Or - don’t buy one in the first place. You’re saving yourself, what, a few minutes a month? The risk vs. reward ratio is way off.
I bought an Amazon Fire 7” tablet a few years ago because I knew the build quality would be good. There are instructions on the Internet on how to add the Google Play Store, which makes it even better. It didn’t originally come with Alexa, but it’s there now. I have it turned off, but that doesn’t mean a thing. I am thinking of ditching it or replacing the operating system with a generic ROM.
“Alexa, what personal conversations have you recorded in this house?”
“Oh, none? Great. Um. I can trust you completely, right Alexa? Good. Thanks.”
Anyone remember the book, “Future Shock” years ago?
That book talked in part, of how technology keeps changing and advancing and overwhelms some people.
I feel overwhelmed a bit, with this talk of “Alexa” and talking to a device. I don’t understand what these devices are, or why it makes your life better to have one.
Anyway, so many things have changed in recent decades, that it becomes a task in itself to keep up.
should you get an “I Phone” or a “Droid”, for example? What are the relative merits of each? It takes some work to delve into the different features of each, whereas years ago, you just had a phone, and that was it.
It just seems to me, that not only has technology advanced, but it has gotten more complex.
Same reason I won't buy a dash cam that records speed and GPS data.
I don’t search on Google, I don’t own an android phone, I don’t have Gmail, and I darn sure don’t have Alexa in my home.
If you believe you can delete a conversation recorded by Google, you might be a moron. (hat tip Jeff Foxworthy)
Another reason not to get google voice/home or alexa and other voice activated stuff like that.
The bleeding age of technology is very sharp.
Why so many words?
The succinct advice: NEVER BUY ONE!
Technological ignoramuses are the prey of criminals.
My biggest laugh of last week. I got a phone call...
Message : The IRS has issued a warrant for your arrest!
I felt ignored and unimportant for such along time.
*SNIFF*
Is it snapchat, or instagram, one of them is supposed to delete the message automatically?? Or so I’ve heard.
I have a feeling that anything involving transmissions online, are there forever. Or can be recovered by people who know how to retrive allegedly disposed of transmissions.
Once you click delete, the query is gone forever with no ability to undo. If you’re nervous about what Google Home has recorded, it’s worth noting that the data never leaves Google’s servers or reaches third parties.
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I still have millions of "energy credits" available for sale... Guaranteed by Al Gore.
Why would people invite the NSA,CIA, FBI,... in to their home in the first place??
Simpler to just not buy one.
hard to believe that people have devolved so much from their fear of Big Brother in the 60’s aned 70’s that they actually PAY extra to have Big Brother installed!
If you suspect a divorce, child custody case in the near future, then next time you attend your spouse’s home,
say the following.
“Hey Alexa! Download some child porn.”
The next day make a phone call to CPS Child Protection Services.
You now have sole custody rights.
I guess I am not the tech nerd I thought I was. I’ve never felt comfortable speaking commands. I can type fast enough. And, I am not so lonely that I want to talk to a microprocessor.