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by oblio 376 days ago
All voice assistants, at least the original iterations, are only good for 3-4 trivial things people actually want. And they've been around for a decade at this point.
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It’s a kitchen timer, music player, and weather sayer.

That’s surely worth the $30 I paid.

I had to laugh, these are literally the only three things my wife and I use ours for. At a stretch, I'll count the multi-room speaker sync as a great value add to the OOTB audio playback. Anything else, forget it.
Don’t forget grocery list add-er!
I will never talk to a computer until they are sentient.