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I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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Re: I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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Some of those old phones are nicely slammable.

What's even more bulletproof are vintage street payphones.

Nothing keeps a daily standup call on track like a payphone atmosphere of being on the run. ("Quick, what's sprint status and blockers?! We've got 60 seconds before they complete the trace!")

Add an accelerometer, and you can detect when the handset is hanging from the armored payphone cable, because they dropped it as they ran away. Trigger dial tone sound, to mark end of meeting.

A variation on this theme is using a "burner" flip phone for meetings, so that you can end each one by snapping the phone in half, and stomping the pieces on the ground. Which is cathartic, but less environmentally sustainable.

Re: I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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I enjoy how this article shows the issues with both image generation models and language models

> “Rest assured, though, the image is almost exactly what the phone looks like, except with a bit more 8 and a bit less 3.” :)

Seeing images like that are always a good reminder that LLM's don't actually "know" anything.

Re: I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might have been similar to your reaction when you saw (depending on your age): a floppy disk (3.5") a floppy disk (5.25") a floppy disk (8")

I'm flattered, but you're only speculating, and at least for me this is not helpful. It does not tell me what their reaction was, which is a little sad, because I am curious what happens when somebody for whom Facebook is ancient tech encounters video cassettes. FWIW, I thought 8 inch floppies were weirdly big, but that's just a different form factor. It was normal to use floppies, tape or vinyl records for data and…

There are reaction videos on YouTube, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kesMOzzNBiQ
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