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    That’s cute and all, but it’s also pretty much what Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Spotify and all the other tech giants are doing when they’re joyfully tracking what people are doing without their knowledge or consent.

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        I’m sure they are. How could they not? They love you for who you are and what you do and what you think…

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        They are in love with the ability to make her happy, and bond emotionally.

        Tech companies are in love with the ability to analyze your emotional state so they can exploit it trough business offers giving them more money.

        While still a tad creepy that she doesn’t officially know, They and them are not the same.

        (Edit: They because OP is not the author)

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          Sure, still a bit weird tho. I mean what happens when OP is on a business trip and his gf seems to suddenly have a whole different taste in music in the morning? Could easily lead to misunderstandings…or not.

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    This is because we have a Google home which is linked to my Spotify account.

    Cute story… this is an advertisement, even if it was not the author’s intent. I enjoy human connection and mawwiage as much as the next guy, but we can have a better story with post-google open source alternatives.

    “Will you be my Spotify Duo… til death do us part?” I texted her, over my Google Pixel 3 Watch

    sniffle “Of course my love. Nike, Just Do It™” she said, between sips of her new Folger’s dark mountain blend with new hazelnut flavor.

    “Based, fam” And then they Uber off into the sunset.

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      For me this is anything but advertising. The audacity of Spotify to throw you out of listening to music, because another device is now playing music.

      Imagine your tape player stops playing music in the kitchen because you started your mp3 player on the toilet.

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      You got an open source alternative to Google home/Amazon Echo? I’d buy it.

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        Home Assistant has voice controls, but I have t had a chance to use them. I’ve heard really good things tho, just waiting on real hardware vs making my own.

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          Home assistant’s default, basic voice stuff is pretty bad. It works well if you either integrate proprietary models into it, or run your model own locally. The former is proprietary and the latter is rather expensive. Sure people will tell you you can run smaller models on basic hardware, but those are… not very capable or responsive. It takes some setting up either way.

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    I don’t know, man… I think it’s kind of creepy. I would not want my wife doing this to me. Even though it’s innocent, it’s still spying.

    And what if I decided to sleep in? Would she start getting more and more worried the longer the music wasn’t interrupted and then she would call me and wake me up? Then I would both not have been able to sleep in and found out about the spying.

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    I guess the self hosting equivalent would be logging in to the Jellyfin admin panel and looking at what is being streamed

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      That’s just the name of the device. Unless you’re saying that smart speakers, or whatever you want to call them, are inherently not wholesome, which has some merit.