The whole wash was estimated 72 minutes when it started.
It weighs the clothes by inertia in the beginning, I didn’t overload, and the water (hot and cold) comes in fast through thick pipes, so there’s no excuse for this.
How dumb must the program be to estimate one minute left in the beginning of the rinse cycle with two rinses and a spin cycle to go?
The building and presumably the machine were made 2018, and the maintenance log on the side says many repairs have been made since, so the software must have been updated many times already.
This little maneuver will cost us 51 years
This is something I always loved about macOS: the file copy dialogue was always very accurate.
Clearly you use different Macs than the ones I’m familiar with (although to be fair, it’s not as bad as it used to be). But I’ve heard them called “Apple minutes” due to the same thing.
In the 25 years of Mac OS X and macOS (and 15 years of NeXTEP/OPENSTEP before/after that, I invite you to provide any reference at all to this phenomenon you mentioned. I suggest that you can’t.
Usually this indicates that the drainage cycle is repeated again and again as the wash is still “too wet”.
Could have all kinds of reasons, check the drain sieve in particular, mine had this silver “sheen” clogging everything that was packed and hardened bits of plastic and fibre mushed together.
A clogged drainage filter will make it take longer than anticipated. It’s usually lack of maintenance when these timers get THIS bad.
But even different materials hold water differently, it’s all an estimate based off of averages. Washing bedding or wool items? Probably gonna be 15% longer.
You know what that means - sounds like your washer needs some good old fashioned Generative AI!
Imagine you can set a theme of your choice like “Star Trek technobabble” for little explanations for the delay.
“Delay due to chirality recalibration of phase discriminating amplifier for positronic brain…”
Might literally be one of the best use cases I’ve seen so far!
“Reconfiguring the primary power coupling” is my explanation when people ask of how I’m fixing something when I’m just unplugging it, waiting 10 seconds, and plugging it back in.
Maybe it’s not the water intake but the drainage pump taking longer than expected, prolonging the last cycles? I have a machine that does that, coincidentally
That pump is inside the machine – I shall observe whether the water comes out (to an open drain) as fast as usual, and if not, report to maintenance.
Or if you use too much detergent it builds foam that needs more time to dissolve.
Check the water filtering bit on the waste, it’s not draining as quickly as it thinks it should be
check the waste pipes carrying water away from the machine because there’s a blockage somewhere.
This happens once in a while with my washer as well. My determination is that it starts to spin and is so far out of balance that it has to refill and swirl the clothes around a bit, then drain it to hopefully get a more even balance of mass so that it can properly spin. It’s much worse when there are large items, like a blanket that tend to lump on one side.
I know that modern dryers often use a humidity sensor, and I can imagine that it’s maybe hard to project that.
But I don’t know what sort of sensors or dynamic wash time a washer would use. I thought that they were just timer-based.
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Oh. Sounds like they use water level sensors and time to drain is a factor, so if the draining is really slow, that it’ll do that.
My clothes washer has had one minute left for the past 7 minutes. (i.redd.it)
Funny… Someone else had a similar issue a few days ago. This was my reply to them:
This sounds like a drainage issue. Not uncommon. I first learned of this on my previous washer several years ago.
The machine took a lot longer to drain than it should have, so what should’ve taken a minute or two, took 15.
A potential cause is that your drainage filter is clogged. Most people don’t even know they have one, much less how to clean it.
In MOST modern washers, it’s behind a small hatch on the front of the machine. (It may be located elsewhere, depending on your model.). Open the hatch, pull out a short hose, unplug the stopper on the hose to drain any excess water (into a small container of some sort). Then remove the filter…
The filter itself is typically a cylindrical piece that resides next to the hose. The filter may need to be unlocked somehow to remove it, but either way, once you slide it out you can clear it off of any buildup of hair, lint, and other gunk that’s collected on it.
Check your user manual (or Google) for your specific model.
If they have a display capable of it, might be a good idea for washers to suggest to the user that it’s draining slowly and that checking the filter might be in order.
Mine has a filter light that comes on after a couple months or when it detects slow draining. Techs expensive and people buy cheap appliances. Than bitch that they aren’t fancy.
Microsoft Washer ?
Wash 1% complete… 2% complete… 5% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 15% complete… 99% complete… 99% complete… 99% complete… 99% complete…
Time is relative.
Lunch undoubtedly so
Hate to be pedantic. But it’s “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so”
Gonna need an attribution to go with that quotation, pedant.
If it helps, the dryer in our apartment makes a super loud buzzing for 10 seconds twice whenever it finishes unless you twist the dial to stop it early. And by loud, I mean you hear it from your neighboring apartments too. And it’s not a bug, we checked. It’s a feature.
ITT: OP just wants to vent, now he literally has homework instead.
Whenever my wife and I are talking about our washer and drier we joke that it has “13 left” (instead of “13 minutes left”) because the UI only says 13 and it often goes up again lol.
To co-sign on the stupidity of embedded washing machine firmware, if we lose power, the next time you start the washing machine you’re presented with an error message saying the power has failed. Like, no duh. You have to acknowledge the error message before you can start a new load.
