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.
wait til he learns what android is
I am using Android right now, it’s very locked down - not that it’s not the lesser of two evils.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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Drunk af, didn’t even read, recognized the art style and up voted
It’s called Canada
Just an open source e-ink device with the build quality of a Kindle. Nothing fancy.
e-onk device
A donkey?
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…
Empathy cannon.
That’s a great name for a post punk metal band.
This is like Cupid’s arrow, but better.
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!
The older Kindles are basically this. Most of their software it runs on are shell scripts under the hood.
reMarkable, open-ish but runs Linux and active dev community
I want an orbital laser weapon that targets people who drive like insane maniacs or raging assholes.
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
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 would like a flagship spec (especially RAM, give me all the RAM possible) phone with a small screen and a massive battery life; sacrificing other components to put a big battery. One small camera is enough for me, I don’t need 3 cameras on the back of my phone. I would also get a small, single speaker to save internal space, and remove the haptic system entirely in exchange for a larger battery.
I wouldn’t sacrifice the headphone jack though, I hate using dongles.
I also wouldn’t sacrifice an SD card slot…
It’s been over a decade since I had a phone with an SD card slot, so I kinda forgot they exist, but you’re right, this is an extremely useful feature.
Faster than light warp engine of some sort.
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.
- Open source motherboards
- Open source modems for computers and phones
- Open source cars
- GrapheneOS phone with enough RAM to run a decent offline LLM
- Offline AI privacy/network manager designed to white noise the stalkerware standards of the shitternet with a one click setup
- Real AI hardware designed for tensor math using standard DIMM system memory with many slots and busses in parallel instead of bleeding edge monolithic GPU stuff targeting a broad market. The bottle neck in the CPU structure is the L2 to L1 cache bus width and transfer rate with massive tensor tables that all need to run at one time. System memory is great for its size but its size is only possible because of the memory controller that swaps out a relatively small chunk that is actually visible to the CPU. This is opposed to a GPU where there is no memory controller and the memory size is directly tied to the compute hardware. This is the key difference we need to replicate. We need is a bunch of small system memory sticks where the chunk normally visible to the CPU is all that is used and a bunch of these sticks on their own busses running to the compute hardware. Then older, super cheap system memory could be paired with ultra cheap trailing edge compute hardware to make cheaper AI that could run larger models, (at the cost of more power consumption). Currently larger than 24GBV GPUs are pretty much unobtainium, like an A6000 at 48GBV will set you back at least $4k. I want to run a 70B or greater. That would need ~140GBV to run super fast on dedicated optimised hardware. There is already an open source offline 180B model, and that would need ~360GBV for near instantaneous response. While super speeds with these large models is not needed for basic LLM prompting, it makes a big difference with agents where the model needs to do a bunch of stuff seamlessly while still appearing to work in realtime conversationally.
Real AI hardware designed for tensor math
Coral TPU
A modern smartphone (good battery, screen, etc.) running an alternative OS (like Linux or OpenBSD) with the ability to run Android (or iOS) apps I unfortunately need to use.
I recently switched to a Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS and while it’s nice, I still really hate the locked down nature of Android (and iOS).
Android is based on the Linux kernel tho
The kernel might be Linux, but the userspace is what makes it Android.
5 inch android phone :(
Yes! I came here to post, “a modern phone that fits in my hand”
