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 collapsible storage container for pantry stuff, so you don’t have inefficienct containers that take up more space than they need to hold the item.
A DVR but for dreams.
I feel like there was a Built to Spill song about 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
That made me lol. Thanks.
A device that is the size of a pen drive, costs a fiver, produces unlimited energy with zero carbon footprint, and has access control restrictions built in so anyone who is a politician or bureaucrat cannot use it.
Multiplayer lucid dreams device
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?
Where’s that screenshot of Homer in that car he designed?
Note 9 2.0
So, any of the xkcd phones?
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:xkcd_Phones
Thank you, I’ve never seen these. I love this.
I’m surprised people wanna use pens on such a small device
A grapple gun that can pull you up a building like batman. I was bummed when I found out those don’t really exist
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.
wait til they learn and the non carbon dioxide pollutants that are 100x worse
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.
A modern Firefox OS phone with a really great camera.
I’m just increasingly grumpy that my OS and my hardware aren’t my own anymore. It’s all removed features, unsupported apps, changes made “for your convenience,” rent-seeking, tracking profiles, incessant ads, “please use our app”… I don’t really use any apps that don’t have functional websites, so all I really need my phone to be is a phone app, a camera, and a browser.
Indefinite lifespan vaccine.
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).
GrapheneOS is more secure than linux: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html
Android is based on the Linux kernel tho
The kernel might be Linux, but the userspace is what makes it Android.
Faster than light warp engine of some sort.
If we’re ignoring laws of physics, let’s throw replicators in there.
It won’t break the laws of physics. Scientists are going to increase the speed of light in 2208.
A high end phone with a headphone jack and Linux that works with banking apps.
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.
My phone has a Hi-fi DAC. One of several reasons I haven’t “upgraded”.
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.
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.
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 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?
If you root/jailbreak your phone, banks will no longer allow you to use it for payments. The NFC chip won’t be trusted any longer.
OK, but that’s not a “banking app.”
There is a Magisk module that bypasses that on Android. Look up SafetyNetFix.
Good tip but definitely does not work 100% of the time, I used different bypass methods and some worked for one app but blocked another again. It’s possible if you know some code but to maintain it it’s not worth it IMO. Where I live being hacked is covered by insurance but if you bypassed root restrictions they definitely won’t be on your side.
