Why does nobody talk about how a $12 clock radio from 1994 beats my $200 smart speaker for waking up

Ben Lopez · 2026-10-07T17:40:02.767318+00:00

My coworker Dale said he tossed his old GE alarm clock in a dumpster behind the Sacramento office 6 months ago and bought a fancy speaker that now needs wifi and an app just to buzz at 6am, and I dug my grandma's dusty clock radio out of the garage the same night, plugged it in, and it has woken me up every single morning since without one update or login screen, so tell me why we all agreed to make waking up harder.

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