Stuff like a pretty case with slots for optical drives, a laptop with a shitton of ports and all-day battery life or anything else that seems to go against the trends.
This thread is for complaining about how you can’t find it and (maybe) finding it thanks to someone else.
I want physical media that is not sold on optical disks. Sell me content on SD cards for example.
Little retro games handheld with a clamshell oled display
A small android smartphone with good software support
Folding screen eReader…it would be extremely niche, but I want it
Recently heard about RePebble, so my complaining about smart watches may have to end
How low-tech is still tech?
I want a device that can be armed and if moved without being disarmed (optional passcode) will set off an alarm.
This is both for my laptop when working in public spaces and for my cooler/food bag when camping.
Knog does these for bikes.
They have these for bikes, I’ve not looked too far into it, but maybe that would work?
Is a truck tech? Fuck it I’m calling a pickup truck tech.
I just want a pickup the size of a 90s ford ranger that’s a hybrid. Since I’m making it a unicorn, lets go 4wd
I’d like that but full electric, minimum 500km in the “tank” I had an all electric vehicle and LOVED everything about it, except the range. Then eventually I needed a truck for my job (but I did cram my Kia Soul to the brim for the 3 years I had it.)
I’d buy a hybrid though, if that’s what was available.
Diesel too?
Nah, I don’t need diesel. Lets be honest at hybrid it’ll do the job just fine as is.
Basically I want the kind of pickup truck that I can toss a few 2x4s in the back and go, doesn’t have to be big, doesn’t need a lot of hauling power. Which is the opposite of the way trucks are going nowadays, which are big as fuck and made to tow the fucking world with the shortest damn truck bed that I’ve watched people struggle to get a tv into because the bed is too short.
A phone that runs Linux, has decent battery life, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
I’ve got one, but does it have to sell outside the EU too?
The reason this doesn’t work is because Android and iOS limit the crap out of app functionality to allow for battery optimization. On Linux, users (and apps) do whatever the crap they feel like (and that’s a good thing, until you talk about battery).
Fractal Design’s Pop cases have a 5.25" bay. It’s hidden behind a pop-off panel at the bottom, in the power supply basement.
Water bottle that auto seals and is easy to clean.
A Steam Deck with stock pricing in Mexico.
Rootable Android (or Linux) based “mp3 player”. Basically an iPod touch. No cell radio.
I might struggle to make it the size of an iPod Touch but that’s not difficult to build out of a Raspberry Pi.
That’s cool, hadn’t really thought about it. Basically looking for a wifi-only device I can install Signal on.
You’d get the desktop version of Signal doing it that way.
Nah. With an Android device, you can install the Signal app (it’s even on FDroid now). You’ll need a phone number to register it, but just to receive the code. Could be a mobile number you have, a landline, or a VoIP (ie, jmp.chat) number-- as long as you haven’t already registered for Signal with it.
A Linux device could pose some difficulty, but I think there is progress being made on running Android apps.
Edit: sorry, forgot some of the context here. Leaving it since I’m pretty sure you can install Android on a RasPi.
Yeah I usually think of the Raspberry Pi as a box for running Debian on.
Literally couldn’t fall asleep last night, thinking about how much I’d want this and how hard it’d be to neuter a cellphone to make this.
Why couldn’t you just use a custom launcher? This isn’t a hard task.
Let me preface this by saying that, compared to your average Lemmy user, I am not a technical person. What stuck in my head was removing the radio and comms tech completely - no cell radio, no wifi, no GPS. Literally just make it an average cellphone sized offline tablet, where you’re adding stuff only via the USB port or SD card slot.
Assuming this were possible/actually worth it, would probably need custom firmware to actually make it useable anyway. Just taking an off the shelf smartphone and using a custom launcher would likely be the more practical route, but I’d be more interested if it was offline only from a pure hardware perspective.
But I digress - I just thought it was funny to see this when it seriously was the “What if?” that made it hard for me to get to sleep the other day.
I’m amazed I can’t find such a thing on AliExpress.
A media player that isn’t just a modified android tablet in a box with an HDMI output. (And loaded with spyware). And doesn’t require an always-on internet connection.
Pc with an asrock mobo
What about an Android tablet running a custom ROM without GApps flashed, and an adapter for HDMI? There’s a handful of widely sold tablets that also have a decent development scene and are cheap second hand. Check XDA forums for various models before deciding which one to get
I need an ecmascript library that demuxes mpeg when fed individual frames. Every lib just wants to take in a whole file or URL to a stream. I need to filter the websocket sending the data so I need to feed individual frames to the lib. I’m only finding commonjs libs that do this
Cheap large e-ink android screen. Doesn’t need to do anything other than be a consistent, always on display with a long battery life.
They look neat, but way too powerful and expensive, and not big enough. I want a whiteboard size e-ink display with a processor like a potato for like <100 USD
As someone who’s been wanting a boox tablet for a while I don’t think they fit “cheap”
what’s “large” and what’s “cheap”?
