Moving into the house - furniture, moving, setting up

New Year's Eve at friends' place, I discovered something that I somehow find cool, but also questionable. They now have a box like this.

See below:
"Alexa, I would like a dollhouse"

See under: "Alexa, I want a dollhouse"

Amusing to read. Unfortunately today's truth. I would have long ago sent Alexa to hell. I would like to know how many market researches this name with three! syllables and the disharmonious sound has emerged from.

have also invested in speakers these days, but with us it still works with the push of a button or app.

What did you get? (Finally managed to get the second Raumfeld to work somewhat ...).

There are apparently also "online" speakers whose microphone can be turned off. I just forgot which ones, I read about them this morning on faz.de. But I wouldn’t have that microphone stuff in the house, neither Google nor Amazon ...

What did you take? ...

We spontaneously decided on Bose at MM.
Sonos was once again, despite googling, completely confused in the store: "do you need that for it or can you also listen with just one speaker without a device"
Besides, the white ones from S. were sold out

...but first one for testing, the second will be bought when there are discounts [emoji13]

Sonos now also comes with dear Alexa [emoji6] And I don't want to miss my 3 Echos anymore.

What do you actually think your smartphones do with their microphones all day? So if you're going with the tinfoil hat, then please think it through completely. (aber ja, Alexas hören und speichern mit, in den USA wurden die Daten schon von Gerichten verwertet)