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1366 points aleksi | 5 comments | 14 Oct 24 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.573s | source
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sureIy ◴[14 Oct 24 15:57 UTC] No.41838740[source]▶
Does this really beat a printed BUSY clipart taped to my screen? It's far from the first product I see like this and the question is always the same.
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1. loloquwowndueo ◴[14 Oct 24 15:59 UTC] No.41838760[source]▶
It does cover people interrupting you to ask “ok but how long will you be busy?” :) unless you want to replace your taped clip art every minute or so.
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2. qmarchi ◴[14 Oct 24 16:04 UTC] No.41838831[source]▶
You can set your clipart to an end time rather than a count down. "Busy until 16:00"
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3. echoangle ◴[14 Oct 24 16:19 UTC] No.41838996[source]▶
At this price, you can get a second Monitor facing outward and display how long you’ll be busy on that. In fact, you can get 2 monitors and another computer and have some change left. This is a cool product, especially design-wise, but there are much cheaper solution for this very small problem.
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4. loloquwowndueo ◴[14 Oct 24 16:34 UTC] No.41839124[source]▶
Clever! Thanks you just saved me 200 bucks :)
5. felideon ◴[14 Oct 24 16:52 UTC] No.41839337[source]▶
Good point. I finally know what to do with the old iPads my kids don't use anymore.