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?
Yep
Technically not texting, but we have a Home Discord group chat.
We do this, too. Really convenient.
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.
We continue to yell. Tradition is important in my family.
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.
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!
If she hates it then maybe stop?
But then she would miss out on dinner, family movie night and other social interactions!
All the time
Only when there’s a cat sleeping on someone’s lap
This is the correct answer.
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.
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.
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.
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
Yeah but that’s so lazy. Have a modicum of respect to speak to me face to face. There’s so much lost in communication when you lose facial expressions and intonation.
Plus, it’s not like it’s hard to just walk over, you’re not losing a great deal of time or energy.
Excellent word choice, I hear “modicum” so rarely.
Little things like this matter. I would work from home doing something that needs my focus and get a sms that the courier is close. I need my focus to finish tasks fast so I will send a message to someone who should be more available.
It is not lazy or lacking respect. Sometimes it is more efficient and confortable for anyone involved.
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.
Yeah me and my husbands messages are mostly memes and cat pictures.
Us too. Inappropriate memes that make us laugh. Avoids the “can I see” from the kids.
My girfriend will text me when I am doing something noisy and she doesn’t want to get out of bed.
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.
I’ve been in large groups and texted with the person I was sitting next to.
I use Google Home Assistant to broadcast messages, e.g. “dinner’s ready”
I yell.
if you’ve got stairs and some shitty acoustics, yeah definitely
