Newer door locks have a phone app so you just have then holler at the camera when they arrive and you hit the button on your phone and the door unlocks for them. Actually, when I grew up, way out in the country, nobody even locked their doors. I'd go over to the neighbors and just walk in and feed the fish and change which lights were on in the house so it looked like somebody was home!
On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > In the olden days, when we went away on vacation or for the winter, we > left a key with a neighbor. Now everyone assumes they have their smart > home devices, their cameras, their robot lawnmowers and snowblowers and > vacuum cleaners and pet feeders. But what happens if there’s a storm or > power outage and maybe someone just needs to power cycle the modem or > router? Or reset a circuit breaker or GFCI? Without Internet, all those > smart devices are offline. > > > > Seems like we need a service that you pay monthly and give them a key, and > if necessary they will send a human out to your house. Actually so many > people have a door lock where you just punch in a combination, you might > not have to give them a key. > > > > This seems to go with rent-a-human type services to close the door on > Waymo robotaxis, or help your food delivery robot cross a street. > > > > I’m old enough to remember when you’d pay a neighbor kid to take in your > newspapers, mow your lawn, feed your fish. But of course there are no > newspapers any more. And nobody pays kids to mow lawns any more. Do most > kids never have a part time job until they graduate from high school (or > college)? That seems like an abrupt transition. Especially if all the > jobs are remote now. Who is your mentor, ChatGPT? > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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