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Instead of the old, "Here's a sample of...," announcement now she just announces the song title and artist going into a sample. So it's not always obvious that it even is a sample that she's playing.

The first thing I thought was that we might have had Brief Mode rolled out to us, but I still don't see a setting for it anywhere. Is this happening to anyone else? If this is a real change, it seriously sucks. Instead of giving us a way to disable song samples entirely, they decide to make samples even more annoying?

Is our new mod clearing out an overactive spam filter or is Reddit freaking out? Several pages worth of archived posts from months or years ago have just hit r/Hammocks/new.

I'm finally getting around to setting up 529 accounts for our two boys, and all of the "conventional wisdom" I've read recommends that if your state allows a tax deduction for 529 contributions it's generally best to use that. Maryland does allow married couples to deduct up to $5000 per beneficiary, meaning we'd be eligible for a $10K deduction per year. Based on that we've been planning on starting one account with $35K and the other with $25K and adding $5000 per year to each after that. (Well, technically half those amounts in accounts owned by each of us, since we'd each have to open separate accounts for both boys to take the deductions.)

The thing is that when I start crunching the n

When we first got our Echo I was amazed at how good of a job it did avoiding waking up for things that just sounded similar to "Alexa," but it seems like in the last couple of weeks it's waking up for all manner of things.

Just this afternoon it's woken up at least four times while I've been in the kitchen, and going into the app and playing back what it's hearing I can't even figure out what it's triggering on for a couple of them. It's gotten bad enough that I'm wondering if they pushed out looser patterns for the wake words and they've just gone too far.