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Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Google Home is the biggest piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure to use.

It used to work really well, and now it's trash. I don't know how they could fuck something up so badly.

[–] APassenger 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Home Assistant works well on a cheap(-ish) Raspberry Pi. They're even working to get voice fully capable.

It can be fully local and is FOSS, for those for whom that matters.

[–] Archer 1 points 4 months ago

If you’re using HA then there is an open source alternative to Alexa! https://heywillow.io/components/willow-inference-server/

[–] TehWorld 3 points 4 months ago

I went with the BezosBoxHomeAsssssistant. … it sucks too. The challenge to my mind is that it’s hard to make any profit on these things, so it’s hard to spend the dev and server $$$ required to actually make the systems do what they should.