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jabroni_salad on May 13, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: GPT-4o

Do you patiently wait for alexa every time it hits you with a 'by the way....'?

Computers need to get out of your way. I don't give deference to popups just because they are being read out loud.

skyyler on May 13, 2024 [–]

Wait, Alexa reads ads out to you?

You couldn’t pay me to install one of those things.

malfist on May 13, 2024 | | [–]

Yes, and if you tell her to stop she'll tell you "okay, snoozing by the way notifications for now"

prawn on May 14, 2024 | | | [–]

This might be a US thing, or related to some functions? Ours has never done that.

drivers99 on May 13, 2024 | | [–]

It's one of the reasons I discarded mine.

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