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Don't rely on Alexa to wake you up... (www.theverge.com)

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Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

ugh I hate this. I have two absolutes when it comes to what makes a good smart device. First, it has to be able to be controlled via a local network, be it wifi, zigbee, z-wave, bluetooth, etc. There is no reason why my communication needs to leave my network when both the sender and receiver are in the same network. Second, it must work as a dumb device. If my LAN goes down or access is otherwise impeded I don't want it to be a brick.