Does this mean that the benefits of breathing exercises or pranayam (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama) and meditation have been bemchmarked or quantified by this research?
i know this is HN but its 2025 and i find it hard to believe anybody who was not in a coma for the last decades would need concrete proof that for-profit corporations in the business of personals data have deals with government agencies for surveillance.
If 'Alexa, open my curtains' already works for you, then creating a routine containing the same command to be triggered daily at the needed time should solve your problem.
But I cannot create a routine or change its time with my voice.
I can say "Alexa, set my alarm tomorrow at 7 in the morning". I wish I could say "Alexa, open my curtains at 6:45 in the morning tomorroe" instead of having to go to my cellphone and use the clunky Alexa app.
It just seems like a wasted opportunity for a routine. I'm sure a lot more things would be available if Amazon let developers use more features.
Seems like it'd get unwieldy fast. Would need an efficient interface for listing and editing registered tasks, or you might get stuck with a couple of hundred tasks of the type 'Alexa, say fart fart fart at three/four/five in the morning' if a kid ever where to pass through the house.
We're not asking to construct a complex schedule via voice command, the app is sufficient for that. Sometimes you just want your curtains opened at 6:45 tomorrow because something is happening and you just thought of it. That's would actually be convenient.
