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.
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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.
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.
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.
So, it’s EOL but they’re still collecting as much data as possible, basically?
Bring TP to guest bathroom please!
My girfriend will text me when I am doing something noisy and she doesn’t want to get out of bed.
Only when there’s a cat sleeping on someone’s lap
This is the correct answer.
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.
if you’ve got stairs and some shitty acoustics, yeah definitely
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.
Technically not texting, but we have a Home Discord group chat.
We do this, too. Really convenient.
What is that?
That’s awesome! So much more flexible than group text or whatever.
Yes. Yes. And yes.
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!
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.
That’s actually kinda adorable.
I use Google Home Assistant to broadcast messages, e.g. “dinner’s ready”
I yell.
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.
