I use the voice activated services a lot. It helps turn off the lights in the house while I am watching my kid so I don’t have to drag her up and down the stairs. It helps maintain lots of timers, and grocery lists, and play music when I’ve got my hands full with my kids. I’ve set up some things to only work when I say “please” and make sure I say thank you to the device every time it does something, to teach manners.

My life is pretty pedestrian and my indulgences are simple. I frankly wouldn’t really mind a 24/7 video feed of my house excluding my bedroom and bathroom broadcast publicly.