By the sounds of it their entire video team left. So not half of the channel gone, but all of it...
TechLich
joined 1 year ago
It's an idiom that comes from shooting something in the sky (like a bird or a plane) so that it falls down to the ground. Usually with a gun or a bow or similar weapon. "He shot down that plane!"
To shoot down an idea is like to discredit it. To show that it is not true (by metaphorically blasting the idea out of the sky and making it crash into the earth).
Interesting. I remember there being fewer ads but the ones that did exist were worse. Bright colours, flashing, blink tags, 3-frame epilepsy inducing animated gifs... "You are the 10000th visitor!" Some in the mid to late 90s would pop-up new windows or even start autoplaying sound...
Do you get that kind of delay when you talk to the assistant on your phone or through a browser? It might be whisper taking a while to process it?
What is your home assistant running on?
Also, what's the range/mic/audio quality like on those atom echos? I'm thinking of looking into something like that now that a decent voice assistant is a possibility.