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My Echo is near my kitchen, and I mostly use it when I am doing stuff there. So I can tell it to play my news briefing and get the weather while I make my coffe

by neaden 9y ago

My Echo is near my kitchen, and I mostly use it when I am doing stuff there. So I can tell it to play my news briefing and get the weather while I make my coffee in the morning. I can listen to music, set timers, and convert units when I am cooking and may have touched raw meat. The speaker is also much better than my phones, so its nice to be able to tell it to play specific songs, playlists, artists, or stations when I want to listen to music.

lern_too_spel 9y ago
I do literally none of those things. I prefer TV to radio, have measuring instruments in the right units, and my oven has an easy to use timer that will even shut the oven off — no smart plugs required.
- dpark 9y ago
  > my oven has an easy to use timer that will even shut the oven off Mine too. I literally never use it because turning off the oven is not the timer's job. An external timer is much more friendly, because often the thing I'm cooking still needs 5 more minutes, or needs to be basted again in 20 minutes, etc.
  - lern_too_spel 9y ago
    When that happens, I easily add another 5 minutes to the timer.
    - dpark 9y ago
      No. If your timer turns off the oven, you turn the oven on and then set a timer. Much more annoying than just setting the timer.
      - lern_too_spel 9y ago
        The controls are right next to each other, unlike with a separate timer and oven. You're trading one annoying thing for an even more annoying thing. With voice-only control, you add the annoyance of dealing with voice confirmations on top of that and have no way to glance at a timer and see how much time is left.
        dpark 9y ago
        > The controls are right next to each other, unlike with a separate timer and oven. You're trading one annoying thing for an even more annoying thing. I fail to see how it's more annoying to not have the timer incorrectly shut off the oven. Coupling oven functionality to the timer just makes the timer less convenient. Using it to time basting etc is far more annoying and you essentially just can't use it for, say, timing something on the stove. > With voice-only control, you add the annoyance of dealing with voice confirmations on top of that and have no way to glance at a timer and see how much time is left. "Alexa, how much time is left on the timer?" You lose the ability to look directly at the timer, but you gain the ability to check the timer when you're in the pantry, or across the room with guests or playing with your kids.
        lern_too_spel 9y ago
        My oven timer has an option not to turn off the oven in the rare cases when I don't want to turn off the oven, but I can see this is going nowhere. You use timers differently. You apparently want to know the time left in another room more often than you want to know the time left in the same room, like I do. Maybe you have measuring instruments in the wrong units, too. To each their own.
        dpark 9y ago
        > Maybe you have measuring instruments in the wrong units, too. Maybe this makes you feel superior but it also makes you look like a prick. This is completely unrelated to the topic.
        9y ago

by neaden 9y ago

lern_too_spel 9y ago

I do literally none of those things. I prefer TV to radio, have measuring instruments in the right units, and my oven has an easy to use timer that will even shut the oven off — no smart plugs required.

dpark 9y ago
> my oven has an easy to use timer that will even shut the oven off Mine too. I literally never use it because turning off the oven is not the timer's job. An external timer is much more friendly, because often the thing I'm cooking still needs 5 more minutes, or needs to be basted again in 20 minutes, etc.
- lern_too_spel 9y ago
  When that happens, I easily add another 5 minutes to the timer.
  - dpark 9y ago
    No. If your timer turns off the oven, you turn the oven on and then set a timer. Much more annoying than just setting the timer.
    - lern_too_spel 9y ago
      The controls are right next to each other, unlike with a separate timer and oven. You're trading one annoying thing for an even more annoying thing. With voice-only control, you add the annoyance of dealing with voice confirmations on top of that and have no way to glance at a timer and see how much time is left.
      - dpark 9y ago
        > The controls are right next to each other, unlike with a separate timer and oven. You're trading one annoying thing for an even more annoying thing. I fail to see how it's more annoying to not have the timer incorrectly shut off the oven. Coupling oven functionality to the timer just makes the timer less convenient. Using it to time basting etc is far more annoying and you essentially just can't use it for, say, timing something on the stove. > With voice-only control, you add the annoyance of dealing with voice confirmations on top of that and have no way to glance at a timer and see how much time is left. "Alexa, how much time is left on the timer?" You lose the ability to look directly at the timer, but you gain the ability to check the timer when you're in the pantry, or across the room with guests or playing with your kids.
        lern_too_spel 9y ago
        My oven timer has an option not to turn off the oven in the rare cases when I don't want to turn off the oven, but I can see this is going nowhere. You use timers differently. You apparently want to know the time left in another room more often than you want to know the time left in the same room, like I do. Maybe you have measuring instruments in the wrong units, too. To each their own.
        dpark 9y ago
        > Maybe you have measuring instruments in the wrong units, too. Maybe this makes you feel superior but it also makes you look like a prick. This is completely unrelated to the topic.
        9y ago