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Google Home Mini for $1
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Yep, this is supposedly how they work currently, they don't send anything home until they hear the trigger word, but if this is the case I don't understand how they are being used as crime scene witnesses, unless someone is going "Alexa, I am going to kill my wife now". Seems like the live audio is still being saved somewhere, and even if it's not, it's a small update to do so once the companies decide it would be more advantageous for them. It's not like they sign a contract guaranteeing that they will always operate this way.
Hmm so i signed up for 0.99 3 months and when i click to upgrade to premium family it wants to charge me $18 is this correct ?
EDIT : nm looks like this is US only, oh well only cost me .99 cents
EDIT : nm looks like this is US only, oh well only cost me .99 cents
i thought it was on by default and you would have to turn it off.
It asks you when you're setting up your phone (or did when I last did this anyway.)
Think about it like this:
In order for Google home to hear you say "hey Google" it would need to hear you say everything else too. It doesn't just start listening to only hey Google because it doesn't know when you'd actually say it unless it was listening in the first place.
I imagine that's how it works anyway.
So with that being said, maybe they have an AI learning algorithm that listens to your accent to help it understand the way you talk. So if you have a thick accent, it can still understand "hey Google" clearly enough.
I'm still getting one it's a $1.06 lol
Same lol. Just opened spotify and it said to claim my free Google mini lol
Man I love Competition. Amazon just hit back with a $2 echo 3rd gen with 3 months of amazon music unlimited for $2 total. Check Slick deals. Just got an 3rd gen dot for $1.07 coming next week!
Big money to be made selling your conversations to marketing firms! :)
When 23 and me starts selling DNA tests for $1, be very very afraid.
What the hell kind of FedEx service is Google using that takes ELEVEN DAMN DAYS to deliver?
Shipped November 17
Arriving November 28
I'll be sure to never order anything else from the Google Store.
Christ.
Shipped November 17
Arriving November 28
I'll be sure to never order anything else from the Google Store.
Christ.
In the slick deals post it states you can cancel during shipping confirmation, this means I have to wait till it ships to cancel correct?
... and then you realize that not even 30 years ago, institutions like the stasi had to go through great lenghts to get this much access to someone's life.
yeah, if only open source operating systems where a thing that exists.... oh, wait!
Nobody can guarantee you that they don't have a few more secret key words for marketing or other purposes.
Especially after this year, American tech companies do not deserve any benefit of the doubt. none.
yeah, if only open source operating systems where a thing that exists.... oh, wait!
Nobody can guarantee you that they don't have a few more secret key words for marketing or other purposes.
Especially after this year, American tech companies do not deserve any benefit of the doubt. none.
Yeah mine shipped the 18th and won't be arriving until the 26th. It's California to Arizona. Should take at most 3 days. Maybe the holidays are slowing things down I don't know. Fedex.
I had someone hack my spotify account, enable family subscriptions, add their address, order the google home mini, and then put everything back.
It was fucking weird and I was pissed.
It was fucking weird and I was pissed.
They shipped it smart post, which is the slowest service any of these companies offer outside of Media Mail, I think. Even then it might be slower.
FedEx, in my experience, is also just slower than the other two main shipment companies in general.
That seems... stupid? I made a new account for this and it took no time at all. Can't imagine anyone trying to swipe a Spotify account has a lot of common sense though.
FedEx, in my experience, is also just slower than the other two main shipment companies in general.
That seems... stupid? I made a new account for this and it took no time at all. Can't imagine anyone trying to swipe a Spotify account has a lot of common sense though.
Mine is shipping by Fedex Smartpost, that slow as molasses service where they hand it off to the post office towards the end of delivery.
Did any of you have to wait to redeem the Google Home Mini after signing up for Premium? I got the message that I'd be eligible for the Mini, but never received an email for it and when I click step #3 on the Slickdeals page it says "We're sorry but you're not able to redeem at this moment."
Dang, I'm always late in seeing these threads. Signed up but didn't get an email for the Google Home yet...
Is this still available? Didn't see it on Slick Deals.
Is this still available? Didn't see it on Slick Deals.
The Xbox Alexa integration actually is pretty damn cool. I don't care if Amazon is now listening to everything that happens in my house. I mean I kind of do but honestly they aren't really hearing much. I'm pretty quiet.
It's dead again. I'm not sure if it's because they keep running out of echos, or if it's officially dead since it popped up twice in a week. The notification spam from the slick deals app on my Apple Watch was worth it lol
What sort of reductive reasoning is this? "You already own a portable device that gives you access to virtually all of mankind's collective knowledge and it has an optional camera, so I guess you may as well just litter your home with always-on audio recording trinkets which store your audio on servers operated by a company that explicitly uses your data in undefined ways for financial gain. Lol."
Email I got says expecting delivery is like December 15th. They aren't shipping yet.
Yeah, these are slow to ship out. I ordered one on the 10th. It didn't ship until the 18th, and it didn't arrive until the 24th.
