r/mildlyinfuriating • u/notworkingghost • 8h ago

Ruined by Technology When we’re not looking, Alexa displays the wrong time. I finally caught her on video.

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u/Bright-Pilot-3970 8h ago

No that’s exactly what I thought. I just assume it plays random things or the 7am if nothing else is selected.

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 7h ago

Or maybe it just sleeps from the last time it was used

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u/ActualWhiterabbit 6h ago

Just like me

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u/cardfire 3h ago

slow clap

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u/TheHobinator 4h ago

Underrated comment haha

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u/ishpatoon1982 1h ago

It's pretty rated...

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u/peldazac 7h ago

if it is displaying something that would be the screen saver. Going to sleep means not showing anything

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 7h ago

I guess I just consider them to be the same mode, but you are probably technically correct. Sleep mode on some things puts them in a low power standby mode and is used as a misnomer so I would consider this to be that kinda thing where it goes idle and doesn't update until woken back up.

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u/Haifisch2112 8h ago edited 8h ago

OP spoke to ot and woke it up. It didn't play anything random.

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u/BigNnThick 8h ago

Do you know how screensavers work?

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u/Haifisch2112 8h ago

It's not a screensaver, dipshit. It goes into sleep mode after a short time of not being used and the screen stays on whatever was displayed at the time. When OP spoke to it and woke it up, it came out of sleep mode and the time was on the screen.

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u/BigNnThick 7h ago

Nice comment edit dipshit, completely changed what you said. You realize it tells us you edited it right?

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u/Haifisch2112 7h ago

I didn't change anything but spelling. So unless you have proof otherwise, stop running your mouth.

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u/BigNnThick 7h ago

Changed it for spelling but the spelling is still wrong? Okay buddy.

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u/Haifisch2112 7h ago

First you think Alexa is considering, now you think I'm changing my comments. Go outside and touch grass.

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u/gorpie97 7h ago

Sigh.

Reddit indicates when a comment has been edited.

It's considered intellectually dishonest to edit your comment without indicating what you edited.

You're simply saying "trust me, bro", and based on the tone of your comments I can't imagine many people wanting to.

EDIT: See the little asterisk after the time stamp on the comment? That's the indicator.

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u/peldazac 7h ago

talking about intellectual honesty on reddit, wow.

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 7h ago

You're simply saying "trust me, bro", and based on the tone of your comments I can't imagine many people wanting to.

Kinda like the pot calling the kettle black at this point, slinging insults left and right isn't exactly the way to reach an audience either.

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u/LiminalGossamer 7h ago

How did you two manage to escalate this entirely inncouous comment chain so quickly lmao, whether or not a stranger's clock uses a screensaver is not this serious

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u/fatpat 4h ago

redditors be redditing the reddit

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u/Haifisch2112 7h ago

Probably because I'm giving perfectly reasonable, rational, and actual responses as to why it happened. But everyone want to read more into it than what it is like we're on the verge of being taken over by Alexa and they just can't let it go.

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u/LiminalGossamer 6h ago

Respectfully: I think it's actually because you called them a dipshit for no reason

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u/wmmameansbeerrun 7h ago

It goes into sleep mode after a short time of not being used and the screen stays on

Also known as a "Screensaver"

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u/Haifisch2112 7h ago

Two different things. But if you want to think Alexa is planning a takeover by lying about the time, you go for it.

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u/LiamOmegaHaku 7h ago

did...did anyone say that? I think it was just mostly people thinking it's weird. not that it was an apocalypse indicator.

Also, going to sleep in dark mode to preserve the screen is what we call a screen saver. Just because it's not a pipe maze or an anime girl fucking doesn't mean it isn't a screen saver. a sleep mode screen is still to save the screen.

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u/BigNnThick 7h ago

Are you have like a psychotic episode? No one said that...

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u/wmmameansbeerrun 6h ago

Your life must be a weird existence

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u/Glittering_Crab_69 7h ago

Do you know how screensavers work?

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u/ecafyelims 5h ago

maybe 7am is the alarm?

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u/cyrustakem 4h ago

but why not just turn off the fkn display to save power? if it's not even showing the time, this is just stupid and wasteful.

but sometimes i forget programmers nowadays are just fkn incomptent morons and care not about saving power or making things efficient, likely because management is a bunch of fkn idiots trying to squeeze the life out of everyone with ridiculous timelines and enshitifying products.. i fkn hate it here in the tech world

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u/soda_cookie 4h ago

Maybe 7:00 a.m. is the alarm time and the screen saver shows the alarm?

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u/Bright-Pilot-3970 2h ago

That could also be it. How the fuck was that upvoted 1700 times.