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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 week ago

Amazon still uses them.

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

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

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago

I don’t think that’s the point.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week 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 week ago

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