What are some tech products that you want that you can't seem to find?
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Camera-less small phone with a keyboard and an IR blaster
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Global Xperias (Xperia 1 VI [XQ-EC72]) fits most of this.
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I have a GPD Win Max 2 (2024 model). Battery lasts for 8-10 hours of work (coding, some browsing, occasional video) and it can run Cyberpunk with Raytracing. It's an absolutely amazing little device.
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I don't wear a watch but if it fixes the problem, might be worth looking in to.
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Lol, I'm gonna say no as I posted in a technology news community in response to news about Tesla trucks not being tech news just by virtue of being Tesla or musk related. OP was not happy.
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Holy shit. Thank you for bringing pebble to my attention.
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I want a Japanese ketai phone with android 10+, easily rootable, AND HAS A DAMN TOUCH CRUISER. They day Sharp decided to stop making flip phones with touch cruiser is the day innovation truly died.
Or an e-ink flip phone, that would be pretty cool.
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No problem, have been on the search for a good replacement for a few years.... Ever since destroying mine on a door frame when carrying a heavy box
I miss my pebble time
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Do bear in mind that not all banks and/or cards are supported. Out of my 6 payment cards, over 3 banks (I know, ridiculous), only 3 are compatible. One bank is not compatible at all, the other one supports the debit card on Garmin Pay but not the credit card.
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I want an open source cellular baseband chip. That's the chip that acts as a networking connection to cell phone towers. Not only would the drivers be open, but the hardware as well. It might be a little larger than most, as I would want it to be possible for users to dismantle it (destructively, of course) and verify against tampering.
Bunnie Huang's Precursor was a good start, but it lacks networking (as far as I know)
(Are crowdsourcing links allowed? I'm not going to link to the crowdsupply page, just in case, but it is more informative)
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It's why I like hybrids. I have a tendency to sometimes end up at least an hour away from an electric plug for a few days or so.
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That's fair. I'm less interested in the swasticar and more I find it's the only thing out right now that I can't find an appreciable workaround.
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Hmm.... The one I've seen; hisense for example its non touch, and the monitor is 1500 bucks.... I've seen a big white board like thing at a local library and some schools, unsure what they are called or how much they cost.
A quick search revealed the below but that is crazy expensive. I would then rather get a traditional white board with a marker and then take photos with a phone or camera and store in a hard drive....
Not the same I guess...QuirkLogic Papyr - A large 42-inch E Ink display designed specifically as a digital whiteboard. Priced around $6,000-7,000.
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RICOH eWhiteboard 4200 - A 42-inch E Ink collaborative whiteboard, similar price range to the QuirkLogic.
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Yeah no you are right. I waited a couple years for pine64 tablet to become a commercially available project then gave up...then used paper and pencil a nd took photos everyday of my notes pages and manually stored them.... But after a few notebooks my backup was getting large and tagging pages with text tags was getting annoying so Now I use go10.3 which wasn't as expensive as some of the other ones like remarkable paper pro or boox tab ultra C pro..... I use that offline. Copy things and docs via USB from laptop, and backup things manually and copy back into laptop manually....
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Does your average non technical user who wants a device like this care if it's not the highest quality screen?
The demographic that is just Apple fanboys and they weren't giving up their overpriced garbage no matter what.
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You're thinking about it too hard.
Just use a launcher, sometimes called Kiosk mode/launchers, to launch one app. You can disable the other hardware if you want, but it doesn't seem like it really helps you reach your goal.
You could probably pull it off with a Pi Zero, battery pack, and screen if you want to get into it a bit. It's not that hard at all.
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Probably - thought about it harder anyway (see: actually read stuff), and the closest you can probably get to what I was thinking about with your average smartphone is disconnecting and terminating all connections to the antennas.
Let's be real, though - if I actually intended to use something like this, it'd for sure be something cobbled together using an SBC like the Pi Zero.
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It's not uncommon to just disable hardware you don't intent to use. You don't have to do it mechanically. There's a lot of kiosks around that have a lot more capabilities than they're used for.
If you're looking to do it with a Pi, banana, orange or raspberry, let me know. I've spent way too much time finding the perfect screen to use and case to print. I build a rechargeable handheld device that can pull up all my surveillance cameras and functions as a master remote.
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I didn't specify "non technical" as I'd actually like one like it myself and would consider myself at least moderately tech-savvy.
That said i would say that yes, even non technical users would appreciate a high quality screen. They admittedly probably wouldn't know to look out for it at purchase or what to look out for on a spec sheet, but in my opinion they would appreciate it during use (more so than some extra unneeded performance)
The demographic that is just Apple fanboys and they weren’t giving up their overpriced garbage no matter what.
Yes, apple fanboys will be fanboys, but the M-series Macbook Airs are imo are just a really great piece of hardware. Particularly the M1 when it came out and even nowadays imo is even priced decently for what it offers.
So far i don't know a good non-Apple alternative that manages to fully match the M1 Macbook Air features (sans the non-upgradable storage that Apple charges way to much for and that destroys most of the value proposition).
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My DBA has had the same two monitors for a decade and most of the devs just use whatever monitor was on sale.
Technical people are not the people buying Macs. Mac has its place and it hasn't been technical folks since TPM chips and WSL.
If like to see what you think the "features" are that can't be replaced. Literally every single feature of a Mac is implemented better with Windows or Windows with WSL. "It's closer to Linux" No, Linux is closer to Linux and I can't dual boot or WSL on Apple silicone. "Muh security" TPM is 10x more practical and slightly beats out Enclave in performance. "Muh hardware" if you spend that much money on any laptop it'll perform well. If you spend that much on a Windows laptop you'd get even better hardware. You could build multiple Linux machines that each outperform the Mac for the same price. "It just works" I have had multiple hours long troubleshooting call with a Jr Engineer that proves otherwise. "Muh package manager" if you struggle with this, you're not technical. "Muh iOS dev" iOS/Android apps can be tested in a pipeline or through the myriad of tools like Device Farm. Ship it with Fastlane and call it a day. You can handle both app stores this way.
Why do you want a Mac? The only valid choices are aesthetics, brand loyalty or ignorance.
