The washing machine panel thing in my apartment has these metal buttons that are perhaps the most satisfying metal buttons I’ve ever pressed in my life. If my neurospicy brain had a swimming pool of these things I would die happily of starvation while flopping around pressing as many as I could. How in the world do I track down a featureless metal button and know I’m getting the right thing without being able to press them before buying? Are there like names for different types of buttons? What kind of rabbit hole am I looking at here? I want to refit my computer to have one of these things as my power button

I’ve added a pic but I have a video too which gives sound feedback. Idk how to post that though

  • Nimrod@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The button has a part number on the housing - but I’m pretty sure the apartment manager would frown on you opening the machine up.

    One idea: find the model number of the washing machine and contact the manufacturer to see if they can give you a part number for the button and/or sell you a replacement part.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipOP
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      6 days ago

      One of the problems is that it is the co trol panel outside the washing room to get I to the room not the actual machine itself. It’s a blank box but maybe I could dig into the menus to find something or contact the landlords for more info?