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Amazon is working on a new paid subscription plan for its Alexa voice assistant
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Don't throw it out... without first looking if you can flash a different firmware or somehow else reuse the hardware.
Unfortunately echo dots are very hard to repurpose. I have tried.
I see. There is some info from 2017 that looks promising, but seems like nobody had the proper incentive to fully root them... except maybe some Russian actors. Let's hope some "right to repair" gets to unlock them for legitimate owners too.
That would be great. It's pretty amazing hardware. It was very heavily subsidized, I paid 20 bucks for them IIRC. I'm sure the BOM (bill of materials) alone would have been higher than that.