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 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?
A high end phone with a headphone jack and Linux that works with banking apps.
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.
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?
I’ve wanted this for so long!
residential inventory bot sounds awesome
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.
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
A mute button for people.
Black Mirror
Instachill, microwave oven for cooling.
Just a big “fuck you” to entropy. Yes please.
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
The older Kindles are basically this. Most of their software it’s run on shell scripts under the hood.
A high-end smartphone with 16:9 4K screen running a non-Google Linux variant.
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.
I want a terminal-interface-laptop.
It’s not a computer, but looks like a laptop, and all it does is connect wirelessly to my desktop.
It’s just a Bluetooth keyboard and monitor in a laptop box.
And something to make it extensible via WiFi and cell coverage so you can take it anywhere.
This is the laptop they don’t want us to have because it would instantly make all laptops a joke. You could upgrade to your heart’s content and not be striken to shelve out thousands of dollars every few years for something that doesn’t work as good as it should.
This is any computer and remote desktop. Could build a Linux machine to start a remote desktop tool instead of a desktop environment, if you want.
Congratulations, you just reinvented dumb terminals.
You’re severely underestimating bandwidth and lag.
This exists. Get a cheap netbook and stick your Linux distro of choice on it, and then just use it to ssh to things.
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 RISC-V laptop that’s not an engineering sample. Something like a dell 9370 sort of thing.
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
Those exist!
They’re called “lapdocks”.
lapdocks
TIL
I’ve been wanting to make my own cyberdeck based off my phones dex and parsec to my VM but currently I just use a small USB hub to a kvm so I can switch between my work computer and my phone attached to a monitor but it’s not cool and portable
How about a wireless lapdock for my desktop, so I can have the processing power in mobile form.
Slap Linux on a cheap craptop and SSH into your desktop
If nobody else wants it, I guess I’ll claim the time machine. With a money printer on the front, please. Thanks!
