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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?

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We continue to yell. Tradition is important in my family.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have already trained them to not say anything personal within earshot of the home assistants.

Yikes. Prisoner in their own home?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

My wife and I do this, mostly because we're both often doing stuff in the house, but also want to send each other cat pictures, which don't demand an immediate response.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah me and my husbands messages are mostly memes and cat pictures.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Us too. Inappropriate memes that make us laugh. Avoids the "can I see" from the kids.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They need to fix the volume for broadcasts.

They have a lot of long-standing bugs but it seems like Google Assistant isn't really being prioritised by Google at the moment. They're actually removing a bunch of features: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/google-assistant-will-lose-these-17-features-in-the-next-few-weeks/

Broadcasts via Google's API also fail if the network has IPv6 enabled. That's been broken for years and I doubt it'll ever be fixed.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah my experience was with Amazon products and unless You've got the biggest speaker models you can't even hear them over the TV.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Bring TP to guest bathroom please!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

My girfriend will text me when I am doing something noisy and she doesn't want to get out of bed.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh my god you are so right.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Only when there's a cat sleeping on someone's lap

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the correct answer.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

if you've got stairs and some shitty acoustics, yeah definitely

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes. Yes. And yes.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Technically not texting, but we have a Home Discord group chat.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We do this, too. Really convenient.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What is that?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We have a Signal group chat, works really well for all kinds of things. Like "Dinner is ready" or "is anybody home?"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's awesome! So much more flexible than group text or whatever.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I do, and he reads them days later and apologises.

Now that he is overseas on a business trip he reads them all immediately, but apparently in-house is not an option.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That’s actually kinda adorable.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My kid prefers to be texted for dinner. Knocking is iffy because of the ear buds.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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!

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I use Google Home Assistant to broadcast messages, e.g. "dinner's ready"

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If they're in the same room, obviously I'll just speak to them. If they're in the next room over and the door is open, I'll still speak, just louder. But if they're two rooms away or upstairs, I'll text.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've never done it in my own home, but I had a coworker I'd text with even though his desk was an arms length away from mine. Mostly because it could be hard to tell when either of us was on or about to make a call.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been in large groups and texted with the person I was sitting next to.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All the time. Usually because I am working from home and my husband has the dog snoring in his lap and doesn't want to disturb him. Or I'm piled into bed with the dogs and don't want to create a stir by getting up. Dogs govern a lot of my time lol.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on the size of the home I suppose. Tiny bungalow? Yeah, a little weird. Three-story? Not weird at all IMO.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All the time

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What’s it like living in a giant mansion where you can’t hear each other everywhere?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Generally announcing on the Alexa’s.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I sometimes do it with people in the same room the lolz 👌

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