Or you could have additional “access points” around your house that still just communicate with the voice assistant running on your computer on the same network. But no. It must be cloud. Your data must be harvested for the advertisers.

Wow. People “standing around” is not antisocial behavior. Gathering is social behavior! The petty bourgeois complainers and people who feel entitled to park anywhere and everywhere are the ones who are actually engaging in antisocial behavior.