Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for?

• Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The “shoe” is the mount. “Hot” means powered, for things like flashes. “Cold” means unpowered, for things like tripods.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right but there isn’t anything that resembles that in the image

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    • Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing at all like that in the picture, literally the only thing i can think of is the charging contacts on a cordless phone? But then why not post a picture of a cordless phone.

      If it’s not “the hook” (as in “phone is off the hook”) then idk what the OP is asking…

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      • Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would hazard a guess that

        1. this is just a picture of a “telephone with a handset”, not the specific thing they’re talking about, and

        2. their phone has a removable “hook” that was removed and lost sometime in the past and they’re seeing the slot where it went

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