re: Amazon locks man out of account (shuts down his home automation)

Seems like you are a hardcore racists if your initial reaction of something being done to you by someone who isn't the same color as you is to call them a racist. You just can't imagine any other scenario where what they said, could ever come out as being anything other than a racist remark. You are racist to have such thoughts.

Pays to be old school honestly

I don’t need smart sinks and smart fridges with a tv on it and smart blinds and smart thermostats and smart locks and smart garage openers

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smart blinds

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simple zigbee blinds are the tits especially if the windows are in a hard-to-reach location or you have a bunch of them.

"I think you know what the problem is as well as I do."

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I use racial remarks all the time in my house.

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Same here. It’s quite the stress releaser to randomly scream out a racial slur.

This reminds me of a story the comedian Chad Daniels tells. He was on the road, staying in a hotel. He was born and raised in Minnesota, still lives there today, and is a huge Vikings fan.

Anyway, he was watching a game alone in his room. Things weren't going well, the Vikings were getting the shite kicked out of them. Suddenly, there's a loud knock at his door. He looks out the peep hole deal and sees two cops and a, presumably, hotel manager. He opens the door and they proceed to ask what was going on and where his significant other is.

He's confused as he is alone. He tells them that, and they ask if they can look around. He let them, and they found no one else in the room.

The story of what had happened was......he got into the game and was being loud. His hotel neighbors heard him yell, "You stupid fricking whore, get off the ground! Stop being a bitch!". They thought he was talking to a person, called the front desk, who called the police.

They all laughed and laughed.

Now, Alexa and whatever other electronic twats you think you need can be those neighbors.

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Instead, the Eufy doorbell had issued an automated response: “Excuse me, can I help you?”

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Sounds like a veiled accusation of the visitor being up to no good.

Nope. And he never will.

He's still seriously considering shutting it down. That should have been his first reaction after finding out what happened.

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Due to this experience, I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of Amazon Echo devices and will caution others about this incident. 

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I don’t believe in a lot of “smart devices” if only because web security is an issue with a lot of them.

This reinforces my position.

Zero sympathy for people who need to be so “connected”