I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset
33 points
9 days ago
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voidUpdate
41 minutes ago
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I enjoy how this article shows the issues with both image generation models and language models
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egorfine
32 minutes ago
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I like this guy's optimism of letting AI create a USB sound card out of a microcontroller from scratch.
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ipython
59 minutes ago
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I enjoyed the llm generated rotary phone image which had no “3” position but two “8”’s
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WesolyKubeczek
1 hour ago
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If you use such a thing on a regular kind of meeting that happens over zoom or similar, your arm will atrophy and fall off from having to hold that thing for the duration.

The only remedy I see is to give everyone such a contraption and make it mandatory.

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jon-wood
14 minutes ago
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Back in the day when phones of this style were the only ones available we learned to hold the handset between our shoulder and our ear, leaving both hands free for other things.
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phantasmish
29 minutes ago
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They make those shoulder-rest addons for phone handsets. Not too bad to use for extended periods with one of those, with both hands free.
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wffurr
57 minutes ago
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BoxOfRain
59 minutes ago
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This would be an excellent way to make sure the standup stays terse, we could even put lead weights in the handsets to further increase this virtue.
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pvtmert
1 hour ago
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love the hangup part. so, i can finally "rage quit" the meeting that discusses 99th revision of a doc where a comma should be added here or there.
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6c696e7578
1 hour ago
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pkill -9 -f '(chrome|firefox)' is my rage quit, it's like hanging up but hitting the keys on the keyboard as hard as you'd throw the phone down
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villgax
1 hour ago
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Someone please make a Moto Razr form factor and snap bluetooth device so I can keep my big and costly device in my bag and use it only when I actually need to.
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