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-quality dumb TV.
Get your ads (and security vulnerabilities) out of my damn house.
Just plug a computer into your TV, and never give the TV Ethernet or WiFi access.
Manufacturers have gotten smart to that, if you don’t agree to the terms you may not get the full features. Not just the smart features.
Interesting. The only feature I can think of mine missing is firmware updates.
*dumb house.
The only way
I kinda disagree here - I have no problem using smart lights, etc., as long as they’re controlled by a non-cloud system like HomeAssistant. This just doesn’t seem to be an option for more complex devices.
Agreed, “smart” isn’t what matters, it’s more connected and in control, with Internet optional, no proprietary app or weird protocol mandatory.
FWIW using an Android video projector with VLC connecting to uPnP server, only my video files availble. Otherwise can use its HDMI input but as-is it’s all wireless.
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
That made me lol. Thanks.
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.
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.
A small and lightweight smartphone with high end specs, especially tele camera, and a privacy respecting OS such as GrapheneOS
Add foldable, built in pen, macro camera, laser focus, headphone jack (and a good dac), xenon flash, ideally swappable battery, waterproof and im sold - is that really too much to ask?
So, any of the xkcd phones?
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:xkcd_Phones
Probably all of those devices that can help fight climate change the news keeps talking about at least once a month.
Carbon capture and sequestration. I’d really like that.
They built one in South America! It’ll take 168,000 years to capture the excess carbon we made just in 2022.
The trick is that Capital wants a device that can stop climate change and make money at the same time. Something they can sell. Like cold fusion, or efficient sequestration, or solar shades, or some other bullshit product that makes money. But the truth is, saving the world doesn’t make you money, and it isn’t free. Bill Ney said it best:
What I’m saying is the planet’s on fucking fire. There are a lot of things we could do to put it out. Are any of them free? No, of course not, nothing’s free, you idiots! Grow the fuck up, you’re not children anymore. I didn’t mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were twelve. But you’re adults now, and this is an actual crisis! Got it? Safety glasses off, motherfuckers.
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?
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.
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!
A reverse microwave. I can heat a cup of coffee in 30 seconds, I want to chill a beer in 30 seconds.
Literally just an android phone, but it comes pre-rooted and one of the system apps is a scripting language, similar to how the TI-83 comes with TI-BASIC. It’s bullshit that we’re carrying these powerful super-computers everywhere but with less user empowerment then a mid-tier calculator.
(yes, I know you can root your phone and install termux and python but I want that to be the default)
A mute button for people.
Black Mirror
aka headphones
Or a gun
Easy to mute but harder to unmute.
Unmuting wasn’t in the original specs
Fair
A toilet that can plunge and snake itself.
I just want an affordable 10" color e-ink ebook reader, that has natural colors, so it is good enough to read modern comics on.
Edit: I forgot to mention “affordable”
This is my dream device as well.
That would be awesome.
Maybe one of the boox devices might fit your description?
If I recall correctly, even the Boox devices don’t do colors that well… But it’s better than nothing. Also, I forgot to mention I’d prefer if it was affordable. I’ll go back and add that to my original post.
Pretty sure this exists from a company called bigme. Might be hard to get in the US though.
ONYX has something similar with their Boox devices, but the colors look kinda dull in both cases.
I’m not in the US so perhaps it’s an option for me?
Gun from Portal.
Don’t you need moon dust to make the portals work?
5 inch android phone :(
I would love to have an open, hackable, linux-based eBook reader.
Isn’t there a project for that is working on that concept?
Edit: Found it! It’s called openbook
PineNote exists too, though it’s often out of stock. Remarkable tablet has a pretty decent hacking community, and gives you its root password in settings. Kobo devices have been able to run aftermarket software for years, and recently there’s been progress in booting a complete OS. If you’re okay with Android there are even more choices. @[email protected] you’ve got some options!
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!
