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Do you have "echo" or Alexa?
Posted on 7/29/19 at 11:40 am
Posted on 7/29/19 at 11:40 am
I have had one for a few months now and she has proven to be a valuable resource to my home. She wakes me up every morning. She reminds me of appointments and anything else I ask her to remind me of. She tells jokes, makes calls and it was well worth a hundred bucks. I know she spies on me but my smartphone does the same thing
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Posted on 7/29/19 at 11:43 am to Commander Data
Is this a trick question or something?
Posted on 7/29/19 at 11:56 am to corndawg85
No. I guess I could have worded my question differently. Echo, otherwise known as Alexa.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 12:20 pm to Commander Data
My in laws got us an Echo last christmas, still haven't taken it out of the box.
I do appreciate all the features it has but I've just read too many horror stories about those thigns. Yes I know our phones track our activity and I sound like an old man but I generally just dislike the fact there's a microphone in teh livign room that can hear everything I say. I've read stories about a couple having a casual conversation and they said something to trigger theri echo/alexa and it emailed a full transcript of their conversation to all their contacts lol. I don't want that.
We also don't really have a "smart home" so it wouldn't be able to lock the doors or turn off lights or anythig.
I do appreciate all the features it has but I've just read too many horror stories about those thigns. Yes I know our phones track our activity and I sound like an old man but I generally just dislike the fact there's a microphone in teh livign room that can hear everything I say. I've read stories about a couple having a casual conversation and they said something to trigger theri echo/alexa and it emailed a full transcript of their conversation to all their contacts lol. I don't want that.
We also don't really have a "smart home" so it wouldn't be able to lock the doors or turn off lights or anythig.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 12:26 pm to Commander Data
I play Skyrim on mine
Posted on 7/29/19 at 1:00 pm to Commander Data
I would say you just paid to bug your own home...but i guess the phones can do that also. Cant escape!
Taking off my tin foil hat now
Taking off my tin foil hat now
Posted on 7/29/19 at 5:08 pm to BoozeDawg
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I would say you just paid to bug your own home...but i guess the phones can do that also. Cant escape!
Didn’t we sign up for this with the Patriot Act?
I feel like now everyone is freaking out. But after 9/11 everyone was like “yes! We need to look at everything!”
My Alexa probably hates me because I get 1 outta 6 on Jeopardy everyday
“This Guy is a fricking idiot”
Posted on 7/29/19 at 5:17 pm to WG_Dawg
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read stories about a couple having a casual conversation and they said something to trigger theri echo/alexa and it emailed a full transcript of their conversation to all their contacts lol. I don't want that.
Surely that didn't really happen. I have seen my Alexa respond to things she hears from our living room television but nothing horrific like that. I have her in my bedroom too. I know that Amazon can and probably does collect "data" and such but all of the big companies do.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 5:28 pm to Commander Data
I use Alexa for an incredible number of things:
Lights
Switches
Microwave
TV
Phone
Ordering on Amazon
Locks on doors
Blinds on windows
Garage door opener
Lawn sprinkler
Security cameras
Security system (SimpliSafe)
Ceiling fans
Refrigerator
Entertainment:
Music
Videos
Games
TV
Communication:
Phone
Drop-in to rooms of the house
Texting
Many other things I can’t recall right now.
Lights
Switches
Microwave
TV
Phone
Ordering on Amazon
Locks on doors
Blinds on windows
Garage door opener
Lawn sprinkler
Security cameras
Security system (SimpliSafe)
Ceiling fans
Refrigerator
Entertainment:
Music
Videos
Games
TV
Communication:
Phone
Drop-in to rooms of the house
Texting
Many other things I can’t recall right now.
Posted on 7/29/19 at 5:29 pm to Commander Data
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read stories about a couple having a casual conversation and they said something to trigger theri echo/alexa and it emailed a full transcript of their conversation to all their contacts lol. I don't want that.
Surely that didn't really happen. I have seen my Alexa respond to things she hears from our living room television but nothing horrific like that. I have her in my bedroom too. I know that Amazon can and probably does collect "data" and such but all of the big companies do.
Last thing i need is some device sending out some wild shite i said to all my contacts. I can frick that up on my own. That 4am drunken text meant for a girl i knew that went to my aunt was ....lets just say "awkward"
Posted on 7/30/19 at 7:33 am to Commander Data
Posted on 7/30/19 at 9:28 am to Commander Data
quote:frick no
Do you have "echo" or Alexa?
Posted on 7/30/19 at 9:50 am to Commander Data
Why do you need one when all the phones do the same thing now?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 6:36 am to Commander Data
No. They are spying on u, recording you.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 8:36 am to TT9
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Why do you need one when all the phones do the same thing now?
Why not have both?
Posted on 8/1/19 at 10:04 am to TinGym
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They are spying on u, recording you.
I know. I kill the Wi-Fi when a "client" is over. LOL.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 2:11 pm to Commander Data
We havre one, we have exactly one thing hooked up to it..a living room lamp.
My wife will sit within inches of the pull chain to turn it on and sit there and screech "allexa,. turn on the lamp" like 4 times before it either turns on or she realized the kids have unplugged it or have used the switch to turn it off. Then it is all messed up and she has to turn it back on to reset the sequence or some shite like that.
Oh, and the kids dont understand how the play music works, so they ask it to play music that we dont have, constantly.
It does do.a good job of setting timers for kids to go to bed though, so there is that.
My wife will sit within inches of the pull chain to turn it on and sit there and screech "allexa,. turn on the lamp" like 4 times before it either turns on or she realized the kids have unplugged it or have used the switch to turn it off. Then it is all messed up and she has to turn it back on to reset the sequence or some shite like that.
Oh, and the kids dont understand how the play music works, so they ask it to play music that we dont have, constantly.
It does do.a good job of setting timers for kids to go to bed though, so there is that.
Posted on 8/1/19 at 4:15 pm to Commander Data
Thinking the government or some stupid company is out to get you shows how inflated your egos are.
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