I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
A high end phone with a headphone jack and Linux that works with banking apps.
Agreed, sadly not a technical problem but a business one. Unless governments step it I don’t see this changing.
It will eventually but of course it depends what is really meant by “high end”.
As the decades roll by I find I care less and less about “high end” and more and more about avoiding bullshit. While presently the portion of people who would buy such a phone is too few to make manufacturing viable, I suspect that portion will grow in the coming decades as millennials get older.
wait til he learns what android is
headphone jack
I am using Android right now, it’s very locked down - not that it’s not the lesser of two evils.
Why do you need a headphone jack? Any DAC in a phone is going to be useless if you’re saying because of HiFi Audio. And when it comes to using a HiFi DAC I’d much rather just use a USB-C powered port for my headphones.
iOS is based off of Darwin which was based off of BSD Linux. So was MacOS for that matter.
I’d like a headphone jack because it interfaces with the handful of devices I have that also have one, some of which are not easily replaced - like my 10 year old car.
Comparing iOS to Linux is like saying cats and dogs are the same. Like sure maybe at a really high level in that they are both operating systems but similarities end there. The biggest and most glaring difference being open source vs. proprietary. Even android which is actually based on Linux is a far cry from typical Linux experience and leaves me wanting more freedom to tinker outside of the walled garden.
Why does it need to be high-end or Linux if all you’re gonna do is render some banks’ webviews?
That’s not all I’m going to do, I want to be able to run stable diffusion and nationwide on the same device in my pocket.
So, two webviews.
No, locally.
So you just want proprietary Qualcomm software?
No, where did I say that?
The snooze button on my alarm clock needs to actually pause time, so I can sleep until I’m not tired anymore.
Great idea and great username.
Thanks
A small and lightweight smartphone with high end specs, especially tele camera, and a privacy respecting OS such as GrapheneOS
You know how Ctrl+F helps you find specific words in browsers? I want that in real life.
Maybe some special glasses with this ability built-in?
residential inventory bot sounds awesome
Pretty trivial technically speaking, you record everything once you get people consent, then you transcribe with e.g whisper.cpp or whatever else you have, search within the transcriptions and generate a link back to the original files, if need be, with seeking timing to double check.
I’ve wanted this for so long!
Chat gpt now has a feature that will let you take a picture of something and tell you what it is. There was a new contraption that showed up at my work when we combined offices and i used chatgpt to find out that it’s a manual comb binding machine used to bond books and other such things together. What’s neat is that if it can’t tell what something is from one picture, you can take additional photos to help narrow it down.
Take a look at rewind.ai
Cool software for the mac and they plan to release a personal device that records everything and do what you ask plus more
does this count?
Yes. Yes it does.
Drunk af, didn’t even read, recognized the art style and up voted
It’s called Canada
Hatschu! USA Hatschu!
Just an open source e-ink device with the build quality of a Kindle. Nothing fancy.
e-onk device
A donkey?
An electronic pig?
reMarkable, been using gen 1 then 2 for years now, runs on Linux and active dev community
less slick and much smaller community but the PineNote also works with Linux, kind of.
Remarkable looks cool, but I was talking about a dedicated e-reader. They probably won’t bother because their differentiator is the writing.
There needs to be one that is kindle adjacent, ru s linux, and comes with a ton of selections from project gutenberg, selling a little bit above cost. Thats the only way I could see this working.
Remarkable would be awesome if I could read my Kindle books on it. It seems to me that most e-ink tablets are good at either taking notes or ebooks, but none are really good at both…
This is more of a kindle lock in thing than a limitation of the Remarkable IMO. I use my remarkable 2 daily for reading. Everything I read is pirated and DRM free though.
If you feel strongly about giving money to
the authoramazon, then you could limit yourself to only downloading books which you’ve purchased for your kindle.I only read books that I have a physical copy of, or books that are on project Gutenberg. But really, we should seek to make all books free. An unencrypted epub is like 1 MB for like 300 pages usually.
I do wish that there was an open source e-reader that ran Linux. You can already read these things on your phone or on your computer. But I like the dedicated devices for reading.
Someone made an open source one that runs on a microprocessor, and it is a super cool project. But you really need a kernel to run arbitrary code, and gain access to open source e-reader software that gets you compatibility with publishing formats, layouts and fonts.
Getting Linux kernels onto more open source devices is probably a good goal - its still rather hard for a hobbyist to design a devicw that supports Linux.
A house hold device that can diagnose most sicknesses with a drop of blood or saliva
Hey, I’ve heard this one before!
Lol, I’d like a real one!
Empathy cannon.
That’s a great name for a post punk metal band.
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I also wouldn’t sacrifice an SD card slot…
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screws that don’t strip
I’m rather sick of their general slutiness overall, to be frank.
Come to Canada and use Robertson for everything
Spax torx?
This. Would like to find a cheaper alternative though.
A reverse microwave. I can heat a cup of coffee in 30 seconds, I want to chill a beer in 30 seconds.
Ice, water, and salt will do the trick in about 5 minutes. Best you’ll get in this no reverse microwave having ass world.
A machine that spins your can inside of water and ice exists and chills a drink within like a minute
Flash freeze equipment using very very cold air or liquid nitrogen exists, but you probably shouldn’t have that at home…
Niche, but I want it. It would look like a blank book, with pages that feel like paper. I’d be able to download whatever text I wanted, and read it like an old fashioned book. You’d be able to change the text as many times as you wanted to.
FWIW I’m using the reMarkable 2. It runs Linux and pretty fast eInk for sketching and writing notes. It’s not paper but closest to it I tried so far.
I want an orbital laser weapon that targets people who drive like insane maniacs or raging assholes.
A device to allow me to spread cream cheese evenly on a bagel without getting all over my fingers.
I’m thinking some sort of rotating bagel mount with a silicone tapered spike.
Butt-plug on a potters wheel. 👍
check out Cream Cheasy : aerosol cream cheese in a can at www.oldfash.com
I want a mid-range phone with a great camera and a telephoto lens.
I don’t need no AI bullshit, I don’t do gaming, I don’t need 32 gigs of ram on a phone.
I just wanna take great pictures.
Just buy a camera. Searching for consensus on this you’ll find people online telling you “well who needs a point and shoot, modern cameras are good enough, the camera you have is better than the good camera you leave at home” and etc, but for under $500 you can get a used or even new decent point and portable digital camera(similar form factor to what everyone had in the early to mid 00s) and it will fit in your pocket, bag, around neck and mop the floor with any cell phone camera when photographing anything you have to zoom in on.
Depending on what you buy you’ll of course have more of a learning curve compared to the ai, but it wont have that over sharpened ai enhanced oil painting look that phone cameras give you when you zoom in a little, and yes the results can be much better. You can take snapshots with fast shutter of birds in flight, stop a helicopters blades, capture precipitation, and of course zoom in a little into things that the cell phone camera would poop itself trying to capture.
pixel 6 pro with grapheneos
