Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according to LinkedIn posts

Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by criddell on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:38PM (#33629306)

I have an Echo and a Homepod and I rarely use the Echo anymore because of their "by the way, did you know..." responses. They know there are a lot of users who want to disable that but unfortunately their goals aren't aligned with their users' goals.

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by cableshaft on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:11PM (#33630670)

Everything I use Alexa for:

"Alexa, set a timer for x mins / wake me up at x time."

"Alexa, what's the weather today?"

"Alexa, can dogs eat <type of food>?"

"Alexa, play <the song I just referenced so my wife knows the reference even though she doesn't care>"

Mostly just the first two. I don't care about anything else they try to push on me.

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by odysseus on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:25PM (#33630882)

I got rid of my Echo mostly because of those types of responses. And also for how easy they make it for you to buy something accidentally off Amazon, or accidentally upgrade to Music Unlimited.

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by nickm12 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:16AM (#33641057)

You can say "Alexa, stop by the way" and it will disable it for a time, but it will come back. If you really want to disable it for good, you can set up a routine to effectively issue this "snooze" on by the way at some interval.

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