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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

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

A Motorola Droid 4 (SLIDE IN KEYBOARD FUCK YES) with a 5" screen and more recent components. Hell, use mid-high end from 2018, like 3GB RAM and a decent processor would be more than enough for me. Don't forget the earphone jack and easily removable back.

In the realm of pure fantasy, a stealth boy from Fallout, or the similar Stealth thingy from Metal Gear Solid

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

A true virtual reality. Not goggles, but the kind that hooks up into your brain and consciousness. One that's indistinguishable from real life. The kind where you can basically just live your entire life in some kind of a virtual multiplayer where quite literally anything is possible. You could be hooked up to an IV that feeds you optimal diet etc. go off the deep end if you want.

I know how it might seem crazy to see something like that as a desirable thing, but I really think it would solve many of the issues in the world. I don't think you're "wasting your life" if you're being happy in a virtual world, and I don't see a reason why you couldn't be happy there. You could have your own private world(s) and others would have theirs. There would be public worlds also with a ton of real people aswell as AI, and people could visit your worlds aswell if you let them. Just think about the possbilities. Why ruin the planet when you can have abundance in the virtualverse.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

A fucking PC that ACTUALLY has zero problems for however long I have it, its a mystical beast I have yet to come across

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Gender dial, so I can turn it either way and get instant results.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago
  1. A very cheap smartphone that is decent performance-wise and comes with Lineage, Graphene OS or something similar.

  2. A machine that can turn thoughts/dreams into video, image, or other mediums.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

A modern electric compact truck like the 1992 gmc sonoma.

Firefox OS

A fairphone with the specs of the ROG phone, or just a repairable rog phone.

a 4k 240hz oled monitor

LFP phone batteries.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Monitor replacement glasses, like NReal Air, that actually are a good enough replacement for my second screen to allow a full day of work.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Star Trek Industrial Replicator...Star Trek has never really had an episode that explored the magic of what you could do if you had a replicator. Just having ONE, would change the world overnight, and forever. I'd start replicating replicators and handing them out.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Regular looking glasses with live captioning. We get close but it always seems just out of reach.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

A lightsaber

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Okay.

Laptop: I want a ~13 inch laptop with a nice keyboard, a decent trackpad, and a quality 1080p LCD screen, with a very efficient low power ARM processor akin to a Raspberry Pi running some well tested flavor of Linux, and the rest of the machine is just battery. Something that can do some web browsing, some word processing, spreadsheet, let me use bash and vim and ssh and such, that doesn't suck to use because it's "for early adopters and serious hackers only." Like imagine the machine you'd get if the Pinebook Pro legitimately cost $600 rather than $200, is what I think I want.

Phone: I want a 4.5 inch phone with a physical slide-out keyboard that has modern, performant internals that can smoothly run its own UI plus reasonable web browsing and communication/text app capacity. It should be able to play 720p video from the internet flawlessly (this would be a perfectly fine resolution for the screen) and it should have at least 4000 mAH of battery. Any camera from any phone I've owned in the last 10 years is acceptable.

Audio Equipment: I want ANR over the ear headphones that provide enough ANR and/or PNR that I can use them as hearing protection in the wood shop while I'm using my planer or router or whatever, that work perfectly well over normal bluetooth, that have all physical button controls, no touch sensitive whatever, and do not have any kind of app.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

An updated Samsung Galaxy Note with a quality stylus (Similar to the one for Note 2), and no bloatware that cannot be uninstalled.

Samsung always has tonnes of bloatware, and the newer Note styluses are (and feel like) cheap plastic. Give me back the aluminum stylus, ffs.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I would like a smart stove. One that you can set to turn on and off remotely. No more worrying that I left the stove on. Why not I ask you? Why not?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

You need to go appliance shopping my friend.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

a gaming laptop that doesnt overheat constantly ,mine goes up to 80c when im playing overwatch of all games

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Tony Stark's glasses with a compatible, programmable AI. And a pony.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

ARM devices with general available and useable drivers. I want to install Linux, Android, Windows on any ARM devices fast enough in a similar way it works for x86 devices.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Your second wish already exists. It's made by a company called nexdock. I think you can plug your phone in or run it over bluetooth/WiFi.

https://nexdock.com/

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Something like the Gvido E-Ink tablet for working with sheet music, but without all the proprietary bullshit and closed software.

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