Pure convenience here. Sure, 20 year old me would hate me for putting cloud connected smart speakers in my home but I'm not 20 anymore and available time was re

Pure convenience here. Sure, 20 year old me would hate me for putting cloud connected smart speakers in my home but I'm not 20 anymore and available time was replaced by available money. I honestly looked and would have paid more for a fully local speech to text hub with basic apps and a nice API but there simply wasn't anything that looked like it wouldn't annoy the living hell out of me. I don't want to setup raspberry pis around my house, maintain and update weird open source stacks and whatnot. I want to stream stuff to speakers, control devices around the house through voice and sometimes use other convenience functions. Fully realizing the hit on privacy, I understand the thing enough and, more importantly, trust my particular manufacturer enough that it simply outweighs that concern for me.