More on Alexa+ - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
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More on Alexa+ - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
So I usually say "Alexa what's the GMT?"
Old Alexa would promptly give me an answer.
New Alexa+ takes about five seconds of deep (and probably power consuming) thinking and then tells me the meaning of GMT.
Then I yell that I want the time in GMT and, after that five second pause, tells me the GMT time (but not the date, which is often, for me, tomorrow.)
On another front, when I asked Alexa+ for the opening hours of our local bagel store it responded with the location of bagel places in Atlantic city - 3000 miles from me - and then on retry ones in Las Vegas - 700 miles from me.
@karlauerbach "I'm sorry Karl, I'm afraid I can't do that."
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More on Alexa+ - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
So I usually say "Alexa what's the GMT?"
Old Alexa would promptly give me an answer.
New Alexa+ takes about five seconds of deep (and probably power consuming) thinking and then tells me the meaning of GMT.
Then I yell that I want the time in GMT and, after that five second pause, tells me the GMT time (but not the date, which is often, for me, tomorrow.)
On another front, when I asked Alexa+ for the opening hours of our local bagel store it responded with the location of bagel places in Atlantic city - 3000 miles from me - and then on retry ones in Las Vegas - 700 miles from me.
Hi Karl, why don't you try asking that amazonian what a Thomas Guide is
#tallship #passive_listening #Industrial_surveillance #sidewalk #BLE
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More on Alexa+ - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
So I usually say "Alexa what's the GMT?"
Old Alexa would promptly give me an answer.
New Alexa+ takes about five seconds of deep (and probably power consuming) thinking and then tells me the meaning of GMT.
Then I yell that I want the time in GMT and, after that five second pause, tells me the GMT time (but not the date, which is often, for me, tomorrow.)
On another front, when I asked Alexa+ for the opening hours of our local bagel store it responded with the location of bagel places in Atlantic city - 3000 miles from me - and then on retry ones in Las Vegas - 700 miles from me.
@karlauerbach Perhaps Alexa lives in the US East data center.
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@karlauerbach Perhaps Alexa lives in the US East data center.
@alison I've asked her after that episode "Where do you think we are?" and she gave me the correct, Santa Cruz, answer.
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Hi Karl, why don't you try asking that amazonian what a Thomas Guide is
#tallship #passive_listening #Industrial_surveillance #sidewalk #BLE
@tallship Do Thomas Brothers maps still exist?
I can't remember ever having a car in the pre-internet world that didn't have one.
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More on Alexa+ - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
So I usually say "Alexa what's the GMT?"
Old Alexa would promptly give me an answer.
New Alexa+ takes about five seconds of deep (and probably power consuming) thinking and then tells me the meaning of GMT.
Then I yell that I want the time in GMT and, after that five second pause, tells me the GMT time (but not the date, which is often, for me, tomorrow.)
On another front, when I asked Alexa+ for the opening hours of our local bagel store it responded with the location of bagel places in Atlantic city - 3000 miles from me - and then on retry ones in Las Vegas - 700 miles from me.
@karlauerbach goog maps last night: “Laundromat?” “Car wash.”
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More on Alexa+ - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
So I usually say "Alexa what's the GMT?"
Old Alexa would promptly give me an answer.
New Alexa+ takes about five seconds of deep (and probably power consuming) thinking and then tells me the meaning of GMT.
Then I yell that I want the time in GMT and, after that five second pause, tells me the GMT time (but not the date, which is often, for me, tomorrow.)
On another front, when I asked Alexa+ for the opening hours of our local bagel store it responded with the location of bagel places in Atlantic city - 3000 miles from me - and then on retry ones in Las Vegas - 700 miles from me.
@karlauerbach
my recommendation:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com
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@karlauerbach
my recommendation:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com
(have not tried with voice)@knutson_brain By-the-way, DuckDuckGo, to a larger or smaller degree, appears to have become a front end for Bing. I do not know the details.
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@knutson_brain By-the-way, DuckDuckGo, to a larger or smaller degree, appears to have become a front end for Bing. I do not know the details.
@karlauerbach
! will check … tia
(i also have been known to use
the old engines like excite.com
for fast searches) -
@alison I've asked her after that episode "Where do you think we are?" and she gave me the correct, Santa Cruz, answer.
@karlauerbach Alexa?
