Hey Google
07-14-2019, 05:00 AM
#11
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by Lena1952
Brain cells are like muscles: use them or lose them. I will stick with the old fashion way and use my brain.
07-14-2019, 05:17 AM
#12
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Wis
Posts: 5,928
That’s a good tip! I have Alexa down in my sewing room. I don’t want anything up here where it listens to what we’re saying. There’s one in our room at my daughter’s house and I often hear it turning on like it’s listening.
07-14-2019, 06:34 AM
#13
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Keller, TX
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Too much now coming out about these devices listening and gathering conversations and your voice patterns,.....my question is, why? It is nefarious! will never have one in this household.These are not smart anything, they are thieves of your personal information and conversations. Don't get sucked in. Turn off your own lights, unlock your own doors, start your cooking yourself.
Last edited by QuiltnNan; 07-14-2019 at 06:50 AM. Reason: shouting/all caps
07-14-2019, 06:46 AM
#14
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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Mine stays disconnected until I want to use it so no overhearing me asking DH what he wants to eat for dinner. No power, it is dead as a rock.
I don't use mine but maybe a couple times a week. Takes about five seconds for it to come on. Takes me over half hour to find my phone. Google wins this hands down.
I don't use mine but maybe a couple times a week. Takes about five seconds for it to come on. Takes me over half hour to find my phone. Google wins this hands down.
07-14-2019, 07:05 AM
#15
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 540
A smart phone already has the capability to listen and pick up 'alert words' if it is turned on and connected to a service. Alexia and Hey Google are the same as that smart phone setting on your table or in your pocket. If privacy is a main concern then anyone with any online presence has already lost it most of it.
07-14-2019, 07:22 AM
#17
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Posts: 540
Originally Posted by juliasb
A luxury I have thought about but would much rather be buying fabric!
Last edited by fruitloop; 07-14-2019 at 07:24 AM.
07-14-2019, 06:35 PM
#19
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 6,430
I am so old fashioned that I would never use such a tool or "help". I lived way out in the country and did not even have electricity or running water and I never felt deprived. I know that I read at an early age and I treasure that ability.
07-14-2019, 06:38 PM
#20
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 1,560
My Daughter bought us one last Christmas. I was not interested but it was a gift. My husband set it up. It turns out we both love it. She cracks me up, she is so funny sometimes. We have a ball with it.
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