How can I not waste an Alexa without feeding Amazon?

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How can I not waste an Alexa without feeding Amazon? - SLRPNK

A friend was dumping stuff prior to a move. I took all his electro gadgets just to prevent it becoming e-waste. In the pile of stuff is an Amazon Alexa. Fuck #Amazon. I boycott Amazon and also have principled objections to their snooping, business practices, etc. My choices seem to be: * trash the Alexa * donate the Alexa to charity These are both lousy choices. Donating it as-is would ultimately put it in someone’s house which then feeds Amazon. Is there another option? I did a quick search and see no FOSS to replace whatever garbage Amazon has on it. It could be attached to the LAN with an egress firewall that blocks cloud access, but I suppose then it is useless, correct?

somehow amazon has managed to make fire products that no one seems to be able to jailbreak or such. I mean there is tons out there so its not like its not a good target.
Last I checked people were into both their tablets and tv sticks. “Jailbreak” an alexa and you end up with a shitty wireless speaker, not a lot of incentive there
New fire tablets are ostensibly impossible to remove the OS from