I use the phone-app at work to have Alexa randomly start playing

Jun 7, 2017
6:54:05am

Bert609 All-American

Bad Company throughout the day. .

The ensuing hangout chats with my HCBW were priceless....

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Bert609

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I'm worried that Alexa is jealous of my wife. Last night, just as we were about

Ty10s_WinGames

6/7/17 5:58am

So your regular alarm doesn't wake up your wife, but the Alexa alarm does?

Fdnman

6/7/17 6:00am

yup...for some reason she's immune to the phone alarm, but phone was downstairs

Ty10s_WinGames

6/7/17 6:05am

I will never get one of those things.

mobomanjoe

6/7/17 6:08am

Never say never. We use ours as a whole-house intercom system and it's great.

Ty10s_WinGames

6/7/17 6:14am

It's just creepy that it listens to every conversation.

mobomanjoe

6/7/17 6:19am

It can ignore you sometimes too, so there is that.

Bert609

6/7/17 6:55am

Like the telescreens in 1984. I love big brother

GeauxCougs

6/7/17 6:58am

Your phone already does that if you have a voice assistant on

CSoul

6/7/17 7:28am

I use the phone-app at work to have Alexa randomly start playing

Bert609

6/7/17 6:54am

How does it work as an intercom system? We have one in our room and one in the

Fdnman

6/7/17 12:58pm

Right now it's a little tricky...you have to register each to different people

Ty10s_WinGames

6/7/17 5:10pm

What about one of these?

IndependentGeorge

6/7/17 7:24am

As a child of aging parents, I would buy one of these for them. My mom wore a

Ty10s_WinGames

6/7/17 7:35am

I hate talking to machines

curmudgeon

6/7/17 7:43am

Me too

Pretorian

6/7/17 7:50am

One day machines will take over... I just hope Jon Conner will be around then

Pretorian

6/7/17 7:48am

He can show up anytime he wants; naked in a lightning bubble.

Twin Roots

6/7/17 9:53am

Wshew... good point

Pretorian

6/7/17 10:33am

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