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I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they burn gbs a day of bandwidth (twitter.com)

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[–] Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Amazon still uses them.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you never use them, why are they even on?

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's an echo show, so probably for clock and weather, which also kinda explains the high data usage since it is regularly sending images to be displayed.

I wonder if he'll do a deep dive on his YouTube channel (Dave Plummer, the guy who created windows task manager)

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 0 points 23 hours ago

I don’t think that’s the point.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 1 points 23 hours ago

I think they should be more concerned that they’re smart plug is doing 2 GB per day

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago

If that’s a unifi interface, it’s historically been wildly inaccurate.