u/alleyoopoop

▲ 32 r/alexa

Echo Dot is totally unreliable now

I ask for the weather at 10 PM. She says the high for today will be in the mid-90's. I say the high for today was 78 and that was hours ago. She says the temperature can vary in different parts of town. I live in a town of about six square miles. The next morning I ask for the weather, and she says a high of 89. It's about 55 out, and every internet weather service says the high will be in the mid-60's (which it was). As I write this, it's 4 AM. I ask Alexa when sunrise is. She says 6:49. The time and date webpage says 5:19, and I know for a fact that the sun rose about that time yesterday. I tell Alexa this, and she says oops, sunrise was at 5:15 today. I say it's 4 AM, the sun hasn't risen yet. She repeats that sunrise was at 5:15 today. I ask the current time. She says it's 4:01 AM.

I've had it for ten years, and it worked fairly well until a couple of weeks ago, when the voice changed to become much more annoying, and it made the announcement that its AI was upgraded. It is totally unreliable now.

Edit: Great thanks to u/segfalt31337, who suggested I tell echo to end Alexa+. I did, and it appears that I have my old, more accurate version back. Also, for the several people who asked, I did verify that Alexa+ was talking about the right city.

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u/alleyoopoop — 16 hours ago
▲ 2 r/Portal

Fedora 43 update broke Portal

I recently switched to Fedora 43 KDE from Windows, and I like almost everything about it. A couple of weeks ago, I installed Steam and Portal, and it worked perfectly, but it stopped working after an update to Fedora. It doesn't seem to be a Steam problem, because Portal 2 works, but I've tried several things, including reinstalling steam, and I still can't get Portal to run again. Who do I contact to ask about a fix for this?

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u/alleyoopoop — 2 months ago
▲ 21 r/Fedora

Fedora 43 now on kernel 7.0.4

I have always heard that it's best to wait a few weeks for the more adventurous to find bugs in major new releases like Fedora 44. I just did a dnf upgrade on Fedora 43 KDE (without saying yes), and it wants to install kernel 7.0.4-100. It's already on plasma 6.6.4, so it seems like you're not giving much up by staying on 43. Is there a compelling reason not to wait?

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u/alleyoopoop — 2 months ago