wegbier@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heardwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1305arrow-down115
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minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoother than drop all support when “big ma bell” enters the chat with a corporate competitor and you have aging infrastructure built into your home. it’ll be like those crappy intercom wall units from the 1970s all over again, except you won’t be able to turn on your lights or plugs.
minus-squareFrederikNJS@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoEven if all support is dropped, everything is running on open source software, so nothing is going to stop working as a result of dropped support. Finding replacements might become tricky at some point though.
other than drop all support when “big ma bell” enters the chat with a corporate competitor and you have aging infrastructure built into your home.
it’ll be like those crappy intercom wall units from the 1970s all over again, except you won’t be able to turn on your lights or plugs.
Even if all support is dropped, everything is running on open source software, so nothing is going to stop working as a result of dropped support.
Finding replacements might become tricky at some point though.