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

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      8·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, sadly not a technical problem but a business one. Unless governments step it I don’t see this changing.

      • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • Heratiki@lemmy.ml
      111·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • trakie@beehaw.org
        5·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
      420·
      1 year ago

      Why does it need to be high-end or Linux if all you’re gonna do is render some banks’ webviews?

      • NathA
        192·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • kernelle@lemm.ee
            31·
            1 year ago

            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.

        • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Easily fixable, also I think KSU exists for this reason? And seems like another alternative is on the way.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
        171·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • onion@feddit.de
    572·
    1 year ago

    A small and lightweight smartphone with high end specs, especially tele camera, and a privacy respecting OS such as GrapheneOS

  • Kalinus@lemmings.world
    55·
    1 year ago

    Probably all of those devices that can help fight climate change the news keeps talking about at least once a month.

    • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbtEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
    46·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • FuzzyLeonardo@beehaw.org
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          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”.

    • Synthead@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      The older Kindles are basically this. Most of their software it runs on are shell scripts under the hood.

  • Sparking@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    Just an open source e-ink device with the build quality of a Kindle. Nothing fancy.

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Sparking@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • daddyjones@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        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…

        • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • Sparking@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            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.

  • Zetta@mander.xyz
    30·
    1 year ago

    A house hold device that can diagnose most sicknesses with a drop of blood or saliva

  • Tunawithshoes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    29·
    1 year ago

    A sleeping pod for home.

    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.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    29·
    1 year ago

    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.