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#3201010 28-Feb-2024 19:04

My son will not be driving MY car for the next 2 years at least.

He is car mad, and I mean seriously car mad, and today he came into my home office to ask me to back my car from the garage so he could get the mower out to mow the lawn. He's always talking about driving my car, so for a laugh I throw him my keys and said, I'm busy, you do it.

He scampers off giggling gleefully. Comes back a few minutes later, as I expected, suggesting, perhaps he isn't ready. As we are going to move my car, he suggests he only needs me to supervise him doing it, but I should buckle up as he is going to go straight into 5th gear, and then plant his foot.

He's normally such a bright kid. Really.

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#3201028 28-Feb-2024 19:56

Waking up today. For fun, I had set up a home automation that simulates a sunrise audiovisually in real time. When we woke up, for a while we thought we had actually been remembered to a morning at the rim of the Grand Canyon, partly because the sounds from the nature that came from different rooms and the lights were largely adapted in terms of intensity and colour gradient. A funny "alarm clock".

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#3201030 28-Feb-2024 20:00

There's actually bedside clock/radio/alarm/light/whatevers you can get that do this for you if you don't have HA, we got one for Mother Neb some years ago.

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#3201032 28-Feb-2024 20:03

Tinkerisk:

Waking up today. For fun, I had set up a home automation that simulates a sunrise audiovisually in real time. When we woke up, for a while we thought we had actually been remembered to a morning at the rim of the Grand Canyon, partly because the sounds from the nature that came from different rooms and the lights were largely adapted in terms of intensity and colour gradient. A funny "alarm clock".

The Manderin Oriental Hotel in Vegas has a 'wake scape' type alarm, where gradually, special lights simulating sunshin come on and outdoor nature noises are played at a gradually increased volume so you wake up 'naturally'. I still recall that, as being one of the best sleeps I ever had and one of the best wake ups!

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#3201994 1-Mar-2024 13:30

NATO and Zulu watch straps. So simple yet versatile and strong. They can change a watch in an instant. I am building quite a collection of them.

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#3202099 1-Mar-2024 15:25

Yesterday sitting quietly watching TV and Google home assistant pipes up for no reason. 'This is the sound of an elephant,' then loud trumpeting sound.
Gave me a hell of a fright.

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#3202267 2-Mar-2024 07:52

Eva888:

Yesterday sitting quietly watching TV and Google home assistant pipes up for no reason. 'This is the sound of an elephant,' then loud trumpeting sound.
Gave me a hell of a fright.

It’s a problem - the elephant in the room.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3202633 3-Mar-2024 12:00

Having a bit of fun with four Weka in our garden. The parents jump down from the waist height wooden retaining wall, the chicks follow them and have a quick wander. The parents jump back on top of the retaining wall / jungle but the chicks are stuck. Panicky bird noise. Carefully take a laundry basket out for then to use as a halfway point but its plastic and too slippery, then a wooden plank, but doesn't work either, finally a cardboard box so they can go from ground to laundry basket to box to retaining wall.

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#3202926 4-Mar-2024 02:01

Mrs Handles master’s graduation was today. It was the end of a two and a half year journey and best to see her get up on stage.

Lunch at Nobu was pretty spectacular as well.

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#3202935 4-Mar-2024 07:39

Eva888:
Yesterday sitting quietly watching TV and Google home assistant pipes up for no reason. 'This is the sound of an elephant,' then loud trumpeting sound.
Gave me a hell of a fright.

The tv advert promo for the program The Secret Genius of Modern Life has been slipping references in that include Hey Alexa and Ok Google. So now the promo has managed to add an entry to my Google calendar for the tv program tonight, and makes my Google speaker make elephant noises each time the promo plays.

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#3202937 4-Mar-2024 07:56

Yikes. I remember in the States (I think) someone got in trouble for that, as it's technically unauthorised access to a computer.

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#3202994 4-Mar-2024 09:06

Behodar:

Yikes. I remember in the States (I think) someone got in trouble for that, as it's technically unauthorised access to a computer.

I think if that ever happened to me, I'd be sending quite the strongly worded email to the CEO of said broadcasting company. That's entirely unacceptable.

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#3202998 4-Mar-2024 09:19

I completely disagree - I find it rather hilarious and a clever way to highlight the gaping deficiencies in so called "smart devices" - and it most definitely made me smile.

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#3203013 4-Mar-2024 10:00

We occasionally get our TV inadvertently talking to our Alexa.

A line in a TV program aimed at the program's Alexa that inadvertently triggers our Alexa is bit of a laugh. But a line in a TV ad aimed at our Alexa is a different kettle of fish altogether.

I'm wondering whether Alexa could be voice-trained better to ignore the TV messages?

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#3203022 4-Mar-2024 10:19

Same subject, different issue - watching a movie/TV show, where the main character asks Siri a question.
My HomePods, Wife's iPad and one of the kids' girlfriend's iPhones all replied in one way or another. Of course my Apple watch also tapped me on the wrist to give me some info.

Spooky but quite amusing

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