# Stoked!
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26
**Category:** General
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26 "2019-03-04T16:28:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 9
### Author:  [@anon90826813](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon90826813)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/168 "2019-07-17T12:36:50Z")
No one needs any of what those things offer, it’s just a gadget to keep up with the Jones’.
Fair enough, people will invent things for the sake of it but keep that shit on a Tomorrow’s World episode not in everyday life.
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### Author:  [@judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/judithpriest)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/169 "2019-07-17T12:37:05Z")
when i’m cooking alexa is easier to change the music without my phone getting covered in nonsense. also good for asking for measurement differences.
and she can do fart noises.
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### Author:  [@Cmac](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Cmac)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/170 "2019-07-17T12:37:59Z")
we use it as a glorified soundbar - everyone in the family can go ‘Alexa, connect to my device’ and share their tunes. This is the cheapest and easiest way to do this on a budget.
its in the kitchen - so timers are actually pretty handy.
My daughter is pretty badly dyslexic, and asks it ‘how do you spell’ quite often. It’s good for that.
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### Author:  [@chasone](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/chasone)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/171 "2019-07-17T12:38:24Z")
Ended up getting a Google Home Mini, free, with a Spotify account. It’s been pretty cool for just asking it to play whatever music, or asking it the news etc in the morning when I’m having breakfast etc. My girls ask it all sorts of random questions too. I’m sure the novelty will wear off, but, privacy issues aside, it’s okay for now.
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### Author:  [@Cmac](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Cmac)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/172 "2019-07-17T12:39:34Z")
plus, all your iOS and Android devices are listening and watching if they want to be anyway.
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### Author:  [@Cmac](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Cmac)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/173 "2019-07-17T12:45:13Z")
I think consumer tech owes so much to star trek - communicators = mobile phones, etc.
Once voice recognition gets to the point of ‘if there’s any updates in the footy thread on ukskate, play them on the big telly’
that will rock - we have to teach the ML how people use language first.
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### Author:  [@Cmac](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Cmac)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/174 "2019-07-17T12:47:45Z")
plus this is now a thing:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzArUguNC70)
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### Author:  [@anon90826813](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon90826813)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/175 "2019-07-17T12:50:09Z")
I doubt my 3310 is listening in
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### Author:  [@Cmac](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Cmac)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/176 "2019-07-17T12:51:01Z")
> [@anon90826813](#):
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> t keep that shit on a Tomorrow’s World episode not in everyday life.
😂🤣🥇💋
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### Author:  [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/177 "2019-07-17T13:19:16Z")
So Alexa, etc. is a radio. Gotcha.
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### Author:  [@Cmac](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Cmac)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/178 "2019-07-17T13:33:10Z")
A radio with your own personal DJ, who will google shit for you, has an accurate watch and a photographic memory, is endlessly patient, and will do other shit too.
¯\_(ツ)\_/¯
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### Author:  [@ciaran](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/ciaran)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/179 "2019-07-17T13:35:42Z")
Nope, you’re not selling it to me, ha. The digital radio in my kitchen, which I connect a phone or ipad to play 6music, soundcloud or whatever does that too.
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### Author:  [@Cmac](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Cmac)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/180 "2019-07-17T13:48:44Z")
Oh, I totally admit I’m a sold-to sheeple.
I just don’t GAF, unfortunately - and I know enough to know that I should.
it’s a bit shit.
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### Author:  [@jimvo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimvo)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/181 "2019-07-17T13:51:31Z")
> **[Amazon staff listen to customers' Alexa recordings, report says](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/11/amazon-staff-listen-to-customers-alexa-recordings-report-says)**
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> Staff review audio in effort to help AI-powered voice assistant respond to commands
Pretty weird. And that’s on top of the data capture stuff
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### Author:  [@Mark](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mark)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/182 "2019-07-17T15:13:59Z")
I had an Amazon dot, pretty much useless unless you subscribe to amazon music, ended up sending it back. I do have a google home speaker that I can control to some extent the sonos system, but is useful for setting alarms when cooking, weather, random factchecking etc.
You can listen to [ALL your google voice searches](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6030020?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en&oco=0), dating years back, it’s fucking terrifying.
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### Author:  [@Load](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Load)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/183 "2019-07-17T16:05:28Z")
Have two Google home devices - one we got for free via spotify and one through work. been a lifesaver in terms of acting as a white noise machine to help our baby through her first few months of sleeping, playing her nursery rhymes and now it’s on a constant fucking repeat of the Moana soundtrack. Like others have said it’s good for changing music while cooking and just doing stuff you’d normally do on your phone (besides texting) without having to stop and type. Give me convenience or give me death, I guess. And also, listen to what my conversations are about, I’m as interesting as a rotten knot in an old piece of driftwood.
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### Author:  [@Mush](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mush)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/184 "2019-07-17T16:11:42Z")
Looked at both of the Google and Amazon offerings recently and neither have any value for me.
I’ve got Bluetooth speakers and network connectivity around the house with other things anyway.
It would just be a novelty purchase and I suspect the novelty would wear off very shortly.
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### Author:  [@Load](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Load)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/185 "2019-07-17T16:21:57Z")
We even travel with one. We’re locked in, ha.
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### Author:  [@tbk11](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/tbk11)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/186 "2019-07-17T18:38:45Z")
4 hours at work tomorrow then off to Marseille till Monday, vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv stoked
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### Author:  [@dontcomply](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/dontcomply)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/stoked/26/187 "2019-07-19T09:32:38Z")
found some good crust
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