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Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

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Post by sagarm »

addandsubtract wrote: post #449
ehsankia wrote: post #365

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The new Android 11 power menu screen has been a life changer for me. I now control my lights with my phone 90% of the time since it's literally one power button click away, and I always have my phone on me.

It doesn't work with hue lights, so it's worthless to me. Besides, I just have a on/off widget on my home screen which is faster and more reliable than holding the power button.

It does work with Hue lights. You need to connect your Hue lights to your Google home app first, though.

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Post by will_pseudonym »

will_pseudonym wrote: post #24
Zelphyr wrote: post #19

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I coined "Brogdon's Law" (probably not original to me by any stretch) several years ago: The answer to any technical problem will present itself within 30 seconds (sometimes minutes) of asking "Hey, can you take a look at this?"

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." The concept is named after Ward Cunningham, father of the wiki. According to Steven McGeady, the law's author, Wikipedia may be the most well-known demonstration of this law. Cunningham's Law can be considered the Internet equivalent…

It's not until just now that I realized the irony inherent in my reply. What the person I was replying to did was to "post the wrong answer", and I was uncontrollably impelled to enact the very phenomenon I was describing, completely unaware I was doing so.

Whether unintentional or not, it has put a huge smile on my face.

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Post by razster »

pradn wrote: post #157
acid__ wrote: post #124

I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.” 80% of the time my lights would turn on. 20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.” And I’d stand there in the dark, listening to music I don’t like, questioning my life decisions.

As a Google employee, I really don't want to be saying "Ok, Google" in my home all the time. It's totally possible for me to go to work in a subway that has Google ads, waste time on my Pixel, work at the Google office for eight hours, waste time on my Pixel, walk past the same ads on the way home, watch YouTube videos and do Google searches about random topics, and ask Google to set an alarm before I go to sleep. It…

Also being spied on, according to the latest bit of news. Escape while you can I say.

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Post by whitepirate20 »

acid__ wrote: post #124

I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.” 80% of the time my lights would turn on. 20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.” And I’d stand there in the dark, listening to music I don’t like, questioning my life decisions.

LOL

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Post by bigwavedave »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #436
MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #116

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Maybe Careless Whisper too while it's at it.

You totally missed the joke

I don't think they did. Rick Rolling is fairly common- the commenter you replied to suggested "Careless Whisper" in addition to the Rick Roll because it would be a careless whisper that would cause the Rick Roll to play. They were adding a layer to the original joke. At least, that's what it seemed like to me.

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Post by danielheath »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #321
jen729w wrote: post #254

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Siri (HomePod) was getting confused with my “turn everything off” incantation, so I’ve changed the name of the ‘scene’ and now when we leave the house we instruct her to “PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN”. Because coffee is for closers.

I had to laugh out loud. I suddenly envisioned a future where we slowly developed an arsenal of such workarounds for the flawed automation creeping into every aspect of private and public life, where it reached a point where people just accepted that that's the way things are done. My grandchildren naturally yell "put that coffee down" when leaving the house, because that's just how you turn off everything. Sure ther…

“The Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy” had a great bit on this in 1979, describing gesture-controlled televisions that randomly changed channel unless you sat perfectly still, etc.

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princevegeta89 wrote: post #151

"OK Google" is the biggest problem I find with Google Home and Google Assistant so far. Things like "Alexa" and "Siri" are short and seem more practical. When I say "Ok Google", I feel like doing a mouth-exercise. And multiply this extra effort over the number of times you need to apply it in a single session. It is a pain. Why didn't Google ever change it?!

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Post by rorykoehler »

Kaze404 wrote: post #290
rorykoehler wrote: post #269

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That’s an awful trade off.

How is it a trade off? You can use it for the things it's good at, and not use it for the things it sucks at. Seems fine to me.

Privacy is also a concern.

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Post by baldeagle »

dkonofalski wrote: post #446
dkonofalski wrote: post #153

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You can also say "Set a timer for four minutes".

Fine, you can also say "Set a timer", pause for a hot take, and then say "four minutes" and it's fine. I just tried it and it worked without any issue.

Thank you. I’ll try to add a beat.
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