Up to you whether you want to limit your answer to software that is possible/realistic
A Rockstar version of Starfield/Fallout/Elderscrolls
Bethesda has become so goddamned lazy in their game mechanic design. Its 2026…an NPC should be at least smart enough to know I’m still fucking there if I leave their field of view.
Or whether I’ve already joined and completed their mortal enemies quest line and behave accordingly towards me as a result…
Or even just realising that of your company just got hacked, even if you didn’t witness it, it might have something to do with the stranger that was fucking around in your server room…
Or at least react when I bump into them…
I dearly love Bethesda’s open worlds. I love the settings, the stories etc… There are no games I would rather “live in”, for lack of a better word. But those worlds deserve far far better NPC/faction mechanics
Homescreen widget for my phone thats actually just a tamagotchi. Maybe it already exists and I just havent looked for it.
Having to open the app and shit is already too much hassle. But if its alive in the corner whenever I turn my phone on I’d love it.
Maybe? Connect it to the step-counter so it knows if its been a walk that day, or to earn food/medicine whatever? Already sounds overdeveloped.
Regular tamagotchi please.
I want a program that will digitize my brain and give me control over all the inputs and weights.
Free me from this accursed prison of flesh!!
A phone app that automatically accepts calls from suspected scam numbers, robocalls and unknown numbers and immediately mutes the mic, keeping the call going until the machine on the other side of the line disconnects and marks my number as non-working.
This has been how I’ve gone down from multiple spam calls a week to just a few a year. I’d really like to automate that.
I had an idea, personally I just use the Google phone app it seems to do a pretty good job of blocking spam calls somehow. However I had a funny idea. I suspect that these robocallers May be able to recognize the we’re sorry your call cannot be completed as dialed tone and words which may signal to them that the number doesn’t work.
A peer-to-peer prediction market where instead of betting on forest fires, we bet on datacenter fires and mansion fires.
This goes into the presently unrealistic, but I want a HUD that can display quests, tasks, inventory and health stats.
No, it’s plausible
The unrealistic part is expecting the company (who has access to whatever information you use for your HUD stats) not to take greedy advantage of every tiny detail of your life to fill your HUD with ads and probably other nefarious shit
And for the HUD to not be AI-powered, since they’d also be too lazy to put real programming into it
I’d love an online-free version of that though. Huge one-time purchase, software runs entirely within hardware. That’s the dream
Ya that’s why I think it’s presently unrealistic, because corporate greed would absolutely make it ad riddled garbage.
But AR and machine learning, so it can take my personal and work tasks/goals, things I purchase or otherwise acquire (like gifts, other free stuff, things bought outside a digitized marketplace), on hardware and heavily secured but otherwise able to access the Internet.
I essentially want a video game style HUD IRL. It would help so damn much with object impermanence and low functioning short term memory. Oh yeah, I forgot I had this thing or this side quest waiting, without having to manually track it.
Tried using a productivity suite for personal stuff a couple times and just swept it aside. Granted it would probably end up adding to notification fatigue anyways.
Some wizard tool I can download that will swap out Windows for a stable Linux distro, like Fedora or Debian.
I dunno about today but this existed for years and was called something like Goodbye Windows IIRC
Nice try, open source developers who want to make the world a better place.
I was thinking more along the lines of someone who wants to be an open source developer but doesn’t know how to do it so will just use AI to vibe code litterally the entire thing.
Is there any tool that makes it easy to host videos on my website and emulate the YouTube watching experience?
Like, people go to my website, watch the video in a player, then when it ends they get a few tiles either of other videos I have up, or recent videos from others I’ve approved? Maybe it just pulls links and thumbnails from specific RSS feeds I list somewhere on the backend?
The player is easy enough, it’s the bandwidth of hosting video files that’ll kill you. That’s why YouTube took off in the first place, free third-party video hosting changed the entire game.
Masturbator/Dildo software that integrates with an EEG to scan your brain, know when you’re about to cum, and then edge you over and over again.
Have you heard of https://maustec.io/pages/edge-o-matic
I just want something that’ll chop the sponsored segment out of my podcasts. Can’t be that hard. Every sponsor segment starts and ends with a standard jingle, so just have the software look for that opening and closing jingle and cut out whatever’s in between, right?
Honestly considering vibe coding it because ads are the reason I don’t listen to my podcasts anymore
One of my favorite uses for a a VPN is hearing podcast ads in a language I don’t understand.
I’ve thought about that too. Then I feel guilty cutting out their revenue source. Then I realize that doesn’t matter. Then I realize that it’ll require also wrapping it in a whole-ass podcast app. But there could probably be a way to download episodes, run them through the ad filter, then host an rss feed of that list of files… that’s it, I’ll do it.
Automating it would be rad, but if I could even just plug the episodes I have into such a software and de-sponsor them in batches I’d be happy. I was caught up with Hey Riddle Riddle right up until their ads stopped being a set length. Now I gotta skip forward and backward until I find the end of the ad, and I simply stopped listening.
Nurse here. The software we chart with (that I’ve used at least - plenty out there I haven’t touched) ranges from meh to absolute shit. Some of the features on my wishlist would be elimination of redundant charting (like, if put the date down in one section, don’t fuckin ask in 3 others!), a way to save templates without patient-specific data, so when I do the same procedure on 5 different people, I can just click the template and fill in any holes instead of starting from scratch each time. Some actual standardization so different programs can actually talk to eachother. Like, ER, scheduling, preop, surgery, anesthesia, recovery, med surg, and sterile processing are all departments that might be involved in a single patient visit (checked into ER, sent for emergency surgery, then kept overnight for observation before discharge)… there’ll be some overlap, but scheduling, anesthesia, and sterile processing are usually each rocking their own unique software. The others are usually decently linked up nowadays, but still with the odd exception… like trying to get surgical updates from ICU so you know when to have a bed ready; but the chart is just dead and now a PACU nurse is calling report cuz the surgery finished 40 fuckin minutes ago, all because some some jackass in the ER left the patient’s chart open which locked everyone else out of signing their notes. Surprise!
…most of the issues with our charting software boils down to dumb shit like that - proprietary systems that are incapable of communicating, or just good ol’ fashioned garbage design. And it’ll stay that way, cuz oligopoly.
most of the issues with our charting software boils down to dumb shit like that - proprietary systems that are incapable of communicating, or just good ol’ fashioned garbage design
This is everywhere. I deleted a more thought out response when I realized that someone probably handed over ALL of the backend databases of patient data to an LLM (it’s HIPAA compliant so don’t worry *wink*) so that it can spew out MORE bullshit that doesn’t work, but a lot of money was paid for it so we’re going to use it.
I work for a division of a health tech company and I can say that we hear you and value this kind of feedback. There are folks I work with who have dedicated themselves (including myself) to seek solutions to problems like these, and as a former integrations engineer, some companies are better at interoperability than others, despite the efforts of the HITECH Act in the US. My frustration is time and getting the attention of those who greenlight projects to work on things like these. On one hand, I feel OSS could help solve these problems sooner, but on the other hand, healthcare has some very opinionated people and things could get messy.
Oi,I feel you so hard on this, as a software developer who works on medical devices and software used in medical contexts, holy shit the pickings are so bad.
Why can’t someone just conjure up solutions to all of this (which is totally doable technically)? Because FDA regulation forces us to follow Byzantine release processes and meet very exacting requirements for the software end product.
I could probably knock together at least two or three of your wishlist items in a week, and it would take 1-3 years for it to make it to the first customer. Even patches and fixes I build for existing products take 3-6 months to make it out the door after they’re done.
All of that to say, these make friction points that make it difficult for developers to coordinate and standardize without introducing mountains of extra bullshit that didn’t need to actually be in the product or software in the first place
It’s always been a fool’s errand to attempt software in the education or medical space. The requirements are too onerous and haphazard to be anywhere near worth it.
As a physical therapist, one thing that bugs me (and I know it’s not a software limitation but spending choices) is having to wedge my notes into a format designed for a physician or something else.
I got a small taste of that back in nursing school. Our care plans followed a very strict template for our clinical patients, and they were 100% geared toward med surg. My day in the OR made for an especially hard time trying to check all the boxes… I remember a whole lot of “yeah I didn’t asses for that, cuz pt was getting surgery… but, uh, here’s what I’d be looking for if I did! …uh, nope, no interventions, due to the patient still getting surgery, but here’s a few things I could have done if they weren’t being actively cut open”
Fortunately the profs were well aware of that dillemma, so they graded pretty soft on OR days lol. So, you’ve definitely got my empathy on this one - dealing with that garbage every day sounds like a nightmare!
…this is probably the core issue of why so many different departments end up using a completely different software package.
As someone who’s worked with data from the backend of these systems I feel your pain. Why does someone need 10 different DoB’s over the course of 3 visits and why did those 3 day visits occur on 8 different days?
As a frequent patient I understand why everyone is always asking me my DOB excessively, to make sure they’ve got the right person and that I’m ‘with it’ enough to call the shots about my health, I assume? I guess that translates to paperwork too.
Thats why they ask you yes.
They them have to fill out forms on the visit and are asked there multiple times.
A program that continuously poisons all corporate AI data sets.
I mean, that’s sort of already happening: Model Collapse. It’s just a matter of time now.
Something like duolingo but for voice training specifically.
It’s what I am working on at the moment as personal project but I don’t have experience with meither microphones nor signal analysis.
I think Yousician had a vocals program, but I haven’t tried it.
A multimedia centre like Kodi or Jellyfin with the ability to schedule shows like it was a regular TV channel. With shows playing on their time slots, a random movie starting every day at ten.
There are times that I just want to turn on the TV and watch whatever is on without having to scroll through the entire library for something I could be in the mood for.
have you looked at ersatztv?
No, I guess I will spend the next few hours looking into it.
Seconding this. ErsatzTV is what you want.
Multiple things exist to do this.
