Hey there hive-mind. I need some help today, and any insights you can provide would be appreciated. I'm looking for a technology that is essentially a bare-bones Amazon Alexa unit that meets the following criteria.

- Does not use the internet to 'call home' for anything

- Does not use my phone as the main physical unit

- Does have the ability to speak with a synthesized voice

- Does have the ability to set routines, reminders, alarms, and snooze

- Does have the ability to program what the synthesized voice says

- Does have volume control either on the unit or on the remote/app as applicable

- Does have basic calendar function, even if there's no screen interface

- Ideally has the ability to sync a few units across the house by wifi or Bluetooth

- Ideally has the ability to understand and execute verbal commands within reason IE "Every Tuesday at 6pm, remind me to take out the trash by saying 'The trash needs to go out tonight'"

- Ideally will let me call it whatever I want if voice activated (I always wanted to call my Alexa "Chuck")

- Ideally allows me to increase the speed at which the unit speaks.

- Ideally has a unit I can wear on my belt or keys, like a Tamagotchi secretary that reminds me to drink water.

- Ideally can be controlled or programmed from my phone or PC

Does this kind of thing exist?

Is this the kind of thing I can realistically have commissioned by someone if it doesn't already exist?

Are there better / other places to ask about this?

My limited knowledge tells me this should be relatively easy to do, but I don't know how most of this technology works beyond basic use, so I genuinely don't understand the scope of what I'm looking for. Please let me know if I'm asking for something akin to an adamantium helicopter with a unicorn-leather interior.

My two year old 43 inch Sceptre “Dumb tv” blew out over the weekend and I need to find another. (I’m not tech guy but one of the internal components gave out, no clue what though lol) Ideally I wanted another Sceptre tv but those things are like $400 now! I paid $125 for it two years ago. I really don’t want a smart tv but I’m out of luck in that front. Does anyone have any suggestions for a decent tv that’s not more than $200?

I saw this 50 inch onn 4K UHD Smart Tv for $178 which seems like a decent price. Reviews looked decent enough, and mostly I just use an HDMI cord to stream my laptop to it for tv and stuff, and use it occasionally for my Xbox so I don’t need anything wild.

Thought I’d try and find something bigger this time, why not lol. I got the insurance on my last tv so I’ll have that as a base amount.

I’d appreciate any advice or suggestions if people know of anything that might be better. Like I said I don’t want/need anything crazy but I have little experience with smart TVs.

Thanks for reading.

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