That's why we love the egg man. He'll start on a tangent about made up units of measurement, and by the time you realize it's been going on for a while, it's been 6 days and you're dying of dehydration. Then he coincidentally starts on another tangent about water.
like the features, setup was difficult for some of my devices (August Door lock, ru-vid.comUgkxhB5YOMNj04GuoAosExygP4cH-dKeb4aB Bose speaker)... but all switches and outlets (5), thermostat, tankless water heater. Unfortunately all I can do is turn on/off Bose. It doesn't support volume or changing channels, but I believe that is due to the particular speaker I have.... Worth getting if you already have other devices to use it with... I don't sit around and ask Alexa questions much so that doesn't really matter to me....
from what I understand, it's got a separate circuit board that's always on just for listening to "alexa" and when it hears "alexa" it boots up the whole thing to get what you're saying. Because some people will talk fast, the first 3 seconds after "alexa" is said is recorded on the separate circuit board, then fed into the rest of the device after booting is complete
That's honestly pretty clever. It's also pretty trivial to watch what packets come out of the device and see if it's recording every word you say and sending it back to Amazon. Spoilers, it's not. The software to perform this experiment is actually free, too.
Oh my lord, this is hilarious. I'm so happy you made this. I can't believe you found so many relevant lines. I lost it at "I've got no idea, I'm NorthernLion". So good.
the best part of this is the fact that Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" is on anyone's "Dance" or "Romance" playlist when sung by Enelle, I can understand the latter... ;)
Imagine walking past your Echo, asking it a question about limes and getting the response: "LIMES??! What kinda fuckin' fruit meta are you runnin' over there?!"
