It's pretty foolproof. You say: "Alexa, are you switched off?"
If it is, it says "Yes," in a muffled voice. Never fails.
In Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty Four, houses were equipped with flat panel "telescreens" that broadcast propaganda all day (MSM?) and they also listened to you and watched you 24/7 (Think Edward Snowdon) in case you did the least slightly subversive thing.
OK, he was off by a few years but that was a pretty good guess right back in 1949 when the book was published.
How do you know it's really off?
Remember corded kitchen phones? The mouthpiece was always active.
Only in the kitchen?
Interesting, fren. I did not know this.
I unplug that hoe and put it in a closet in its box π
Like a gremlin?
LOL
It's pretty foolproof. You say: "Alexa, are you switched off?" If it is, it says "Yes," in a muffled voice. Never fails.
In Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty Four, houses were equipped with flat panel "telescreens" that broadcast propaganda all day (MSM?) and they also listened to you and watched you 24/7 (Think Edward Snowdon) in case you did the least slightly subversive thing.
OK, he was off by a few years but that was a pretty good guess right back in 1949 when the book was published.
Perhaps it wasn't a guess, but part of the long-term DS playbook...and Orwell had read it.