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one comment to promote your product is enough. we don't need 26 (yes i counted)
Up to 47 now. Didn't notice it was all one guy until you posted this.
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> the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar as someone who leaves themselves open to hear out others with their "hey do you have a second to check this out" ideas y'all are missing out
True, and if someone tries to avoid communication in whatever way I highly doubt they actually work on meaningful tasks...
Or we work on meaningful tasks that require extended periods of focus and concentration.
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#403Is 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
Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret. Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.
A version of this that would be useful for WFH or private offices is an 'on air' device that you could mount outside your office door, which means it's not connected to your computer and could potentially run on a battery for a week+ or run on usb power directly.
People want to come in sometimes to access a closet, but they don't know if your in a meeting, so it would also need to detect if your in a meeting, and the microphone being on or off is not enough because people often mute themselves. Calendar access is also not enough because sometimes you start a meeting without a calendar thingy, and also knowing if your 'on air' with an open door can tell them if they have to be worried if they could be on camera if they walk by the door.
It could be a very simple LED, it just needs a good agent on your desktop. Also a 'yellow light' for an upcoming meeting in a couple minutes (so this is where calendar access is useful) or an orange light for camera & microphone off.
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Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret. Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.
A version of this that would be useful for WFH or private offices is an 'on air' device that you could mount outside your office door, which means it's not connected to your computer and could potentially run on a battery for a week+ or run on usb power directly. People want to come in sometimes to access a closet, but they don't know if your in a meeting, so it would also need to detect if your in a meeting, and the…
It seems like that's already supported considering there's mobile apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flipperdev...
They're referenced on the second picture on the site, with the backside of the device that shows you how to control it.
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#405A 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…
Yes, it's so horrible, just like the on air signs in audio recording rooms from the 1920s are very dystopian, so bad. It's not like everyone is working from home now.
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#406If the big display is supposed to face away from you towards visitors, why are the controls oriented for them too. Surely you want to control the device, not your visitors?
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#407This 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…
... or you could have communicated your boundaries & expectations first thing and explicitly instead of doing this weird song and dance and complain on hacker news about it afterwards?
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#408First the Nintendo alarm clock and now a sign that says "busy" - But it's hackable! You nerds will buy anything
On the one hand I love single-focus nicely designed hardware. On the other hand I have a https://getfocustimer.com/ gathering dust, because a timer is just easier to set from the computer + screen I am already looking at...
The only product in this category I still use on the regular is https://boomkat.com/products/buddha-machine-special-edition-... and its predecessors.
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> the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar as someone who leaves themselves open to hear out others with their "hey do you have a second to check this out" ideas y'all are missing out
True, and if someone tries to avoid communication in whatever way I highly doubt they actually work on meaningful tasks...
Oh come on. There are lots of tasks where not avoiding communication will set you back long time or even prevent you from finishing the task at all.
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> Eventually people will realize the light is busy when the person isn’t really busy Like the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar or set their Teams status to unavailable all day.
> the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar as someone who leaves themselves open to hear out others with their "hey do you have a second to check this out" ideas y'all are missing out
I have checked your busy / free calendar information and it seems you do nothing around here. We thank you for your service but it is no longer required at this organisation.