Those aren't minutes, they're drying time units, which last as long as the dryer decides it wants them to last on any particular day.

One thing I pride myself on is the ability to see through my dryer's bullshit. I know that 30 minutes really means 45 you damn liar.

"Two minutes, Turkish."

I much prefer hang drying.

• Less wear on the clothes
• Basically no energy cost (technically not correct but it's really whatever)
• Free humidifying during the dry winters
• Fairly satisfying thing to do while listening to a podcast

The primary downside is that it's no fun to do it when it rains, neither indoors or outdoors, but as long as you time your laundry well enough, it's all good.

Then the lying whore sings a cheerful little tune after it fucked up my schedule.

How can this be an estimation, and how is it so wrong? Doesn't the program just have a hard-coded length? Or does the time vary based on clothing weight or something? This seems so utterly strange to me.

Our dryer does this to us:

Put clothes in, start it - it estimates 35 units of time. Come back in 15 minutes to check, it says 15 units left. Come back in 15 minutes, it now says 21 units left.

I am, like all of us, unsure of the fundamental nature of time. But the dryer even more so. The units are not one standard length, and they don't move always in the same direction.

Time to clean your dryer venting.

Had the exact same experience the other day. Fuck these machines, fuck printers, fuck microwave ovens, fuck software updates and fuck time estimates in general.

OP looking down on the unwashed masses after complaining about his fancy washing machine:

My washing machine over-estimates at first, it drops nearly an hour after it gets going. However, it will underestimate later on.

Also, it does this thing where it beeps that it's starting, doesn't do anything, then unlocks the door for a few seconds, then locks it again and actually starts. That's been a life saver for catching that one sock that got left behind and didn't make it into the drum.

My dryer has a couple different presets which all adjust the remaining time dynamically according to a predetermind dryness level. To get around this, I just use the "custom" setting and change the temperature and timer manually.

Must be a Welsh machine. I'll be there now, in a minute.

I much prefer an estimating timer that reliably dries all the clothes rather than a reliable timer that estimates the clothes are dry.

I see you bought a dryer that's in Hawaiian time

No worries, just go with the flow it'll work out

Fun fact though typically the last little bit of drying in the dryer is just cool down time, so just reach in there and grab those toasty boxers, you'll be fine

Kind of like estimations in software development.

The developers just put their own logic into its estimation software.

That's a fancy dryer.

Mines purely mechanical. Old school timer runs the dryer

We call it “the longest minute” in my house.

Im still waiting for the last edit OP, dont leave us hanging