Thinking about buying this but would like to credible reviews or insight. This is a big purchase for us and want to make sure we aren’t setting ourselves up for failure. I can’t go and spend $1000 on something right now, but just trying to get ahead of whatever El Niño has in store for us in Houston and this seems like the best option that I can find. $700 and comes with a solar panel. Thoughts? Advice?
Absolutely exhausted from doing absolutely nothing.
Well, it has come to this… I don’t even want to say I’ve given up, but what else would you call it? We all know the shit storm of a world we are greeted with the second we open our eyes and my existential dread grows daily. I need my people, a support group, just anything but this! I try to be involved in activism and standing up for what’s right but I’m just scared and feel powerless more and more. Where the hell are the support groups to cope with how this world is evolving? The people who I can talk with to share similar sentiments?? Not an echo chamber, but a place where others put their minds together and teach one another how to prep for the worst, ideas, advice, different outlooks (and not all negative).
I am in no way saying I want to live in a bubble where I don’t face reality of what’s happening in this world, but the depression, doom scrolling, dead ends and having no one to run to to talk about what I’m experiencing is very isolating. VERRYYY. Any additional subreddits? Places? Organizations? PEOPLE? Like anything atp. Houston, TX here
I'm not sure if this is similar to what any of you are experiencing.. but I need all the answers I can get. And I know I’m posting on a Firestick page and not the FireTV, but Reddit told me I haven’t posted enough to contribute to the TV page.. so here I am.
We've had our FireTV for about 7 months now. My husband likes to get a long strip of LED's and stick them behind our tvs on the outer edge to have some added visual ambiance in the back drop when watching movies and it's controlled by a little remote with a coin battery. It is plugged into the tv via USB for its power source so the lights will turn on as soon as I turn on the tv.
Now, since we've installed these lights, they will turn on all on their own while the TV is off. Sometimes for 5 secs, sometimes for a whole minute or so. No one has touched the remote, nothing. I can't tell if I'm paranoid, but I swear it turns on mostly when there are noises present, almost like it's responding to something. But sometimes there is no sound occurring when this happens (middle of the night).
Now I can't sit here and say that I know the inner workings of how FireTV's work, but I can't imagine that it's "listening" to us like Alexa does. I was certain that the only audio it is capable of picking up was through the remote itself and ONLY by clicking on the microphone button. Am I missing something?
So my question is: is my TV listening to me? Or is there a glitch and it's just weirdly idling in the background making my lights respond? It creeps me out given the coincidental responding light show whenever I start talking or doing stuff in the kitchen, anything that creates noise. It's been bugging me forever and I can't think of a more perfect platform to express my concerns...