• Saneless@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      Google assistant has gotten worse and worse but “Hey Google, how many tablespoons are in x” is pretty helpful

      • Fonzie!
        1·
        11 months ago

        Or use DuckDuckGo

        Or use the terminal app qalc, which converts and calculates with everything!

        • Saneless@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          Does that plug into assistant speakers?

          I’m not a massive fan of it but hands free cooking questions are nice. I use DDG for my browser search

          • Fonzie!
            1·
            11 months ago

            I’m sure some open hardware hacker could get DuckDuckGo or qalc to work through their home-soldered voice-controlled assistant.

            But other than that, no. For what it’s worth, I spend 2 to 3 seconds for each conversion through the terminal when preparing a recipe, or about 15 seconds unlocking my phone and looking it up in DDG on the spot