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Yeah I've had an Amazon echo for years and it's been pretty nice (definitely use it for a kitchen timer a lot) but it's been getting shittier and shittier. I swear that it used to work on my network to control things like my thermostat just fine without an internet connection, but then last night there was an outage here an I suddenly couldn't turn off my lights or anything. I had to PHYSICALLY go over to my light, somehow find the socket it's plugged into, and BEND OVER and click the button on the outlet plug. I had to WALK to my thermostat and turn it down. loving insanity. Seriously though it was annoying.
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Taeke posted:Why aren't you using the app? It works great The Awful App hasn't changed a bit.
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Woolie Wool posted:Who would win: I spilled some hydrofluoric acid on my workbench a few years ago and didn’t clean it up properly let’s just say that many of my stainless tools did indeed stain. And by that I mean literally rotted away within a few weeks
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ph scale except for wokeness
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thathonkey posted:ph scale except for wokeness based
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How low can you go?
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Car Hater posted:Google assistant on Android no longer lets me use the assistant button to do voice commands without going "Hey Google" It usually googles "hey Google" when I try this now
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The car handsfree assistant will also no longer function if you disabled the phone "hey Google" AI garbage. They gone and killed android auto, I'm better off using the builtin for the car.
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It's me, the person who can't stand things like the Amazon Echo bc the thought of an always listening device hearing me have sex and the other various intimate life moments upsets me. And they absolutely do hear it, they need to sort all the noises Alexa hears so they can control how it responds and they do that by keeping watch of what Alexa hears vs what it responds to. No, there isn't some guy on the other end listening to every single one of our sex noises, it's a lot of bots hearing it and sorting it, but they still store these sounds in a database and yes real humans do need to audit it and listen to the sounds to judge if the bot is catching them right. There's a department at Amazon that does this. So Amazon just has a sound library of their customers various bodily noises they used to train their AI  that's some weird corpo horror poo poo to meI can't decide if I'm the fool bc really, who actually cares about that in 2024 when we're trading on our privacy for access to things every day, or if everyone else is the fool for making that trade so they don't have to get up to turn out their lights. I think it's both. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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Just lol if you don't think there's a guy at Amazon furiously jerking off to alexa recordings.
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Biplane posted:Just lol if you don't think there's a guy at Amazon furiously jerking off to alexa recordings. it's bezos
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I had a couple of Echo dots for my mum, for when she was going blind and her tremor wouldn't let her type easily. They were great. She could just shout at them and they'd play music or whatever, or if she wanted to google a fact, there it was. I unpluged them the moment she died and wouldn't have another in the house. It's not just you. Nettle Soup fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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StrangersInTheNight posted:It's me, the person who can't stand things like the Amazon Echo bc the thought of an always listening device hearing me... I also don't have anything like that in my house, and generally have zero 'smart' devices. Part of it is definitely privacy, but the bigger question for these devices is this: "What do you actually do here?" I have never in my life seen anyone ever use a Smart Home Assistant for anything other then a party trick. The most (and only) useful function I've ever seen performed by these things is to set a kitchen timer and I have that on my phone in spades, and a wind-up kitchen device is just better. These things aren't useful unless your ability to use a computer is approaching zero.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:I also don't have anything like that in my house, and generally have zero 'smart' devices. Part of it is definitely privacy, but the bigger question for these devices is this: "What do you actually do here?" It must suck being unable to turn on the lights. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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Duck and Cover posted:It must suuck being unable to turn on the lights. We do have hue bulbs everywhere, and when I want Hue-like control over them, I wrote my own app to do this, this is largely just to control stuff when I'm sitting at my computer. The resolution of control on a smart assistant *sucks*. If I don't want to specify exact color temperature or brightness, I have this newfangled technology called 'Light Switch'. I kinda owns. It doesn't listen to me talking, it works 100% of the time without question, and it doesn't try to sell me bullshit.
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You want homeassistant. Lets you have exactly the desired amount of control.
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I recently tried to read an article on the Daily Beast website on a laptop in Chrome with no adblockers, and when I scrolled down the page using the arrow key a big video widow opened up and autoplayed an ad, no skip, no nothing. When it stopped, there was no way to close the window and go back to the article. I just had to close the whole thing and say welp, I guess I'm not reading that article. What the gently caress is wrong with these sites?
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I hate when sites have a static menu bar that literally takes up 1/3th of my screen. I have no idea who the gently caress started doing that but jesus christ I can't do it.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I hate when sites have a static menu bar that literally takes up 1/3th of my screen. I have no idea who the gently caress started doing that but jesus christ I can't do it. Ublock origin makes short work of those with the element picker tool.
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rafikki posted:Ublock origin makes short work of those with the element picker tool.  I gotta try that.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I hate when sites have a static menu bar that literally takes up 1/3th of my screen. I have no idea who the gently caress started doing that but jesus christ I can't do it. Lots of sites have gotten lovely if you have things too narrow because 98.4% of people just browse poo poo on phones an ipads and that's the responsive mobile design.
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DemihumanResources posted:Lots of sites have gotten lovely if you have things too narrow because 98.4% of people just browse poo poo on phones an ipads and that's the responsive mobile design. Yeah, I hate browsing on my phone. I'm glad they're making sites harder to view on a PC. 
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rafikki posted:Ublock origin makes short work of those with the element picker tool. This bookmarklet will also do it when you click it: code:
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AI has now ruined my marriage. My wife has apparently developed a chatbot that responds as a cat would and is now communicating what the cats are thinking to me via this model.
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DemihumanResources posted:AI has now ruined my marriage. My wife has apparently developed a chatbot that responds as a cat would and is now communicating what the cats are thinking to me via this model. That sounds pretty awesome, not gonna lie
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Meeeeeooowww
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DemihumanResources posted:AI has now ruined my marriage. My wife has apparently developed a chatbot that responds as a cat would and is now communicating what the cats are thinking to me via this model. What are you going to do meow?
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The only proper way to respond in kind is to show her your butthole.
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I think it’s hosed up anyone would be subjected to my sex noises but if they are earning a living then god bless em.
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Woolie Wool posted:It's the websites themselves more than the browser, nobody writes HTML anymore, they just deploy huge stacks of middleware and that's even before the ads And there's a reason for that. 
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I still am not sure what a "YouTube Short" is, except that it's the same thing as a YouTube video except in mandatory awful aspect-ratio, the scrub bar taken away, and no volume control. Anyway, it seems like there has been an improvement to this -- the scrub bar is back! But they still don't let you control the fuckin volume. You can either mute it or it's full blast. This is probably a small annoyance to most people, but... why the gently caress do they take things away?!! Why implement half the feature??!
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credburn posted:I still am not sure what a "YouTube Short" is, except that it's the same thing as a YouTube video except in mandatory awful aspect-ratio, the scrub bar taken away, and no volume control. They're trying to copy TikTok but they are doing a bad job. TikTok is fast and it has interesting content. Shorts is slow and glitchy and there's nothing.
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credburn posted:I still am not sure what a "YouTube Short" is, except that it's the same thing as a YouTube video except in mandatory awful aspect-ratio, the scrub bar taken away, and no volume control. The scrub bar goes away and comes back all the time. No idea what drives it. One day it'll be there, the next gone.
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Even if it had all of the features, it's pointless at best because it's not doing anything regular YouTube doesn't already do and it adds a fourth place I have to check channels for new content. I'm surprised they haven't gotten rid of subscriptions and channels completely to force us to engage with the algorithm more.
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You can at least replace "shorts" in the url with "watch?v=", but yeah knock it off youtube.
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credburn posted:I still am not sure what a "YouTube Short" is, except that it's the same thing as a YouTube video except in mandatory awful aspect-ratio, the scrub bar taken away, and no volume control. If they let you control the volume then how would the rest of the subway car enjoy your video with you?
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Internet Old One posted:If they let you control the volume then how would the rest of the subway car enjoy your video with you? I don't want to sound like too much of an old fogey, but I don't use TikTok and one of the reasons is listening to my coworkers watching stuff on it. It's always horrible loud jangling something that abruptly cuts off to another horribly loud jangling something and on and on
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