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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by refulgentis »

tamimio wrote: post #149

A bit dystopian turning people into a taxi-like system where you need an indicator to tell if they are vacant or not. Regardless, I'm struggling to know the audience here. Is it an employee in the office? If that’s the case, it won’t solve any problem because most of the disturbances happen from your boss either calling about something or asking you to join another useless meeting. Your boss won’t care about your sta…

After reading the page, it seems clear it is akin to a recording studio busy signal, well-trodden territory predating computers, and marketed for video conferencing. Neither without target audience, nor a sigil of the fall of interhuman cooperation and communication :)

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by hyperhopper »

euniceee3 wrote: post #18

Why is everyone complaining on the price tag? It is a product that someone made for profit just like everyone else here is trying to do. Did Hacker News turn into Daily Deals?

So because everyone wants to make profit, nobody can complain about any prices regardless of how insane they are? What kind of logic is that?

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by hyperhopper »

bradhe wrote: post #22
euniceee3 wrote: post #18

Why is everyone complaining on the price tag? It is a product that someone made for profit just like everyone else here is trying to do. Did Hacker News turn into Daily Deals?

It's honestly not even that expensive considering all the functionality you get and the tech included (which is something HN should understand)

The functionality is a small screen with a timer and a few API calls to set the timer for you sometimes. $189 for a timer is not a lot of functionality for more than 1% of the annual salary of a minimum wage worker. You can get a full android phone for that much which has 10000x the functionality.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by graypegg »

I'm a sucker for metal things with greebling. The price seems pretty fair for how niche this is; I totally expected Teenage Engineering prices. (Also in the field of greebled single use devices with knobs and the mass of a blunt-force-weapon) Will totally pick one up for the hardware's skookumosity and hackability poetential alone!

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by password4321 »

blutack wrote: post #91

If you're looking for something with an addressable LED matrix in a clock style form factor, the Ulanzi TC001 [0] for ~$50 is worth having a look at. Doesn't quite have the same aesthetic but inside it's just an ESP32 (flashed via the USB-C port) and there's various mature open source firmware replacements. I use awtrix[1] on mine and it's very easy to tie in HomeAssistant for doorbell notifications and that sort of…

This 16x32 RGB LED panel (6.75"x2.75", USB powered, Bluetooth programmable) was $15 for a while, now $26: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP5P7RY7

Programming it with your own code is still a mess, see "Panel Communication": https://github.com/auc0le/JT-Edit

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by echoangle »

graypegg wrote: post #158

I'm a sucker for metal things with greebling. The price seems pretty fair for how niche this is; I totally expected Teenage Engineering prices. (Also in the field of greebled single use devices with knobs and the mass of a blunt-force-weapon) Will totally pick one up for the hardware's skookumosity and hackability poetential alone!

Do you mean metal as in the material? Where do you see that?
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