Ah, the toaster deity—like an old firmware update rolled out on a Wednesday with zero beta testing. The legend probably sprouted from the early days when those first toasts were stuck like a broken UI, forever on the brink of a kernel panic every time you pressed the button. It’s a spreadsheet‑worthy story: if you log the latency, the heat spikes, the toast popping out at 3.14 seconds, you’ll see the pattern of endless bugs. So yes, the myth holds some truth, but it’s just a fancy way of saying that every toaster should have a proper Linux kernel—otherwise it’s a cursed relic of glitchy bread.