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Who has Alexa?
Pros? Cons?
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Went to a friends last week that has it. It was pretty cool but I'm sure she was listening to us.
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Kids like it... Great for playing some music, getting news, weather, traffic.... Fun for the kids to ask questions to... She's not as clever as Siri... Paired with some smart devices she can also turn on my lights around the house, some electronic devices... It's not expensive, so worth a try unless you talk about state secrets at home ;-)
My youngest loves telling Alexa to turn on the downstairs lights so he does not have to be in the dark on his way down ! |
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Picked one up a couple of months ago.
The short stack has an anemic speaker but you can pair it with larger ones. The taller, more expensive one sounds pretty good on it's own. She's convenient, especially in the kitchen while cooking. You can set multiple timers. She is listening all the time but only for her trigger word. Sometimes she will trigger on Alexa TV commercials which is kind of funny. Have not had her mistakenly order anything yet.
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Exactly! Alexa is just another product developed to passively capture your personal data and interests so they can bombard you with more specific targeted advertising. Get it and ask "Google Champion Radiators". Ten minutes later you will see a plethora of ads for different radiator deals on Amazon. e.g. Google and Facebook.
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If you are into high quality sound system (which I am), Alexa is not gonna work. My friend lives in an apartment and this works well for him and his girlfriend but wouldn't cut it if you needed this music for a party.
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Here is what I do during the day/week a lot
set reminders, a lot of them take down notes on various projects I'm doing (biggest time suck running to computer to enter new info/thoughts/idea into spreadsheets/Word docs check financial stuff weather Notes on customer jobs: "spent 1 hour drilling out and retapping bolts, add to invoice" recipes send a text to friend asking about... Does it do all of that? What doesn't it do? I don't care if it listens in. I have a nice stereo for music, it's pretty old but I think the Rotel pre-amp might be able to connect if I wanted it to.
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I have 3 of them in the house. I have one in my shop-garage, plugged into a Bose speaker. I love being able to change the song while I am on my back under the car covered in grease/oil. It also does conversions for me in the garage...."Alexa convert 80 inch pounds to foot pounds".
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1) change the key phrase away from Alexa, to prevent tv/radio from accidentally activating her 2). Now the fun part. Frequently, when you are not going to be near/using the device, leave a radio on, so she can hear it, tuned to the Spanish radio station or to Rush Limbaugh, or the farm report. Give her plenty of "white noise" data to parse through. If she is near you computer speakers, a nice audio book is just the ticket. You know, the good subjects like economics 101 or learn to speak Portuguese. spectroscopy Is a fun subject, maybe Alexa is into stars and what they are made of.
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I got a dot last year & unplugged it because it was pretty worthless compared to Google assistant. I recently plugged it back in downstairs to use as an intercom with the new Fire tab I bought. I haven't gotten around to setting it up yet. I need to buy a Wink hub to tie everything together.
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I have one. It's more of a novelty to control things with voice commands. I have a bunch of lights set up and Alexa links up with my home stereo via bluetooth. I use those two functions and the weather the most.
My 4 year old daughter loves it. She has access to any music she wants with a simple request.
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sure i have one right next to all my indoor wifi cameras. for security
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Ask Alexa to tell you a Chuck Norris joke. She has several. Hilarious..
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I don't get it. Maybe I'm just old.
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