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An Amazon Echo owner has taken to social media to complain about their smart speakers, saying that the hardware is using too much data even when it's mostly unused. Dave W. Plummer, who helped develop the Windows Task Manager and ported Space Cadet Pinball to Windows, posted on X saying that his two Amazon Echo Show devices, which he said he "never" uses, exceeded 4 GB of data usage in 24 hours.

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[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Based on some of the gray beards I know; doing something cool with technology 30+ years ago doesn’t necessarily translate to continued tech literacy.

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