Fucking Alexa

[Smitff]

Just want to smash her face in.

It's the reasonable and pleasant tone of voice. Makes me sounds like even more of a haranguing nag than I already am.

DH is making this a Big Deal.

I'm considering giving him an ultimatum. Alexa or me.

Fucking twatting gadgets. Sick of them all.

I want one!! Will be better when it's linked up with IFTTT. The US one works but not the UK for some reason.

Check again, SweetPeaPods IFTTT says it now works with the UK ones.

ifttt.com/amazon_alexa

What does it do though?

Ask Alexa how long is a piece of string.

She also has some pretty good jokes. If you like Christmas cracker ones like I do.

Mind you, talking about what she does, we took to calling her Voldemort (as in she who cannot be named) so as not to wake her up at the same time

The shopping list thing - if I say add eggs or whatever to my list - where is the list? How do I get access to it?

@missanneshirley the shopping list is in the app under the Shopping Lists/To Do tab. You can ask Alexa what's on your shopping list as well and she'll give the last 5 items.

I used to like asking Siri how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. does Alexa know the answer?

Can you change Alexa to a man? I hate the advert where the man is asking her to do stuff because I can't help but see it in terms of gender politics!

I agree, it's very irritating that all these personal assistants are female😤

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Ahh brilliant thanks gardening

We have a severely visually impaired 5 year old daughter, the prospect of her being able to control things with just her voice is very exciting for us, giving her the opportunity to be more independent in life. They're not just gimmicky adult toys, they are the future of accessibility for disabled people! Think of it that way

We have 2 of these, I don't use them as she never bloody listens to me me, DH talks to her in a very strict voice which seems to work.

The only time she has worked for me is when I was having a really serious conversation with my mum about a family members illness and the bloody thing started randomly playing hotel California.

flynn that's a very good point and admittedly not something that I'd thought of. I am warming to her now

Just wait until she refuses to open the pod bay doors...

Does she sing 'Daisy daisy' when she is being shut down?

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How much wood can a woodchuck chuck....?
"about 700lbs on a good day with the wind on his back"

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I'm sorry, Dave.....I'm not Hal and we aren't in space

Re shopping list etc, if you go to your app you can find out what you have asked, find what music she has played, find your shopping lists etc.

Re the (much) earlier complaints about suggesting music purchases, I've always kept my music requests generic "play me mozart/Christmas carols" etc rather than specific albums so I suppose that is why I have not bee prompted to buy.

Happy days :)

Siri sometimes replies a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

A woodchuck would chuck all the wood a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

She also knows how to find out how many roads a man must walk down, and the answer to life the universe and everything.

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She already won't open the pod bay doors. Apparently she's not Hal and we're not in space.

Thank you uylesses!

My in laws are all bloody obsessed with their Alexas. Spent the whole of Christmas discussing her various virtues whilst DH and I looked incredulously at them all.

I'm kind of railing against technology at the moment. I am sick of the internet, of my smart phone, of anything I want on TV or any song I want immediately. I hanker after simpler times (the 90's) when we used to play games and do jigsaws and get bored. And yes I'm posting this from a smartphone. But still. It's positively prehistoric in comparison to Alexa.

Fun fact: Alexa's voice-command purchasing is enabled by default.

So if your 6-yr-old says, "Alexa, get me a dollhouse," an expensive dollhouse will arrive at your doorstep a few days later.

It gets better.

If a TV station runs a story on your DD's $160 dollhouse purchase, and the presenter says something like, ""I love the little girl, saying 'Alexa ordered me a dollhouse'," guess what happens next?

Yep. All those eager little Alexas in viewers' houses, rushing to do the bidding of, well, anyone they hear...

Oh FFS.

Thanks for that link Pausing. Just sent that to DH.

He will know I'm going to go ballistic if he doesn't disable that shit.

They're evil, Amazon. Seriously.

When my cousin came over, we were explaining the Alexa to her. DH mentioned that she can do alarms. Cousin went 'so if you just say Alexa, wake me up at 4am, she will?' 4am next morning....