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Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? by dgacmu on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @09:58PM (#20281221)
You must not have kids. They drastically increase the frequency with which one must contact a partner at random unexpected times. People mess up ringer settings all the time.

"the kid is vomiting and school needs us to come get them asap, which one of us is more available?" is not a life-threatening emergency, but it's a family emergency and needs attention. It also happens a lot. An awful lot more than your "unlikely to happen to most people in their lifetime" contrived scenario.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? by bjoli on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:45PM (#20289534)
Oh yes. My wife is the worst offender. The amount of times I have had to cancel important things to get a taxi to our kindergarten because she had our car (and thus the agreed upon responsibility to pick up the phone) can't be counted on 2 hands, and he has only been 2 years in kindergarten.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? by hunter2_ on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:32PM (#20286554)
True, it's a risk worth taking in that scenario.
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