Halp Android devices

Alexa is kinda stupid.

the tech is awesome as fuck, but they need to work on their backend service. neighbors ordered a google home, gonna see if thats any better.
 
isn't alexa the only one that really takes context into consideration at this point?

they all seem gimmicky to me at the moment, maybe that'll change in the future.
 
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happened moreso on android up to 5.0. Either it just straight out didnt work, wasnt available (most likely), or performed poorly. they rewrote the core layer in 6 for increased performance on older devices. Ive found that my devices actually run BETTER on newer versions after kitkat.

then theres added bonus, like you said, of things like slimrom, etc

Switching from Dalvik VM to ART was a huge step. Dalvik was old and needed and upgrade. I so wish I was working at Google on Android. I'm just not that smart, or too lazy, or both.


I would want my house to talk in Morgan Freeman's voice. On saturday night I watched 2 hours of Into the Wormhole.

I could lay on his chest and live there for the rest of my life while he speaks.
 
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ok, so alexa may be dumb, but goddamn if it isnt awesome to talk to my house. Its reliable, and quick for simply commands. I cant give it complex orders or natural language stuff like google, but simple commands work great.

Alexa, house lights on (all lights in the house go on in about 1 second)
Alexa, house house lights at 10%
Alexa, living room lights at 100%
etc etc


Walked through the house in a stupor last night to get something, and rather than constantly running into shit, i just muttered at alexa when i was coming down the stairs and the whole house was lit nicely to a low level such that i didnt run into things, but it also didnt blind me.
 
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