I’m old enough to remember the first iteration of this home control trend: multi-room wired speakers. I can’t count the times when I was in high school and had

I’m old enough to remember the first iteration of this home control trend: multi-room wired speakers. I can’t count the times when I was in high school and had to let some dad demo their multiple speaker setup. It never worked all that well, volume levels were off, and there was often an echo of music coming from some empty room. I’m reminded of this every time someone calls out to their home assistant in my presence to do something like change the music on their tinny bluetooth speaker that’s already being controlled from their phone, which is sitting in plain sight. There’s an element of performance in it. Look at how far I’ve come, etc. I don’t care for it but it’s a general, atavistic trait we probably share as humans to one degree or another.