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1366 points aleksi | 8 comments | 14 Oct 24 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.014s | source | bottom
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frereubu ◴[14 Oct 24 16:16 UTC] No.41838956[source]▶
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 speaking to someone.
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1. vel0city ◴[14 Oct 24 17:21 UTC] No.41839649[source]▶
Our old Plantronics phone headsets had a TRS jack which would connect to an optional status light. It would light up when the headset was on a call.

https://www.headsetsdirect.com/product/poly-busy-light-strai...

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2. frereubu ◴[14 Oct 24 20:44 UTC] No.41841775[source]▶
Man, Plantronics. That brings back some memories!
3. RockRobotRock ◴[14 Oct 24 21:26 UTC] No.41842210[source]▶
My old company used these more recently: https://busylight.com/
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4. ShakataGaNai ◴[14 Oct 24 23:55 UTC] No.41843520[source]▶
I used one of those recently at home since my wife can't see my screen, she's not sure if I'm on a call, listening to music or just there. The built in software sucks, but there are some good open source options https://github.com/JnyJny/busylight also works together with https://mutedeck.com/ for supporting things like Zoom.
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5. RockRobotRock ◴[15 Oct 24 06:10 UTC] No.41845426{3}[source]▶
one comment to promote your product is enough. we don't need 26 (yes i counted)
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6. susanthenerd ◴[15 Oct 24 06:15 UTC] No.41845455{4}[source]▶
You know if you click on the timestamp on a comment there is a flag button?

Also you are right comments like this are very annoying. I'm still surprised that HN doesn't have some kind of spam filter or rate limit

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7. kstrauser ◴[15 Oct 24 06:34 UTC] No.41845597{5}[source]▶
I’m focusing on flagging these.
8. 71bw ◴[15 Oct 24 06:37 UTC] No.41845615{4}[source]▶
Up to 47 now. Didn't notice it was all one guy until you posted this.