There’s little debate that Amazon’s Alexa ecosystem makes it easy to add voice control to your smart home, but not everyone is thrilled with how it works. The fact that all of your comm…
  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    The original Echo is running on a 2.6.x series Linux kernel, which even for a device released in 2014, is painfully outdated.

    Well, apparently 2.6.32 was supported until 2016, but that was because Debian and Ubuntu used that particular version in LTS releases.

    The first 3.x version was already released in 2011, so yeah, they probably used 3 year old hardware.