Optimistic about AI or not, this is sad.

I'm a Copilot user. The most recent prompt that I gave to Copilot that Copilot provided a usable output for crashed this tool. No output was provided.

Thanks for testing.

Maybe try a simpler topic/wording. You don't need to enter a prompt - just a topic.

Or what was the prompt?

Very cool. Would love to see one for HP and similar brands.

Aside from privacy, why is this better than Whatsapp or a Facebook Group?

Great question! I'd say the biggest difference is the mindset while using it:

1. This isn’t an alternative to messaging apps. Messaging is for active conversations; social networks are for passive catching up.

2. Facebook Groups come with Facebook distractions. Even if you try feed blockers (which are tough even if not impossible on mobile), a single notification can pull you back into the engagement loop. This, on the other hand, is intentionally boring—it does just one job and nothing more.

It’s like having a home-cooked meal vs. eating at a bar. A bar has "everything" a meal at home does-and more-but the atmosphere pulls you in, keeps you there, and changes the experience entirely. Now I might do want to have a meal at a bar once a week for guilty pleasure, but not every night :-)

I'd be interested to see the percentage of users who have the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" feature enabled. My guess is .001% or less

Since only a minority of users want any modicum of privacy, guess it makes sense to remove the option for everybody.

Also ignoring the dark patterns in which big tech will make it annoying/obfuscated/unknown that better privacy options are available.

It isn't an option for older devices anyway. The hardware for on-device processing was only in some recent models.

I think it's likely that they looked at the numbers and realized they were spending a lot of money putting NPUs on devices and maintaining separate voice parsing models for a very small minority of users.

It's useful to control local Zigbee devices without depending on internet.

Echo Plus is a Zigbee hub with US-origin firmware.