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People used to have passive displays of the outdoor weather, that could be checked handsfree.[0] No voice-recognition spy machine necessary. [0] http://www.le

• ivm 10y ago
  Or you can buy a bit more advanced but disconnected from IoT botnet: https://www.amazon.com/AcuRite-02027A1-Forecast-Temperature-Humidity/dp/B00GLDQFPY/ https://www.amazon.com/AcuRite-02027A1-Forecast-Temperature-...
• semi-extrinsic 10y ago
  Personally, I devote the upper 1/8th of my phone's homescreen to a widget that shows a weather graph (temp, rain/snow, wind) for the next 36 hours. The forecast updates every 2 hours. But then again, we live a few hours north of the location where they filmed the Battle of Hoth. Asking anyone, let alone a machine, "what is the weather outside" gives you little information about the weather in six hours.
  • ddebernardy 10y ago
    Must be interesting to live that far north. FWIW further south people configure their phones likewise because the question of whether there will be rain is when rather than if - or at least during the rainier season(s).
• ThomPete 10y ago
  Yes good point, my granddad had barometer etc. There is something about the tangibility of information we use a lot. Instead of it being hidden behind login, app launch etc we just access it directly.