fuck this shit
― brimstead, Monday, 29 January 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
i have now plugged it into the stereo
to think you used to be against the very phenomenon of recorded music!
― j., Monday, 29 January 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
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― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Monday, 29 January 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
lol j that was when i was more limber, and had more disposable income now i need electric ariels to fetch sounds into my home
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 January 2018 08:44 (six years ago) link
unfortunately i find myself curious about the apple homepod
― 龜, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
t/s: being surveilled by tim cook vs being surveilled by jeff bezos
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
I want one. Not in the budget right now tho.
― Jeff, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
is it imac-sized but with a giant clickwheel???
― j., Monday, 29 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
£320 for a bluetooth speaker which doesn't understand my accent when i yell at it seems... ambitious
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
Bears repeating...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU
― MaresNest, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
precisely
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
whenever i see one of these i have a momentary impulse to destroy it
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
How is this real https://t.co/zsBWetcQ3m— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) March 7, 2018
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
referring to this:
Amazon confirms some Alexa devices are randomly laughing and says it's working on a fix, after multiple users posted about it on social media (@shannon_liao / The Verge)https://t.co/ZZCzsdJblBhttps://t.co/su8obK4hWt— Techmeme (@Techmeme) March 7, 2018
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
I got a HomePod. I enjoy it, but I do use it almost exclusively for listening to music. Just having easy, voice controlled access to my iTunes library and playlists that I’ve carefully curated over the past 15+ years is worth the price for me. Also works really well being controlled by the phone as well. You can easily switch to whatever the HomePod is playing, change the queue, add something to up next, etc. And it sounds better than what I was using previously (Amazon Music through the echo).I’d struggle to recommend it to anyone not using Apple Music though. It’s not a great smart speaker, I still use my Alexa’s for all my smart home devices and automations since they are not HomeKit compatible.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
less a ringing endorsement than a... maybe a clanking endorsement?
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
Wasn’t meant to be! Just thoughts, man.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
have now plugged it into the stereo and can invoke any song from the entire history of recorded music by just asking for it.you can't though
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
pretty freakin close!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
anything spotify doesn't have i just bluetooth from my phone/computer
or play on the record player lol
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/amazon-alexa-recorded-conversation
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 25 May 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
Siri on my phone turns on at odd times when I’m speaking French (I have Siri set to English), and does weird things since it’s interpreting French as English. Bilingual life may be pretty rare for people with the lifestyles to buy one of these but I don’t see how they screen for accent differences etc.
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 25 May 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
it connects to my computer's Bluetooth around midnight pretty regularly with absolutely no intervention from me, no noises at all in the house
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 May 2018 09:46 (six years ago) link
throw that shit in the garbage, my g
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Friday, 25 May 2018 10:51 (six years ago) link
Siri on my phone turns on at odd times when I’m speaking French (I have Siri set to English), and does weird things since it’s interpreting French as English.
seems to work the other way too. when i say the incredibly common english word 'theatre', it thinks i'm saying 'théâtre' with all the accents i didn't insert into my speech and then says "sorry, i didn't find a device named 'tay-AHH-tra'". alexa is a fucking idiot.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 11 October 2018 10:40 (five years ago) link
i mean... alexa, not siri
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 11 October 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
now that i'm here:
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 11 October 2018 11:16 (five years ago) link
having gone all-out with google home i'm now able to drift through the flat with one (1) music/podcast playing everywhere. a damned decent and relatively affordable way of doing things, especially since i'm trying to do less with headphones (due to fear of further hearing damage), and especially since there have been a pile of good specials recently (i straight-up can't justify the cost of a full sonos kit-out).
on the whole, it works. if you want music played on a speaker group, it plays on that speaker group and stays nicely synced across speakers. chromecast is better for this because asking the homes to play something is a lucky dip. the sound quality (a mix of homes & minis) isn't excellent but it's absolutely fine, and i love having it follow me around without needing to crank it.
i've gone a bit nuts with home automation too, where it's convenient. so:
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 November 2018 07:11 (five years ago) link
luck·y dip/ˌləkē ˈdip/nounBritish term for grab bag.
― Je55e, Sunday, 25 November 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KDzehG%2BZL._AC_SY400_.jpg
― conrad, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
Siri just plain doesn't understand the things I say and doesn't seem to be getting any better so I've stopped using it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 25 November 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
siri is outright broken on watches, doesn't fire at all most of the time
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
"electric blankets"
i'm astonished these still exist. do they or are you kidding?
i need to make the first elective duvet.
my commercial song is gonna be a repurposed "electric guitar" if i can clear it somehow
― legit lib llc (check our patreon!) (Hunt3r), Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
elective, electric, whatever lol
― legit lib llc (check our patreon!) (Hunt3r), Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
― Jeff, Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
About 9,720 results for "electric duvet"
― Bing The Mighty Seat (sic), Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
i'm astonished these still exist. do they or are you kidding?as long as there are cold blankets there will be a device to warm them
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
It’s working again on my series 4. I had given up on my previous series 2.it was absolutely fine on my series 3 until watchos 5
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
google assistant is now available as a siri shortcut, so you can yell e.g. “hey google, i parked my car here” into your watch and google maps will remember where you parked it
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 November 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
Serious question: why are you guys all not bothered by having every sound you make in your homes spied on?
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
because1. network activity monitoring has shown iirc that they (at least google’s iirc) only scan locally for the wake word and don’t send any voice data to the mothership unless they’re invoked2. i honestly can’t think of a trade-off that matters, given i have what 40 years left to live and will just waste it anyway3. phones everywhere are doing exactly the same thing all of the time
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 07:19 (five years ago) link
that said i would never buy one for anyone as a gift, that would be a really shitty thing to do
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 07:22 (five years ago) link
Sounds as though google is a bit better than alexa, then. Cheers.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 08:27 (five years ago) link
yeah alexa got sprung recently for over-listening (can’t find the link i saw recently, but here’s another one from may)
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 08:38 (five years ago) link
i have what 40 years left to live and will just waste it anyway
my man
― sign up for my waterless urinals webinar (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link
lol wait for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVhFxxyXd0o
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 08:58 (four years ago) link
I got an Echo as a "welcome to the new office" gift 2.5 years ago (to cushion the blow of being relocated from Soho to a Z4 industrial estate, as far as I could tell). My gf also worked at the same place then, and now we live together, so we have two of these bastards. They continually fall off the wifi, and have to be powered off/on, which entirely defeats their only use, which is playing music while you're cooking/doing dishes/otherwise unable to fiddle with a touch-screen. The novelty of Alexa singing songs or telling lame jokes or ghost stories wore off for the kids after about six months.
Still, Amazon have a nice little archive of me saying "go fuck yourself" and "why is everything so shit" or "where are my fucking keys, eh? Tell me that" after the wake-word which I'm sure can be weaponised at some point.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
gotta wifi those keys bruh
― maffew12, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
Surprised the Echo didn't just drop £500 of home-security facial-recog tech into my Amazon basket so I never have to fumble for physical keys again. "I'll let you back in when you stop swearing at me".
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
all I do with these things now (alexa and google) is control lights, add stuff to shopping lists and play music (which on google is a major clusterfuck at least half the time). worth having around but I wouldn’t update unless these ones die.
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
u people are mad letting these things in your homes
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
we have a five month old called hazel in the house, and sonos speakers with google voice support. saying 'goo goo goo' often sets them off - more worryingly, so does 'hey hazel', though it makes a slightly different beep and doesn't actually respond to any commands afterwards.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 5 December 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
I feel confident that Alexa won't send a random email out, it's not linked to my email account (other than through my amazon account). I'm pretty sure it doesn't have the function to just look up my contacts in google mail and send out an email.
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Thursday, 5 December 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
No one will ever want to come to my house again once I get this new little robot.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
Five and two year old at the table, two year old asks "hey google how does a sponge work"
"According to the website mayoclinic.org the contraceptive sponge is a type of birth control (contraceptive) that prevents sperm from entering the uterus. It is soft and disk-shaped and made of polyurethane foam. The contraceptive sponge contains spermicide, which kills sperm. Before having sex, you insert the sponge deep inside the vagina so that it covers the cervix. Your vaginal muscles hold it in place. The contraceptive sponge has a strap on one side for easier removal. The sponge can prevent pregnancy but doesn't protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs)."
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Friday, 10 December 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
lmao amazing
― rob, Friday, 10 December 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
haha!
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 10 December 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
hey google what is an upper decker
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 December 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/29/amazons-alexa-child-penny-live-plug
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Thursday, 30 December 2021 08:35 (two years ago) link
Also belongs in a Darwin awards thread:The challenge began circulating on TikTok around a year ago and often results in the person getting electrocuted
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Thursday, 30 December 2021 08:36 (two years ago) link