What is the device you want, but that does not exist?
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
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.
People who would like to get their hands a bit dirtier can take off the back cover and remove/desolder the WiFi and Bluetooth chips (if present). Just don’t touch the IR chip
This is how I use my TV but it’s still not perfect. When my TV turns on, it always try to shove a list of “smart apps” in my face which takes a minute to load even with no internet, and the input switcher is slow and clunky. I guess I would accept it anyway though since the smart features push down the price. I don’t think I’d be able to afford the LG C1 otherwise
I do use Kodi for local content, but this unfortunately doesn’t help with streaming services, and even dedicated steaming boxes have ads on their home screens now.
Visio penalizes you for not giving it Internet access by taking extra long to turn on while it vainly tries to phone home. There’s no way to turn off the “feature”.
Why is it not illegal for manufacturers to cripple hardware if you don’t let them invade your privacy?
Are there any alternate firmware sources for TVs that remove the smart features?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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. @crunchpaste you’ve got some options!
Now that we’re on the topic, an idea for an eCafe where there are plenty of physical books, but you can plug in the reader to a machine to fully download the book so you can read it offline.
I think I want to learn more about coding and find a bunch of leftist buddies and make shit that’s actually “innovative”.
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 author amazon, 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.
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.
Imagine as you go to sleep it is perfect temperature for you no need for open windows or extra blankets. You just turn the dial and it adjusts it or maybe it even have a curve so that you love for it start cold but wake up warm.
It is pitch black, no need to try block out any light.
It completely soundproof even if you live middle of the city. But it also have speakers just in case you like something in background as you sleep.
I think the future of next-gen housing will be something like this. I’ve been hearing stories on HackerNews about young developers earning good salaries in SF, unable to find a place to rent, so instead opt to live in their cars and go shower at the gym. They do this happily, and it doesn’t bother them.
As someone who used to frequently sleep under his desk as work in my early 20s, I can see portable sleep pods being a really good substitute for the inner city housing problem.
This was in the UK. I lived on one side of the city right next to a motoroway where it was too loud to sleep and I had no internet. My workplace was on the other of the city. On a rainy night, I didn’t always fancy cycling that distance just to get home for 3 hours of subpar sleep. Sleeping a half-decent 6-7 hours under my desk and then showering the next morning was much easier.
I’d prefer a house and a garden too, but that’s unlikely for a lot of people now. It’s just not the world we live in. You either are a homeowner, pay exorbitant rent, or are homeless.
Instead of having nothing between homeless and rising rent, it’d be nice to have an inbetween option.
I would love this - except that my wife and I would want completely different ambient temperatures and I don’t want to sleep in a different pod from her.
Yeah thats bit rough but maybe like one side you heat the wall, bottom and roof it could offset a bit? The other side cools just a tiny bit. You would not get as cold as you want but maybe it would be good enough compromise.
Plus if you have the problem of her hoarding bed less likely she does on your side.
But if you are the bed hoarder it probably won’t help her.
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.
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