> It's crazy to me that you are ruling out a power surge frying a board. Same thing could happen to the 80s model as well.
I'm taking OP at their word, in part because I don't feel like doing free-of-charge remote diagnostics on a microwave over a communications channel with such an absurdly high RTT. Based on your poor choice of counterexample, I was assuming that you didn't understand the difference between "as safe as we can reasonably make it" design and "it only appears to be safe" design (which is the worst kind).
> Don't put any limbs inside when it's on, and it really isn't that dangerous...
If true, then I'd wonder why they bother with any shielding at all. They'd save a bunch of money by putting a clear glass or plastic plate in front of the door, rather than all that metal, don'tcha think?
> Again, your microwave isn't a demon core.
Lots and lots of dangerous things are less dangerous than plutonium cores that are just raring to fizz a little. That doesn't mean that the safety mechanisms mandated to be incorporated in their design are obviously superfluous.
I'm taking OP at their word, in part because I don't feel like doing free-of-charge remote diagnostics on a microwave over a communications channel with such an absurdly high RTT. Based on your poor choice of counterexample, I was assuming that you didn't understand the difference between "as safe as we can reasonably make it" design and "it only appears to be safe" design (which is the worst kind).
> Don't put any limbs inside when it's on, and it really isn't that dangerous...
If true, then I'd wonder why they bother with any shielding at all. They'd save a bunch of money by putting a clear glass or plastic plate in front of the door, rather than all that metal, don'tcha think?
> Again, your microwave isn't a demon core.
Lots and lots of dangerous things are less dangerous than plutonium cores that are just raring to fizz a little. That doesn't mean that the safety mechanisms mandated to be incorporated in their design are obviously superfluous.