Asklemmy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Yes. Yes. And yes.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

All the time

Generally announcing on the Alexa’s.

I often send people pictures or articles on whatsapp while I'm talking to them, it's just easier than going over to show them my phone. I definitely text if someone is out of speaking distance if it's not urgent, stuff like "do you want X for dinner?", that way they can get to it when it's convenient.

I have Philips hue lights throughout the house. My son is green, my daughter is purple and red is both. Sometimes I'm lazy and just turn the lights on and off instead of changing the color.

When my brother and I lived together, we definitely texted each other, either via text or Discord. When we only lived in a 2bdr apartment. If we were in each of our rooms, with the doors open, we could easily just talk really loudly if we wanted to. But we typically had headsets on.

If I'm visiting my family, if there's something I want to show them on the computer, I'll often just drop it into our family Discord. Easier that way.