See the same on my pi-hole. Chromecast is especially evil.

Yeah. I think that is overkill. They leave the voice tied to a button so they don’t have to filter out background for a command. This is just cost driven and so far cost of manufacture still drives companies … Not data gained through background monitoring. Your data is valuable but not THAT valuable yet

There weren’t cameras. Source old tech from the day.

Or a cheap Chinese projector and a Linux laptop.

There are smart switches and fans and other switchable devices that are controlled through schedule and manual BT switches and ir sensors - rather than voice. I can use voice to control things but I prefer the lights to match my day without my interactions being necessary.

I’ve used it from way back when and it gets progressively worse each year. This app used to save my ass drunk typing and absolutely can’t now. Course it could be me getting worse so I don’t know.

Yeah the price jump killed me making a vanilla android tv unit this year. Chromecast is an outright spy but we dance for a little while longer

Hell yeah it is and is available certain places in its entirety. Don’t get the usa distribution of the original run if you want to see all the boobs that were cut out. Was actually a shocker to me.

I ran across 18v AC of his wrath stripping one side of the phone wire with my teeth on a scheme to capture and store \ use ring voltage to power devices. Free electricity you know.