• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If it’s random sampled no one would notice. “Oh my battery ran low today.” Tomorrow it’s fine.

    Google used to (probably still does) A/B test Play services that caused battery drain. You never knew if something was wrong or you were the unlucky chosen one out of 1000 that day.

    Bandwidth for voice is tiny. The amr-wb standard is 6.6 kbits/second with voice detection. So it’s only sending 6 kbits/ when it detects voice.

    Given that a single webpage today averages 2 megabytes, an additional 825 bytes of data each second could easily go unnoticed.

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      It’s insane people still believe voice takes up heaps of bandwidth.

      Even moreso, on device you could just speech to text, and send the text back home. That’s like… no data. Undetectable.

      Even WITH voice, like you said, fuckin tiny amounts of data for today’s tech.

      This is why I’ll never have “smart” anything in my house.