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1366 points aleksi | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 15:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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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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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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RockRobotRock ◴[14 Oct 24 21:26 UTC] No.41842210[source]▶
My old company used these more recently: https://busylight.com/
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1. 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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