You Can Tell Amazon’s Latest Gadget To Shut The Fuck Up


Video: Swearing is never not funny, and that’s doubly true when it comes to swearing at helpless pieces of technology. Amazon’s latest gadget, the Echo speaker, is programmed to mute when you tell it to shut the fuck up.

A Redditor figured this out presumably by swearing at his gadgets non-stop until one of them responded. Normally you just tell Echo to “be quiet”, but when it’s playing some obnoxious music, you want to stop that shit quick.


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