She doesn’t understand and I can’t control lights or anything even through the app
I’m assuming this isn’t just me, but I bet there’s a lot of people who’ve just received one as a present that bow looks faulty
It's to give folks a peaceful Christmas without kids screeching commands across the room at it.
Are you pissed ?
If not, she maybe 🍻🎉🍾
It must be terrible. There's no dignity in putting a CD in the stereo nowadays
Thoughts are with you at this difficult time.
I can’t control lights or anything
have your arms and legs also stopped working?
Mine didn't understand yesterday, had to power cycle the WiFi and all was good.
We have cd backups so not noticed anything today
First World Problems dot com.
I'm sorry, I didn't understand Thirst Word Problems dot com.
It's just listening in and storing things up to use against you.
Sorry to hear about the problems with your wife. Show a bit of consideration. She will be busy looking after your kids, her parents are due any time now, and she has lunch to cook.
Give her a bit of help and change the CD yourself - getting off your fat arse will be good exercise for you.
My wife, Pam, is just as busy as your Alexa but is managing to struggle through. It's a tough time for wives.
Everyone deserves a day off, have a heart mate.
Op. Really!?
Well all the Christmas tree lights etc. are controlled by a smart plug buried behind the tree and presents
Don’t own a CD player, have a cheap Bluetooth speaker somewhere
All timings for cooking (our first time cooking) Christmas dinner, were pre set in the echo (trying to be well prepared and organised)
So is a bit of an inconvenience, but not the end of the world. Was more thinking it was the Alexa server that was down, and all the disappointed people who got one for Xmas
She doesn’t understand and I can’t control lights or anything even through the app
Welcome to the future.
Putin flexing his muscles. Op we won 2 world wars...you got this.. You just have to believe in yourself. You can do it 👊
Ours has gone t!TS up as well. It's currently playing an extended version of Springsteen Xmas song and it won't stop. Bloody awful!
I cannot imagine anything less inconvenient.
All the reasons mentioned above are why I won’t have a bloody Alexa, or other ‘assistant’. Friends have one, and and they keep having to repeat commands, which would drive me nuts.
I ‘might’, given spare cash, have a couple of HomePods, purely to stream music from my Mac.
And that is why you should always have a paper backup.
I hope you can somehow get through this disaster and make something of your Christmas. Lord only knows how you will cope in the face of such adversity.
#thestruggleisreal
Amazon is a shop that dabbles with tech.
Google is a tech company that also sells stuff.
Hence you buy Google Home not the Echo....
All the reasons mentioned above are why I won’t have a bloody Alexa, or other ‘assistant’.
Unless apple make one....
Google home's around everywhere I've been.
It just works 😉
Google is a software company that sells tech.
And that’s the reason I didn’t buy that useful piece of tech.
Google is a data mining company that sells your secrets.
Op we won 2 world wars
There are no winners in any war ever. If all the small people realised this the world would be a better place to live in.
Merry Christmas
T&P's
Hope you struggle through this difficult time.
Thoughts and prayers
I have one of these talking people in my phone. I would ask her if she knows any jokes, or if she thinks my farts smell bad. I would not like to entrust her with operating my house electrics or cooking the Christmas dinner.
I think OP you are paying the price for showing such high levels of trust and placing great degrees of responsibility onto Alexa too early in your relationship.
Google is a data mining company that sells your secrets.
They can have them
Ours did this earlier today, just as I was using it to set multiple timers for Xmas dinner🙀
Fortunately turning it on & off again had her back
And Xmas dinner was done to perfection!
Technology is finally bringing us Star Trek
My daughter got a speaker thing for Christmas which can connect to Alexa via her tablet..
Is it any use to an 8 year old.
So far it's played some Christmas music and told us that she has a female personality. She also knows the time in Wellington NZ.
Does she do any useful stuff that doesn't involve buying smart light bulbs that want access to my phone contacts, photos and whatever other personal data I hand over..
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Google is a data mining company that sells your secrets.
Of course. I would just prefer it to be mined by Google rather than Amazon is all as the tradeoffs I get in return are better from Google then from Amazon.
Ie a better assistant that is genuinely useful on my mobile.
Does she do any useful stuff that doesn’t involve buying smart light bulbs that want access to my phone contacts, photos and whatever other personal data I hand over
You can disable those permission if you granted them. Just let her use it to answer questions and play music
Looks like you weren't the only one who had their Xmas ruined, whilst they sat on their sofa in a warm house with plenty of food and drink with people around them they love.
Has the turkey been cremated because Alexa didn't tell the op to remove it ?
Has the turkey been cremated because Alexa didn’t tell the op to remove it ?
Never went in the oven because Alexa never told OP to do that, and he has no idea how a turkey cooks.