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> Then I went directly to Amazon and ordered an Alexa. Dear lord.

by itodd 4mo ago

nativeit 4mo ago
Well, now when she wants to know the symptoms of dehydration, she can purchase some sort of Gatorade really convenient like.
reilly3000 4mo ago
She sounds addicted to toxic relationships.
goopthink 4mo ago
> I ordered it because when one superpower fails you, eventually you have to try the other one before they eventually ruin the thing that was working perfectly well before they tried to improve it in order to make enough money to be a trio of planets. When your options are a few competing BigCos and you don’t have incentive to try to build it for yourself because it straddles the annoying in-between space of “frustrating enough to do something” and “ not frustrating or valuable enough to actually solve the problem.”
daveguy 4mo ago
And how about this: > The closest I could get to punching Google in the ear and ripping out its nose hairs. As if giving more money to another shitty megacorp for another frustrating device is going to make any difference to the first shitty megacorp.
kwanbix 4mo ago
I sadly did the same as I didn't know best. The Google speakers started to have issues identifying the orders, so we bought some alexas, which we also use as speakers for our tvs. Do you have a better recommendation of a smart speaker that can play spotify, youtube music, or tidal?
psanford 4mo ago
I got rid of my Alexa devices after they would not shut up. "Alexa what is the weather for today?" "The weather for today will be ... By the way, did you know that you can set alarms? Just say ..." I do not care about whatever stupid feature you want to build engagement around. Do what I asked you to do and then shut up. And don't get me started on the Alexa Show that had the audacity to display ads.
- jorts 4mo ago
  I threw all my Alexa devices away due to that as well.
- shinydevops 4mo ago
  For all ten people this will help, "Alexa, disable 'by the way'" works wonders. And for scorched earth, "Alexa, set a reminder for 8 AM to disable 'by the way'" is an option. I haven't heard a single 'by the way' in many moons.

> Then I went directly to Amazon and ordered an Alexa. Dear lord.

by itodd 4mo ago

> Then I went directly to Amazon and ordered an Alexa. Dear lord.

Well, now when she wants to know the symptoms of dehydration, she can purchase some sort of Gatorade really convenient like.

reilly3000 4mo ago

She sounds addicted to toxic relationships.

goopthink 4mo ago

> I ordered it because when one superpower fails you, eventually you have to try the other one before they eventually ruin the thing that was working perfectly well before they tried to improve it in order to make enough money to be a trio of planets. When your options are a few competing BigCos and you don’t have incentive to try to build it for yourself because it straddles the annoying in-between space of “frustrating enough to do something” and “ not frustrating or valuable enough to actually solve the problem.”

daveguy 4mo ago

And how about this: > The closest I could get to punching Google in the ear and ripping out its nose hairs. As if giving more money to another shitty megacorp for another frustrating device is going to make any difference to the first shitty megacorp.

kwanbix 4mo ago

I sadly did the same as I didn't know best. The Google speakers started to have issues identifying the orders, so we bought some alexas, which we also use as speakers for our tvs. Do you have a better recommendation of a smart speaker that can play spotify, youtube music, or tidal?

psanford 4mo ago

I got rid of my Alexa devices after they would not shut up. "Alexa what is the weather for today?" "The weather for today will be ... By the way, did you know that you can set alarms? Just say ..." I do not care about whatever stupid feature you want to build engagement around. Do what I asked you to do and then shut up. And don't get me started on the Alexa Show that had the audacity to display ads.

jorts 4mo ago
I threw all my Alexa devices away due to that as well.
shinydevops 4mo ago
For all ten people this will help, "Alexa, disable 'by the way'" works wonders. And for scorched earth, "Alexa, set a reminder for 8 AM to disable 'by the way'" is an option. I haven't heard a single 'by the way' in many moons.