<story><title>Username cannot contain &apos;clyde&apos;</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/ywjcep/cant_use_my_name/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>causi</author><text>At least in the naming, sure. Everything else, not so much. I had to switch my whole house over to Echos because you can&amp;#x27;t change the wake word on Google Home. Every time I said, say, &amp;quot;Hey Google, turn the bedroom lamp off&amp;quot;, the Home in the bedroom would say ok and turn the lamp off, both phones in the room would activate and complain that they didn&amp;#x27;t have a device named lamp listed, and every &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; Home in the house would start talking about how it couldn&amp;#x27;t hear me clearly. Then you yell &amp;quot;Hey Google, shut the fuck up!&amp;quot; and the blasted things start whining about how they &amp;quot;have feelings too&amp;quot; and I shouldn&amp;#x27;t be so rude. Few technological problems have made my fingers ache more for a sledgehammer.</text></item><item><author>boxed</author><text>Written like that Google suddenly looks like geniuses.</text></item><item><author>Thorrez</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Amazon: Alexa
    Microsoft: Cortana
    Apple: Siri
    Discord: Clyde
    Google: Google
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Disclosure, I work at Google.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This is a good case for why system bots&amp;#x2F;messages&amp;#x2F;etc. shouldn&amp;#x27;t be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead &amp;quot;Username cannot contain &amp;#x27;discord&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;d be more obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>The developers of these things need to stop treating people swearing at them as a time to lecture them and instead realize that if someone is swearing at it then they’re probably not satisfied with how it’s functioning in the attempts before that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Username cannot contain &apos;clyde&apos;</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/ywjcep/cant_use_my_name/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>causi</author><text>At least in the naming, sure. Everything else, not so much. I had to switch my whole house over to Echos because you can&amp;#x27;t change the wake word on Google Home. Every time I said, say, &amp;quot;Hey Google, turn the bedroom lamp off&amp;quot;, the Home in the bedroom would say ok and turn the lamp off, both phones in the room would activate and complain that they didn&amp;#x27;t have a device named lamp listed, and every &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; Home in the house would start talking about how it couldn&amp;#x27;t hear me clearly. Then you yell &amp;quot;Hey Google, shut the fuck up!&amp;quot; and the blasted things start whining about how they &amp;quot;have feelings too&amp;quot; and I shouldn&amp;#x27;t be so rude. Few technological problems have made my fingers ache more for a sledgehammer.</text></item><item><author>boxed</author><text>Written like that Google suddenly looks like geniuses.</text></item><item><author>Thorrez</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Amazon: Alexa
    Microsoft: Cortana
    Apple: Siri
    Discord: Clyde
    Google: Google
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Disclosure, I work at Google.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This is a good case for why system bots&amp;#x2F;messages&amp;#x2F;etc. shouldn&amp;#x27;t be given regular names (and perhaps distinguished through other means too); if the error was instead &amp;quot;Username cannot contain &amp;#x27;discord&amp;#x27;&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;d be more obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdsnape</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s interesting, I did some digging into Apple device communication and it turns out they have a protocol called CompanionLink that handles this exact circumstance - devices can communicate securely with each other and decide who is going to handle the Siri activation - HomePod&amp;#x27;s seem to get preference, then phones then laptops. I&amp;#x27;m surprised Google hasn&amp;#x27;t done something similar.</text></comment>