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[–] 46 points 1 month ago (10 children)

10 years ago, I privately refused a gifted Alexa after Christmas, explaining "Hey I work in the industry, I know people who work for FAANG, Amazon spending billions on very smart engineers building systems to harvest data is a bet that they will be able to extract even more money from me, is it still within the return window." My aunt told me to go live in a cave.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Has she seen the price of caves lately?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    duh... you don't buy a nice cave, you buy a starter cave and install grey click flooring and a pot faucet over the stove.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    I was gifted an Alexa by a (previous) girlfriend. I haven't even opened it because I have very little use for an AI companion. And I too know people working in FAANG and how invasive those smart devices are.

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