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So yeah, I find the same thing, that it's not really great, you know, at what it does anymore, you know, as far as like asking it things. Now, in regards to having to control a kettle, I used to have it do exactly that. All you gotta do to get it to control your kettle. All you gotta do to get it to control your kettle is to get a smart switch, or a smart plug, and plug your kettle into that. And then in the app for the switch, name it Kettle. And then in your Google, you just program a routine. So you set up a trigger word, like you said, Boil a Kettle. So if I said, hey, G-word, Boil a Kettle, it wouldn't know what that means to turn on the switch. You always just gotta make sure you got water in the kettle, because if not, you'll burn the freaking element out of it. But as long as you've got water in there, it's good to go. Because I used to drink coffee every single morning, and I'd want it, you know, already hot when I woke up. So my alarm was for, let's say, 845. My kettle would come on at like 840 or 838, and then I would have it boil for like five minutes, and then switch itself off. And then when I got up, the water would be boiling hot. So the whole routine for Boil a Kettle would be turn on the kettle at, you know, whatever time, and then turn it off at whatever time. But then I could use this phrase, Boil a Kettle. So it would automate every single morning, Monday to Friday, and then when I got up, I'd have boiling hot water. So it's pretty simple to do that stuff. Now when it comes to a microwave or a stove, you'd need to have integrations into that appliance that allowed for Google integration. My projector, for instance, it's not smart, but it does have the ability to turn on automatically when you plug it in. So that means you can use it with a smart switch. So when I got my projector right now plugged into one of those smart outlets that I was talking about, so when I say either, Hey G Word TV time or Hey G Word engage, what it will do is it will turn on my projector, it will turn on the home theater amp, and it will switch to the input for the Chromecast. So it fires right up and it's right in TV mode. Bloody hell. I'm getting messages on my wrist here. I'll look at these guys in a little while. So yeah, I've got routine set up for certain things. I'm going to go ahead and turn on my projector.