A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon

Re:A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon by _a_a_a_ on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:22PM (#36300432)

> This wasn’t just a simple inconvenience, though. I have a smart home, and my primary means of interfacing with all the devices and automations is through Amazon Echo devices via Alexa. This incident left me with a house full of unresponsive devices

@Author: If I put it to you that you made a bad decision a while back and this is the predictable consequence, what would your response be?

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Re:A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon by hospitalJail on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:42PM (#36300773)

I know code supposedly needs to be maintained... but I have so many FOSS devices around my house that I havent touched in years. (admittedly I do hobbyist embedded, so its not like you can get much of this stuff off the shelf)

Meanwhile my $20 Wyze security camera has gotten worse over the years with all the updates, fees, reduction in features, etc...

On a similar note, it seems my Nest continues to lie about the temperature, seemingly worse than ever.

Its interesting how often buying the mainstream product gets punished, but DIY is robust.

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Re:A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon by plagiarist on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:30PM (#36300570)

Seems to be along the lines of, "I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of the Echo device." I do not get this mindset at all.

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Re:A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon by throwway120385 on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:41PM (#36300755)

I would've ripped it all out after I got that email from the executive.

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