Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 11 Aug 2025 19:53:19 GMT Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <1071hb2$3qqje$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1071ime$3qrld$2@dont-email.me> <10721bg$3uf46$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1073tgu$empg$6@dont-email.me> <689722de$0$28075$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <107ciup$2g8mr$10@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net DAjrAZdnnwfwFH+LM4ABqQR0D+1Tc37BuSGKkBdZklAtT++QX4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kx4YVDtSw457j3nih6MI+kpcRy4= sha256:WPnLEtQ9YzdYbqney0p4ByUWyIInPjpQXfdk9Fk/emI= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70800 alt.comp.os.windows-11:21936 On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:28:06 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2025-08-11, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 10/08/2025 20:49, rbowman wrote: >> >>> Many things fall into that category. I examine the problem and devise >>> a hi-tech solution in my mind and then ask the fatal question, why >>> bother? >> >> I have a pad of paper in the kitchen. >> Every time I notice I am getting low on somethging I write it on the >> pad. >> My friend yells it to Alexa. >> >> He thinks that's frightfully smart. > > "Alexa, define 'bugging'." > > Imagine my shock when I said that at a friend's place, and a smart > speaker lurking in a corner started reeling off a dictionary definition. Many people don't realize the device has very limited intelligence to recognize the 'wake word'. Once awoken everything is done by a server in the cloud. Amazon lost money on that idea. The concept was people would use it to order stuff from Amazon. The reality was Amazon has to maintain a rather expensive server farm to handle Alexa requests that generate zero income. Sometimes the razor blade scheme backfires. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal- failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/