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?

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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    8 months 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.

    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      8 months 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.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

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

        Yikes. Prisoner in their own home?

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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          8 months 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.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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            8 months 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.

  • T0RB1T@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

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

  • RovingFox@infosec.pub
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    8 months ago

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

    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      8 months 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!

  • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months 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.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months 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.

    • ____@infosec.pub
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      8 months ago

      When you could express the same sentiment in a few keystrokes? Nah, I’ll text lol

  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    8 months 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.

  • Dhrystone@infosec.pub
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    8 months 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.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months 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.