Last year you had the red boob
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@dcon said in Last year you had the red boob:
Oh yeah, I don't want google eavesdropping.
Google's probably not eavesdropping on an Alexa device.
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@loopback0 said in Last year you had the red boob:
@dcon said in Last year you had the red boob:
Oh yeah, I don't want google eavesdropping.
Google's probably not eavesdropping on an Alexa device.
That's what they want you to think
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@Jaloopa They succeeded! The sneaks...
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@Jaloopa said in Last year you had the red boob:
@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
Any kind of timer would do but what I like with the hourglass is that I can turn it over even with e.g. greasy hands without touching it too much.
Alexa, set a timer for 3 minutes
That would probably work if, like today's youngsters, I was physically unable to not have my phone with me at all times ()...
And if I was using Alexa/OK Google/Siri/... in the first place.
Though the "look at it from afar" part would require the phone to sit on a clearly visible place which isn't necessarily very convenient. And wouldn't work at all with a "smart" speaker. Unless it was continuously counting out loud but that would be very obnoxious.
So...
Tl,dr: no.
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@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
I was physically unable to not have my phone with me at all times
I try to have it with me at all times, but I swear the thing hides from me every time I set it down for a moment.
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@error I sometimes forget to take it with me when I go to work in the morning, and sometimes don't even notice it until I get back home and see it still where I left it the previous evening (or until my home-working wife grumbles about how the notifications sound disturbed her during the day...).
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@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
And wouldn't work at all with a "smart" speaker. Unless it was continuously counting out loud but that would be very obnoxious.
You can get Alexa devices with screens or even an Alexa wall clock. Google probably so similar.
I assume there's a $1000 stand for Siri.
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@loopback0 said in Last year you had the red boob:
@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
And wouldn't work at all with a "smart" speaker. Unless it was continuously counting out loud but that would be very obnoxious.
You can get Alexa devices with screens or even an Alexa wall clock. Google probably so similar.
I assume there's a $1000 stand for Siri.
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@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
Though the "look at it from afar" part would require the phone to sit on a clearly visible place which isn't necessarily very convenient. And wouldn't work at all with a "smart" speaker. Unless it was continuously counting out loud but that would be very obnoxious.
Alexa, how long is left on my timer
We bought an echo dot for the kitchen because it was about the same price as a digital radio and my wife wanted to be able to listen to LBC. Timers for cooking is probably the most useful thing about it for me
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@Jaloopa Stop trying to bust my . The best short-duration cooking timer is an hourglass, full stop.
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@Jaloopa I have an Echo dot in the kitchen and it's used mostly for kitchen timers, streaming music and Internet radio. Plus the occasional terrible joke.
@Jaloopa said in Last year you had the red boob:
Alexa, how long
islefton my timerSave yourself some words.
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@loopback0 said in Last year you had the red boob:
@Jaloopa I have an Echo dot in the kitchen and it's used mostly for kitchen timers, streaming music and Internet radio. Plus the occasional terrible joke.
@Jaloopa said in Last year you had the red boob:
Alexa, how long
islefton my timerSave yourself some words.
Ah, nice.
The other fun thing is working out what it accepts as synonyms for stop. These work:
- Shut up
- Shut it
- Cease
These don't:
- Pack it in
- Desist
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@Jaloopa said in Last year you had the red boob:
The other fun thing is working out what it accepts as synonyms for stop. These work:
"shut the fuck up" also works.
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@Jaloopa I'm always quietly amused whenever somebody in a meeting is monologuing only to have to interrupt themselves with "No Siricortanagoogle, not now!".
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@cvi said in Last year you had the red boob:
cortana
Yeah, the number of people using that is probably right after bixbi.
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@topspin True, should have gone for Googlexasiri or something.
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@topspin She was actually useful until Microsoft stopped carving pieces off of her and just chopped off her head entirely... ("For business!")
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@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
an hourglass, full stop.
If it's fully stopped you need to flip it back over.
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@cvi said in Last year you had the red boob:
Googlexasiri
@cvi said in Last year you had the red boob:
Siricortanagoogle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk&index=9&list=PLjl8iFS113VuweUrBsLmOZj7sbv67jLNV&t=0s
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@topspin said in Last year you had the red boob:
@cvi said in Last year you had the red boob:
cortana
Yeah, the number of people using that is probably right after bixbi.
I'm using Bixby, but only because she cannot be disabled and always thinks I'm talking to her.
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@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
@Jaloopa Stop trying to bust my . The best short-duration cooking timer is an hourglass, full stop.
Does it make noise or something when it runs out? I can assure you that I would burn lots of stuff without it being able to get my attention like that.
I use the timer on my oven all the time. When I need multiple timers I start using my phone. Which lives nearby so it's easy to go grab.
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@cvi said in Last year you had the red boob:
@Jaloopa I'm always quietly amused whenever somebody in a meeting is monologuing only to have to interrupt themselves with "No Siricortanagoogle, not now!".
Just last night I was watching a YouTuber talking about DMCA issues with Twitch, and he happened to mention Amazon's acquisition of Twitch. Suddenly, Google Assistant interrupted him to inform us all of the date and price of the acquisition. "Thank you, Google.... Thank you. :
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@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
short-duration cooking timer ... hourglass
An hour is not a short duration for cooking.
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If I had an hourglass in the kitchen, I wouldn't want a short-duration
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@HardwareGeek said in Last year you had the red boob:
@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
short-duration cooking timer ... hourglass
An hour is not a short duration for cooking.
Well that's English's fault for having a misleading word. The French word for "hourglass" is "sablier" (literally, something like "sand-thing") which doesn't have this problem. Though you might argue that modern hourglasses probably don't use sand anymore but some sort of artificially-made powder (I have no idea, I'm just guessing), but then we might get into a geological discussion of what "sand" means (hint: size does matter, sometimes).
@boomzilla said in Last year you had the red boob:
Does it make noise or something when it runs out? I can assure you that I would burn lots of stuff without it being able to get my attention like that.
No, it doesn't, but then I'm not old enough to start losing my mind so easily.
Anyway my main use-case is for approximate duration where I just want to avoid losing track of time (i.e. starting to do something "for 2 minutes" and it ending up taking 5 or more...) and often the simple fact of turning the hourglass is enough to shift my mind in a state where I'm keeping a close eye on it (kind of like putting an object in an unusual place is sometimes enough to remember a totally unrelated thing). Also I have 3 hourglasses of different duration (3-4-5 min) on the same frame so I can roughly measure times between 3 and 5 min when I'm not sure how long whatever's cooking needs (but I know that it needs not being left alone!). Having a noise after 3 min (for example) would be annoying, having the noise after 5 min would be half-useless.
I use the timer on my oven all the time.
Or the one on my cooker, yes. Mostly depending on which of the appliance I'm actively using at the time. But those are for exact duration (and usually long-ish ones, at least 10 min), I find them annoying when I need to constantly go back to them and set them again for 3 more minutes (in that case, I'll rather use the hourglass). Short duration means I can't leave the kitchen anyway, so it's really just a way to be able to not stand there twiddling my thumbs.
All in all, it's a usability/functionality balance. The hourglass has a very limited functionality, but I find that its usability in a kitchen environment is greater than the alternatives, so I keep using it. We all developers should keep that in mind: more functionalities is not always better...
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@error said in Last year you had the red boob:
@topspin said in Last year you had the red boob:
@cvi said in Last year you had the red boob:
cortana
Yeah, the number of people using that is probably right after bixbi.
I'm using Bixby, but only because she cannot be disabled and always thinks I'm talking to her.
There's too many combinations in here that I'm not sure which parts to chop out and put into QOOC.
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@remi said in Last year you had the red boob:
a geological discussion of what "sand" means
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, thatβs soil comprised of more than 90% sand.
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@kazitor That's one possible definition, yes.