To be fair the definition of censorship does not include a newspaper removing some article from their archives on their own accord.
My assumption is that the default boot device was wrong and they needed to go to the bios to switch it but would never save the correct order so they had to do it every time.
I’m using https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ together with HomeAssistant which does what you describe. It combines a lot of different things into one nice UI, one of the things is listening to a wake word with help of one of those:
With some of them you can even train it to use your own wake word.