Why are there usb ports on the microwave?

[plan_a_to_y@furry.engineer]

@futurebird because their lead designer got tricked by a "charge your phone using a microwave" video and decided to make it real.

[khm@hj.9fs.net]

SDR (software defined radiation)

[admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com]

@futurebird Potentially *correct* answer: the [microwave brand] engineers must be fans of Allen Pan:

https://www.wired.com/video/watch/video-game-microwave-that-only-cooks-while-i-play

[wrosecrans@mstdn.social]

@futurebird You plug in a USB cable and use it to stir whatever you are taking out if the microwave. Perhaps occasionally even doing it intentionally. This also charges the food to replace any electrons that got loose during cooking.

[captainpilot@mastodon.social]

@futurebird that's because you need special USB dongle to unlock the "grill" function

[apophis@yourwalls.today]

@futurebird for usb drives when you gotta cook the books real quick

[phooky@hexa.club]

@futurebird not enough room for a parallel port

[hopland@snabelen.no]

@futurebird it's for pumping Open Sauce. Don't mix up the cables now, or your laptop gets filled with ragoo.

[bryanredeagle@beige.party]

@futurebird It's a modular add on system a la 90s consoles. You put the microwave on a big base that also doubles as a DVD player or a dial up modem or a rumble pack.

[ciro_mango@mastodon.uno]

@futurebird to connect keybord and mouse to move it with wasd

[gdinwiddie@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Because not everything can be recharged with RF energy.

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@futurebird you put your cereal into those ports. Two cheerios at the same time!

[jumpmed@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Download the codes for the nukes

[sanityinc@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird Every microwave oven is also an incredibly slow-spinning and inefficient usb hard disk

[bjorndown@mastodon.social]

@futurebird so you can upload a picture of the meal you want to heat up. from it the microwave will deduce how long the meal has to be heated until it is blazing hot outside and just about lukewarm in the middle.

[sitcom_nemesis@tech.lgbt]

@futurebird to enable loading of custom firmware so you can actually play doom on it

[bryan@dusty.ninja]

@futurebird
Good design.

[stealthytango@mastodon.world]

@futurebird if you plug the left one into the right one, the power goes round in circles providing unlimited free cooking - so long as you don't open the door and let the microwave escape.

[robertklaschka@mastodon.online]

@futurebird I am pretty sure you can download food on to a memory stick and then take it to another microwave to upload.

[bk1e@mastodon.social]

@futurebird to support USB Swanson-the-Go