If you use such a thing on a regular kind of meeting that happens over zoom or similar, your arm will atrophy and fall off from having to hold that thing for the duration.
The only remedy I see is to give everyone such a contraption and make it mandatory.
Someone please make a Moto Razr form factor and snap bluetooth device so I can keep my big and costly device in my bag and use it only when I actually need to.
> Half an hour and fifty dollars later, I realized I had spent fifty dollars on this, and that this was not sustainable because, if anything, the code was getting more and more buggy the more Claude fixed it.
Off topic, this has been my experience with AI so often that it prevents me from exploring AI uses more.
I liked Cursor’s “auto” plan but that now seems gone. I’d happily switch to a provider that offers a similarly “unlimited” usage.
> Since I didn’t want to make any permanent changes to the phone, I didn’t want to remove these tabs, or to solder anything onto them. I just wanted to connect a cable to them in the easiest way possible.
Same here but I want to go for a xilink bluetooth adapter and maybe even sacrifice and old smartphone with a separate sim. Not sure if the AI stuff will work but it seems possible….
Interesting - summer 2024 I picked-up an old rotary, my plan is to make it ring when a "insert-corporate-instant-messaging/voip/meeting" application call comes in... But time, no time...
Since you didn't modify the original phone, I wonder if the oldschool dialing way of digit-banging would work. For each digit N, you hit the hangup button N times, pause, then go to next digit. Used to do that on our family's Pupin that looks like this one [1]
Neat! On a mostly serious note, I went looking to buy a handset that just plugs in via USB and is a normal speaker/microphone, and I was quite surprised there wasn't anything like that out there, at least not that I could find.
Am I the only one that wants something like this? Does anybody know where to get one?
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.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 59.0 ms ] threadThe only remedy I see is to give everyone such a contraption and make it mandatory.
Off topic, this has been my experience with AI so often that it prevents me from exploring AI uses more.
I liked Cursor’s “auto” plan but that now seems gone. I’d happily switch to a provider that offers a similarly “unlimited” usage.
Same here but I want to go for a xilink bluetooth adapter and maybe even sacrifice and old smartphone with a separate sim. Not sure if the AI stuff will work but it seems possible….
[1] https://in.pinterest.com/pin/rare-vintage-pupin-bakelite-rot...
https://blog.waleson.com/2024/10/bakelite-to-future-1950s-ro...
It actually supports using the rotary dial to call phone numbers on your smartphone.
Am I the only one that wants something like this? Does anybody know where to get one?
https://herbworld.com/en/products/retro-telephone-red
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.