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I'll never understand people who insist on using voice assistants over just typing these things out. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This picture isn't mine BTW. I don't have an Apple Watch and never want to buy one.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I didn't say they should use it or buy one. Just to try it out because the voice skills work very well, with the addition of lots of badly paid Amazon workers correcting the machines when they didn't understand you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I think your first sentence doesn't go very well with second one. But I think I get what you wanted to say...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

You can try out things without owning them. You can also buy electronics and stop using them. I have an Alexa speaker because I wanted to see how it worked, I wanted to take it apart and look at the near field/far field microphones and I wanted to analyse network traffic while idling, while muted and in standby with Wireshark. You can't do that without having the hardware. I don't use Alexa to control my appliances and I created a separate VLAN for that bug.

If I just wanted to try it, I could ask a person I know with an Alexa if I could. Or I could order it and send it back. Or I could get one at work and use it there.

Edited my initial comment ITT to reflect that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Oh, well, yes I agree. I was thinking about more typical usage, like just connecting Alexa device to a wall, wifi and daily using it (for some time).

Edit: on second thought: it is still an quite hostile device under your roof in which you live (talk, etc).