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I agree that a lot of improvements need to be made.

What buggs me is that the playback gain changes from announcement to music and even song to song .... just have to find a median that isn't...

beer ? loved the foreign ones, but 1 is my limit now. diuritics for BP you know. :eek:

(Diuretics, also called water pills, are medications designed to increase the amount of water and salt...

Areas being forested are blocked off, lumberjacks have no business in PDX and our paths would not cross. The alternative lifestyle people seem to use crew cuts and plaid shirts as a uniform of...

only 2 states in US where you cannot pump your own gas, other is New jersey



I've never seen a lumberjack , tho our hipsters like to dress like them .. lots of posers here.
I'm just usually in...

yeah, you pretty much described my life. Tho wrong about snow ... some years we can get up to 3 inches, all in one day .. :eek:

we also brew a lot of beer and drink a lot of coffee and desire our...

yesterday my little ECHO had a green ring slowly pulsing, what :confused:

checked it out ... means a notification is waiting :dont-know:

figured out how to retrieve that ... it said "8gb ddr4...

that's much worse than the grandkids jacking up the volume knob and blowing out the speakers. :eek:

I wonder which has happened more times. :dont-know:



sounds like a deal, converted an...

we get it todd, you don't need one, don't want one, they are too dangerous,,,,bottom line=DON'T get one. hide in the 20th century ... there are hazards everywhere in the 21st. :eek:

mine just plays music and turns on the light.

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Amazon launched Alexa Guard earlier this year. By saying “Alexa I’m leaving” the Echo device will listen for loud noises and glass breaking. If it detects and suspects someone is trying to break...

I got that Creek amp just a bit ago ... went searching for a use for it.
It's narrow enough to use on the headboard as a headphone amp.

It really gives the Senn HD-6XX's some authority.

So...

Almost no one is buying Google smart speakers anymore

https://bgr.com/2019/11/15/amazon-vs-google-smart-speaker-market-share-data-third-quarter/

Amazon has now opened up their music streaming services to
users other than Prime. (tho limited to only 2,000,000 songs :()

It's ad based like free Pandora, but the ads seem a little less...

Got to wondering what the dot had for a dac ... took a bit of surfing,
but finally got it.

TLV320DAC3203 (ACTIVE)
Ultra Low Power Stereo Audio Codec With Integrated Headphone Amplifiers
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Superbowl commercial

https://youtu.be/8y-1h_C8ad8

had 2 more Echo dots given to me by owners that can't figure out
how to connect them to a router ...ez

I don't have enough locations for...

You Bought Smart Speakers Over the Holiday. Now What Are Amazon and Google Doing With Your Data?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/amazon-echo-alexa-google-home-spying-on-me/
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so yesterday I picked up one of these. I'm NOT a Boze fan, but it sounds OK,
a little punchy, highs OK. Goes plenty loud. FM not very impressive, but
I ran a line into it's AUX from the Dot. works...

picked up a used Flip last Monday. Had hopes after the comments in this thread. But it won't do anything, except power up.

Someday I'll get smarter about JBL Ch1nese plastic ____________
(fill...

well, the GHM wasn't going to work out for me. It was OK, but I am
already in the Echo ecosystem, so I put it on CL

Somebody got a new echo for Xmas , but wanted a GHM ... so we traded,
both...

Alexa, Should We Trust You?

The voice revolution has only just begun. Today, Alexa is a humble servant. Very soon, she could be much more—a teacher, a therapist, a confidant, an informant.
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Here in the PNW, we are super sensitive to weather conditions. Local TV forecasts are sometimes lacking.

I ran across this free Alexa skill, BIG SKY ...

Alexa can now find the right Amazon Music playlist by having a conversation with you

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18128757/alexa-amazon-music-playlist-conversations-feature

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Does anyone really like using this laughable excuse (siri) for a voice interface? There is a better choice -- and it comes from a natural partner that everyone is overlooking
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/iss-cimon-video/

https://youtu.be/3_2Jy1Ur0js

CIMON, which stands for Crew Interactive MObile companioN, was sent to the ISS to test out whether a robot...

Over Thanksgiving the new DOT Gen3 was so cheap that I couldn't pass it up. It is bigger, better looking, sounds better and setup was a breeze. It arrived today.

The plan is to move to old Gen2...