No start button or stop button or open button, because the door opening and closing is better than the old microwaves. I’d be willing to discuss a +30s start button which moved the knob into the right place for you, and some sort of digital timer for potentially easier reading from a distance. My ideal microwave has only the following controls: such a dial (you could do some pretty fancy active magnetic design on it to improve it and make it precise, over the old knobs), probably another dial or slider (I’m open to trying it out) for power level, and that’s it. Barring the question of precision (which could be more or less solved with a more strikingly non-linear dial), that’s positively superb. Old microwaves had a clear, directional knob with a start point, an end point, and markings for the values they represented. (Another example: ebooks with unanchored scrolling instead of physical books with pagination where you can feel how far you are through the book. This is a standard failing of modern things: it’s easier to implement generically useful functionality this way, but it’s objectively inferior in most concrete cases. Such knobs are fairly lousy in this way: they lack a start and end point.
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