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A friend of mine has Google Home and it just doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest! Perhaps I just don’t know how to get the most out of it, but whenever I go t

A friend of mine has Google Home and it just doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest! Perhaps I just don’t know how to get the most out of it, but whenever I go to his I either just ask it dumb questions or get it to change the music - to his frustration...

mmanfrin 9y ago
I've become a bit too used to using the echo as an alarm clock (which I can set without turning on a screen or looking at a light) and for morning/evening news briefings, which is really just a proxy to NPR/BBC podcasts, but it's useful. It is definitely something that I wish there was a 'self hosted' version of that was anywhere near as capable.
- Fifer82 9y ago
  Really? I mean, Really???? You have an unregulated device in your home, mining away on data which... you paid for, hard cash. Not a game, not a movie, not a simulation, not an experience. And your only use is an Alarm Clock? This is gold mate, gold. You know when people say "ach, the guy is just an idiot with money"? mmanfrin is what I see.
  - rdruxn 9y ago
    Comments like this inspire me to reach HN’s 500 upvote floor just so I can downvote you.
    - deleted 9y ago
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    - Fifer82 9y ago
      I got to 500 easy enough, I suggest decent posts. Points on HN in 2017, is like reddit points in 2012, like 4chan in 2009. It has no value and you sleep like a baby whether hated or otherwise.
      - megaman22 9y ago
        One or two good submissions that take off can net you 500 points. But hell, they're internet points, so they are approximately as valuable as dogecoin.
        y4mi 9y ago
        I'll just leave this here - dogecoins total market cap: $746,599,233 USD
    - dang 9y ago
      I appreciate your concern for comment quality, but please don't respond to a bad comment by posting another. That amounts to feeding trolls and the site guidelines ask you not to do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Instead, the thing to do is flag egregious comments, as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. You don't need nearly as much karma to do that, and we review most flagged comments.
  - sctb 9y ago
    If you comment like this again we'll ban the account. Please read the guidelines and start following them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mmanfrin 9y ago

I've become a bit too used to using the echo as an alarm clock (which I can set without turning on a screen or looking at a light) and for morning/evening news briefings, which is really just a proxy to NPR/BBC podcasts, but it's useful. It is definitely something that I wish there was a 'self hosted' version of that was anywhere near as capable.

Fifer82 9y ago
Really? I mean, Really???? You have an unregulated device in your home, mining away on data which... you paid for, hard cash. Not a game, not a movie, not a simulation, not an experience. And your only use is an Alarm Clock? This is gold mate, gold. You know when people say "ach, the guy is just an idiot with money"? mmanfrin is what I see.
- rdruxn 9y ago
  Comments like this inspire me to reach HN’s 500 upvote floor just so I can downvote you.
  - deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
  - Fifer82 9y ago
    I got to 500 easy enough, I suggest decent posts. Points on HN in 2017, is like reddit points in 2012, like 4chan in 2009. It has no value and you sleep like a baby whether hated or otherwise.
    - megaman22 9y ago
      One or two good submissions that take off can net you 500 points. But hell, they're internet points, so they are approximately as valuable as dogecoin.
      - y4mi 9y ago
        I'll just leave this here - dogecoins total market cap: $746,599,233 USD
  - dang 9y ago
    I appreciate your concern for comment quality, but please don't respond to a bad comment by posting another. That amounts to feeding trolls and the site guidelines ask you not to do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Instead, the thing to do is flag egregious comments, as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. You don't need nearly as much karma to do that, and we review most flagged comments.
- sctb 9y ago
  If you comment like this again we'll ban the account. Please read the guidelines and start following them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html