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> I'm surprised at how dependent I'm becoming on Alexa for otherwise mundane stuff.

It's interesting that I had a similar experience with the AirPods I got as a gift. I would never have bought them myself, but now that I have them I keep discovering ways in which they solve a 'problem', however trivial, that I had in the past with wired earbuds/headphones, or offer a new use-case. I often find myself having one of the earbuds in throughout the day, and I wasn't too much of a headphone-user to begin with.

If they'd break, I'd probably buy new ones immediately, despite the price.

(Well, I'd research the possibility of cheaper bluetooth earbuds first)