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> Amazon Alexa: routines like pre-set alarms were not functioning. It's ridiculous how everything is being stored in the cloud, even simple timers. It's past h
by mentalgear 1y ago
> Amazon Alexa: routines like pre-set alarms were not functioning.
It's ridiculous how everything is being stored in the cloud, even simple timers. It's past high time to move functionality back on-device, which would come with the advantage of making it easier to de-connect from big tech's capitalist surveillance state as well.
- Itanu 1y agoexactly why it won't happen :)
- freedomben 1y agoExactly. I half-seriously like to say things like, "I'm excited for a time when we have powerful enough computers to actually run applications on them instead of being limited to only thin clients." Only problem is most of the younger people don't get the reference anymore, so it's mainly the olds that get it