Someone gave us an Echo Dot a couple of years ago. It sits on the disused electronics section of the kitchen counter alongside my 5" Win98 tablet computer from before smartphones existed.

It is useful for one thing, though - if a factual question comes up during dinnertime conversation we can ask Alexa rather than pulling out a device. This doesn't happen a lot, and having dinner together and talking to each other probably makes us even more old-fashioned.

(One nice thing about being friends with a bunch of people just notable enough to have Wikipedia articles is that Alexa knows all of their birthdays, which is often what we end up asking.)