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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by runetech »

mxuribe wrote: post #205

Separate of the product itself...I have to compliment whoever designed the landing page! I'm not a UX/UI/page design expert, but here is what i experience: * the page loads quick - without overlays, distractions, etc. the page gets to the point, and fast * immediately i see a description of what the product is...this might sound funny, but tons of product sites lack this most basic thing! * In addition, the very brie…

Agree completely - so much I just had to echo your observations ;-)

I love the aesthetics and simplicity at display here. Very functional and just the right amount of information. Kudos to the Busy Status Bar team from here as well!!

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by bloopernova »

diggan wrote: post #228
roland35 wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And... How do we know the key base profile is correct?

Here is how Keybase works: https://book.keybase.io/docs/server Then take a look at the HN profile, which leads you to the Keybase profile.

I really wish keybase had taken off. I should have realized it was going to fail once they started adding the cryptocurrency wallet.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by egeozcan »

m4r71n wrote: post #191
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 looks great! I've considered building a simple device with an LED matrix that looks similar to this, but could never figure out what gives the LEDs the muted look. All of the devices mentioned here (Tidbyt Gen2, Lamarca, Ulanzi, even the busy.bar) have it. Is the back-pannel just an LED matrix with a custom acrylic in front of it? How do they ensure the light from individual LEDs doesn't bleed into its neighbor?

> custom acrylic

While I'm not an expert, my own experimentation suggests this is correct

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by stevage »

mxuribe wrote: post #205

Separate of the product itself...I have to compliment whoever designed the landing page! I'm not a UX/UI/page design expert, but here is what i experience: * the page loads quick - without overlays, distractions, etc. the page gets to the point, and fast * immediately i see a description of what the product is...this might sound funny, but tons of product sites lack this most basic thing! * In addition, the very brie…

One thing missing though is the why. It took me a while to realise this is intended for people in open plan offices to communicate when they are disturbable.

Still it's interesting to me as a WFH person to potentially better delineate for myself focus mode.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by gorgoiler »

VoxPelli wrote: post #93

Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device? It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/ , neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram? They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before

Flipper Zero’s UK jobs page is currently advertising for a designer to work on the Busy Bar:

https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2

…linked at the bottom of https://flipperzero.one/

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by egeozcan »

kstrauser wrote: post #121
frereubu wrote: post #51

This reminds me of my first job in London looking after the network of a recruitment agency. The consultants got headsets for the first time and one got so annoyed about being interrupted when on a call - because you couldn't tell when people were wearing headsets the whole time - that she taped a big bit of card to the top of her headset saying "ON A CALL" that she could flip up and down depending on whether she was…

I had a coworker who felt free to interrupt me at any time. Even if I were frowning and leaning in to read some code word for word, he’d stop by to talk about nothing. I started wearing headphones when I was in concentration mode and that didn’t help. Then I wrote “DO NOT DISTURB” on a post-it note, stuck it to my headphones, and dug in for some thought-intensive hacking. He came to my desk, pulled the note off the h…

There's always that person. The only solution is renting your own office (not even home office unless one lives alone).

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by bongodongobob »

tristor wrote: post #220
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can remember people using various USB "busy lights" since way back in the Skype for Business days. And one of our super old offices has an 80s style wired green/yellow/red light indicator outside of the door, that presumably used to connect to a switch on the desk.

> And one of our super old offices has an 80s style wired green/yellow/red light indicator outside of the door, that presumably used to connect to a switch on the desk. These light trees used to be (and probably still are in some places) used for the purpose of incident management when in operations centers like NOCs or similar. It is tied to internal status and incident management systems.

That may be but they originated in manufacturing, long before NOCs were a thing.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by refulgentis »

ndndjdjdn wrote: post #203
refulgentis wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You have not said what the market is. Hmm, you sure? I checked OP, it says "marketed for video conferencing" > Recording studios have a solution. Okay. > And probably don't use pomedero. *pomodoro > And the reason for the indicator I assume is to stop people barging in and stop people saying silly stuff thinking their off air so it needs to be inside and outside the room. Okay. > So who is this device for again? Vi…

For context, we are replying to a comment putting that marketing into question. Therefore the "RTFA" card is not in your deck to play. (I say with a tongue in cheek tone: no flamewar intended!) In particular GP said: > For colleagues, after the first month or so, everyone will pretty much find the best way to approach others. If you still need a device for that, then there’s a problem in communication that you need a…

Reductio ad absurdum: If its for recording studios, fine. If not, get off my lawn, its just reinventing having a conversation.

It's telling that both obstinate refusals to not understand what its for end up on unrelated stories about bosses. Let's call it PHB derangement syndrome.

It never seemed likely it was that confusing, it's pretty hard to have been alive from 2020-2024 and claim that there's never any reason for anyone to know anyone else is on a video call. I guess I'm lucky I can take out my Monday scaries via pointing out the obvious, it'd suck to be on the other side and have to pretend I'm stupid.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by iamjackg »

kristofferR wrote: post #225
mxuribe wrote: post #205

Separate of the product itself...I have to compliment whoever designed the landing page! I'm not a UX/UI/page design expert, but here is what i experience: * the page loads quick - without overlays, distractions, etc. the page gets to the point, and fast * immediately i see a description of what the product is...this might sound funny, but tons of product sites lack this most basic thing! * In addition, the very brie…

This site is extremely broken by default, completely unreadable: https://imgur.com/a/9g1dGxp (default 100% zoom level) It is totally defective in 100% zoom, I need to manually zoom to 90% to make it be usable/as designed. It seems to activate cell phone mode for laptop screens. Edit: I don't get why people are downvoting this (-4 and counting). I enter the site and it is broken, until I change to a non-default zoom l…

The downvotes are probably because your comment was unnecessarily abrasive, saying things like "unreadable" and "abhorrent."

The feedback is valuable, but the way it's expressed leaves something to be desired.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by echoangle »

graypegg wrote: post #164
echoangle wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It definitely looks to be made of a metal. To be fair, I'm just basing that off the texture and specular highlights in the photos. It's pretty similar looking to the iMac's case in one of their photos.

I would actually bet it’s plastic, having a hollow tube-like structure made from metal would be very wasteful because you would have to mill out the entire core (unless it’s cast metal?). Also, the texture looks much coarser than the iMac, there are large „bumps“ on the surface. If it’s really a milled aluminum case, I would at least understand the price, but I would be very surprised. My bet would be a simple injection moulded ABS case.
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