Does anyone else text someone else in your own home if they are in another room? Am I just too lazy to go talk to them? Are you like me?
In the olden days we would just scream at the top of our lungs to talk to people in other rooms. I feel like texting captures the lazy spirit without the chaos.
I’m trying to train the rest of our household to use our voice assistant intercom feature.
One of the kids hates that the intercom interrupts whatever she is doing, as far as she is concerned, she ignores everyone else and uses her noise-cancelling earbuds for a reason.
Before anyone asks, I have already trained them to not say anything personal within earshot of the home assistants.
I have already trained them to not say anything personal within earshot of the home assistants.
Yikes. Prisoner in their own home?
It’s a big reason I don’t want those things I’m my home. I know our phones are already doing it, but I don’t have to allow additional snooping mechanisms.
Exactly right. There’s a bit of evidence that something like an Amazon device is worse about it than phones are too. I’m too lazy to go look it up but I’m pretty sure Amazon is always recording and storing human voices, or at least was at one time.
Bring TP to guest bathroom please!
I’m pretty sure everyone is like someone out there. Except maybe that guy from that other post today who like, decapitated his father and put it on YouTube. I don’t know if there’s anybody like that guy.
Oh my god you are so right.
My kid prefers to be texted for dinner. Knocking is iffy because of the ear buds.
As posted above, same here. We use the Intercom feature on a HomePod to call her down. She hates it because the whole point of AirPods Pro is so she can ignore everyone!
Technically not texting, but we have a Home Discord group chat.
We do this, too. Really convenient.
We have a Signal group chat, works really well for all kinds of things. Like “Dinner is ready” or “is anybody home?”
What is that?
That’s awesome! So much more flexible than group text or whatever.
I do, but it’s because my wife works from home and spends three quarters of the day with the chick cave door closed doing teams meetings. Generally my msgs will be “want brunch/coffee/pastries?” etc.
Yes. Yes. And yes.
Only when there’s a cat sleeping on someone’s lap
This is the correct answer.
If we’re not in the same room, we use an encrypted messenger. We do DMs and have a group chat.
If we’re in the same room but don’t want the kids to hear, we’ll message too. If you ask out loud if we should get pizza, a no would prompt a mutiny.
We tried to use assistant broadcast, but it fails everytime someone turns the volume down on one. They need to fix the volume for broadcasts.
Generally announcing on the Alexa’s.
Depends on the size of the home I suppose. Tiny bungalow? Yeah, a little weird. Three-story? Not weird at all IMO.
What’s it like living in a giant mansion where you can’t hear each other everywhere?
Nah I do this in my tiny ass railroad style apartment because sound can’t carry past one room
More like going deaf, old, and getting harder to hear in the same room even much less the same house! Texting is easier sometimes but maybe I am lazy too. Especially if someone is outside in the yard.
I often send people pictures or articles on whatsapp while I’m talking to them, it’s just easier than going over to show them my phone. I definitely text if someone is out of speaking distance if it’s not urgent, stuff like “do you want X for dinner?”, that way they can get to it when it’s convenient.
This kinda behavior irritates the hell outta me, but I’ve been told that’s unreasonable for larger homes, more sensible for smaller homes.
I think if it would take you less than sixty seconds to walk to me and talk to me, you should just do it.
takes me less then 20 sec to write to you
All the damn time. If I’m I. The same room and we’re both awake, I speak, but if she’s asleep or I’m working and can’t escape from a vid meeting…. Signal it is.
For various reasons, my memory isn’t worth a damn, so there’s an added benefit of “yes, I told my wife that important thing” in the history
We live on one floor, with a bedroom, an office, a living room, and a kitchen. It’s definitely not that I’m too lazy to take the ten or twelve steps across the house lol
