunteer debug coder.

I think I have one of the longest still open bug tickets in existence, and they can sugma…

Well you sound like a pleasant individual, happy holidays to you as well.

Whatever software you were working on, I’m pretty sure most people aren’t inclined to support douchebag developers…

Umm, okay.

Why wait? If you don’t like the fediverse, I’m sure you can find the exit…

I’ll take your word on that, I already feel like I wasted enough minutes of life even bothering to look into this nonsense…

That’s the only reason I even heard about the whole 67 thing, when it came up on our local news regarding fast food restaurants.

It’s ridiculous, and honestly I feel like I’ve wasted minutes from my life even asking, but hey, now I loosely get it…

It still makes little sense to me, but whatever 🤷

Oh I ain’t worried about it or anything, just curious really.

Nah, no VPN here. I had tried loading the video earlier like 5 times and it simply wouldn’t play. Oddly enough, now it plays fine on Grayjay… 🤷

Video refuses to play on Grayjay right now, at least on my end… ☹️

This is why the Egyptians had stone walls and ceilings, and ran the water pipes far away… 🤷

The activation key is…

WINDOWS-SUX

You can thank me later.

Works fine here. Have you tried Tor Browser and/or a VPN?

This guy maths the math…

LOL, I’ve actually tried Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Puppy Linux, DSL, Tiny Core, and even the true outlier (not quite Linux or Unix though) Microsoft Xenix before. I’ve probably even tried a couple other distros before but only very briefly.

It takes effort to break them in any way that I can’t manage to figure out how to fix.

I settled on Linux Mint as my daily runner, but one of these days I might have to give TempleOS a spin in a virtual machine…

You act like the everyday user knows how to boot from alternate sources.

BIOS/UEFI/Secure Boot anyone?

Edit: I’ve been running Linux since 2011, but I’m not an average everyday user.

BREAKING: Man breaks Linux, installs another distro, and lives happily ever after.

Nubby? Where are you?