I bought in bigly about 2 yrs ago. Now I'm dependent on it & order frequent

ly. It's way too easy for repeat purchases. I just say "Alexa order dog food" as I'm filling their bowls and she does the rest. "Based on your order history, I've found Diamond Naturals, Beef flavor, 40 pounds. It's $34.15 delivered including taxes. Would you like me to order it?"

We have a TON of lamps and ambient light in the house and they're all controlled by smart switches. The switches are also timers so they come on automatically at 6am and we tell Alexa to turn them all off whenever we go to bed. I also have fans in my shop attached to smart switches so if I'm out there and it's getting hot I can just say "Alexa, turn on the shop fans."

Hell my sprinkler system is Alexa enabled now. If we're walking around and see that the viburnum need watering I just tell Alexa to water the viburnums.

I resisted for years because of the whole invasion of privacy, always listening thing. Then I heard story after story about smart televisions, phones, etc that were doing it and I gave in to convenience. I'll tell you this, a few weeks back when I cut the fiber to my house and was without internet for three days, I was LOST.

In response to this post by EDGEMAN

Posted: 05/13/2018 at 08:25AM

Elderly will be cared for by robots. I think dogs will also help. -- VaAkita 05/12/2018 10:54PM

Express is a tabloid paper -- lchoro 05/13/2018 12:50PM

From my experience with my parents, humans aren’t getting it done -- Hokebury 05/13/2018 11:06AM

The problem with long term care quality is actually the caregivers. -- VToncologyNurse 05/13/2018 4:51PM

What’s crazy is there just isn’t a lot of difference in price... -- EDGEMAN 05/13/2018 11:39AM

Before that happens, they will be in tiny home communities -- WestyHokie 05/13/2018 10:55AM

The King Kurgan had better ideas. -- thankbud 05/13/2018 10:10AM

...It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps ** -- chumley 05/13/2018 08:05AM

This is step 1 in the robots' conquest of the human race. ** -- MP4VT2004 05/13/2018 04:36AM

Step one was getting us to put Alexa in every room. The rest is easy. ** -- HokieinTampa 05/13/2018 05:22AM

I’m resisting that intrusion. -- EDGEMAN 05/13/2018 07:46AM

I bought in bigly about 2 yrs ago. Now I'm dependent on it & order frequent -- HokieinTampa 05/13/2018 08:25AM

So is Alexa your wife, or your housekeeper? -- MP4VT2004 05/13/2018 10:54AM

Unless Alexa in fluent in espanol, she wouldn't understand my housekeepers. ** -- HokieinTampa 05/13/2018 12:36PM

I do some home automation, but nothing is voice controlled -- EDGEMAN 05/13/2018 10:15AM

Wow. This is all news to me. I couldn't imagine thinking someone was -- Coach McGuirk 05/13/2018 09:57AM

Afraid not but I agree it would be fun sometimes. They say she's not always -- HokieinTampa 05/13/2018 12:32PM

Are you doing shots yet? ** -- bigbadbird 05/12/2018 11:20PM

I bought in bigly about 2 yrs ago. Now I'm dependent on it & order frequent

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