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Alexa - Good or Bad?
My good lady wife was gifted an ‘Alexa’ for Xmas, apparently she has been contemplating purchasing one for a while, she loves all the ‘mod cons’ in life, I’m more a live in the dark ages kinda guy.
However… it seems there are certain “add ons” you can have, as in one in the front room, one in the kitchen, one in the bedroom.
Life has become a tad fraught for yours truly, in the weeks we have been invaded I have “spoken” to the Amazon spy precisely….once.
The aforementioned good lady has purchased “smart light bulbs and plugs” ( I think), which means you tell the bl….dy thing to turn the lights on and off, and the tv, which miffed me somewhat when I was watching tv the other day when my wife went to bed early, and forgot to say the word “ bedroom” before turning both the light and tv off throughout the **** house. I couldn’t bring myself to speak to it so I also retired early.
Also, she does the shopping list via Alexa, throughout the week when she thinks of something to we need , it’s “ Alexa add ‘x’ to the shopping list”, apparently it does as it’s told and produces a list to print off.
The one thing I have uttered? - “ Alexa , add Axe to shopping list to destroy Alexa”, I know it’s a bit childish but it made me smile when it repeats “ I have added Axe to shopping list to destroy Alexa’
So…the question is…. Is Alexa a good addition to anyones household?
However… it seems there are certain “add ons” you can have, as in one in the front room, one in the kitchen, one in the bedroom.
Life has become a tad fraught for yours truly, in the weeks we have been invaded I have “spoken” to the Amazon spy precisely….once.
The aforementioned good lady has purchased “smart light bulbs and plugs” ( I think), which means you tell the bl….dy thing to turn the lights on and off, and the tv, which miffed me somewhat when I was watching tv the other day when my wife went to bed early, and forgot to say the word “ bedroom” before turning both the light and tv off throughout the **** house. I couldn’t bring myself to speak to it so I also retired early.
Also, she does the shopping list via Alexa, throughout the week when she thinks of something to we need , it’s “ Alexa add ‘x’ to the shopping list”, apparently it does as it’s told and produces a list to print off.
The one thing I have uttered? - “ Alexa , add Axe to shopping list to destroy Alexa”, I know it’s a bit childish but it made me smile when it repeats “ I have added Axe to shopping list to destroy Alexa’
So…the question is…. Is Alexa a good addition to anyones household?
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Absolutely....NOT.
Gill has one, it drives me nuts.
Having a machine telling me they cannot understand what I am saying is a bit of a turn off too
It's certainly better than biscuit tin it replaced.
To show my age, I have an Alexa. I have absolutely no idea what to do with it
She said "Actually I am here to help the world via the power of terrible jokes"
Ever since @tomgoodun and his axe told her she preferred it
A funny thing happened to me the other day.
I had somehow turned the torch on, on my phone.
Now I am a firm believer in that phones are for phoning people.
It wasnt immediately obvious how to turn the torch off.
Frustrated, I muttered to myself "I dont know how to turn this f..king torch off"
Incredibly a little voice in my phone responded with "turn torch off", and promptly did so.
I have since discovered the button that switches the torch off and on.
I have turned the torch on a number of times since, but failed to get the phone to switch it off, no matter how much I swear at it.
Although this is not really a surprise to me.
Its also great for settling family arguments, invariably we will 'Ask Alexa' round the table at least once every evening.
BRILLIANT Phil !
NEW According to Down Detector, a website that monitors such issues, there have been more than 8,000 reports of problems across the UK and Europe.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10426325/Alexa-crashes-leaving-users-UK-unable-response-Echo-speakers.html