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Texting in house (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 51 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] soviettaters@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] ____@infosec.pub 1 points 7 months ago

The local utility co tried to give me a free google thermostat. Nooooope.

Three decades ago, as a kid, the electric co-op put a device on our water heater that would limit energy to that specific device at times of high load. That was sensible, and had zero listening capabilities. It’s also as close as I want to get to (commercial) voice assistants.