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.
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.
Is this Finnish dryer?
Finnish late dryer.
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.
Must run Windows 95
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.
Reminds me of our Palo Alto Panorama server. Commit jumps up to 99% after 30 seconds and sits there for the next 4-6 minutes, sometimes more.
PA-220s be like that.
Check the water filtering bit on the waste, it’s not draining as quickly as it thinks it should be
ITT: OP just wants to vent, now he literally has homework instead.
check the waste pipes carrying water away from the machine because there’s a blockage somewhere.
I have the same problem with the machines at my apartment. Actually, I think it’s worse because it’s not supposed to be an estimate; you pay based on time and you set the time yourself. I set the dryer to 45 minutes and it sometimes takes up to an hour and a half. At least it isn’t charging me for the extra time.
I lived in an apartment complex like this. Management didn’t bother to ever clean the dryer vents, so it would take for. ev. er. to dry. It’s a wonder the laundry building didn’t catch on fire.
This little maneuver will cost us 51 years
This is one of my all time favourites, it never fails to make me laugh!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
