What are some tech products that you want that you can't seem to find?
-
The ODROID-HC4 has two SATA ports. Alternatively, you can get one with an NVMe slot and stick a NVMe to SATA card in it that will likely get you four ports.
-
A phone with a 5-5.5" screen. I'd be fine with a midrange chipset and camera. The Zenfone 10 was the last one that even came closer but they would only support it for two years and locked the bootloader (and lied about the unlock service eventually coming back online).
-
https://www.amazon.fr/ORICO-daccueil-magnétique-Adaptateur-Compatible/dp/B07QD5DXV2
there is this ^ thing for 130, which is more expensive that what you mentioned but seems to fit your criteria moreso than what you mentioned
-
A 3.5mm-to-Bluetooth adapter that can do simultaneous headphones + mic. I have a device with no Bluetooth, only a 3.5mm TRRS jack (headphones+mic). I want to connect it to a wireless Bluetooth headset but the only adapters I can find won't do both at the same time, only one or the other.
-
I'd like some PC support for HDMI CEC
My use case is a bit niche, my PC is hooked up to my TV and AV receiver.
My tv, av receiver, and even certain game consoles all talk to each other well enough through CEC controls that I can do a lot from a single remote, and not even a fancy pants universal remote, just the one that came out of the box with my tv. It was a little mind-blowing when I realized I can more or less navigate the menus on my PS4 with my TV remote. The TV remote turns up the volume on the AV receiver, most of the inputs on the receiver, depending on what's hooked up to them, will come up on my TVs input menu, the TV will wake up the PlayStation when I go to that input, etc.
I'm aware that CEC is a bit of a mess with how different companies implement it, but personally I've been lucky and a lot of it has worked pretty much out of the box for me.
Mostly I just want the volume controls on my keyboard to control the volume on my AV receiver.
I recently got a pulse eight dongle that I think in theory will let me do that, but it's not exactly the most intuitive thing to configure.
-
-
-
-
-
Remember when MP3 players were a thing? Well I still listen to mp3 files, but I can't put them on my smartphone because manufacturers artificially reduce storage size on phones to force people to use cloud services, and the available mp3 players that accept microSD cards are remarkably bad in many ways. It makes me pessimistic about tech in general, there is no sense of humanism or building progress, that in the future the products will be easier or better. Based on current trends, it seems like in the future the tech will just be more exploitative and consumers are just captive at this point.
-
Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon seems like it's trying to compete with the Air.
-
I hadn't looked at any ODROID stuff, and the HC4 is a cool looking solution! I'm actually even more impressed with the M1S, which has a built-in M.2 slot. Can't use my existing spinny drives, but for the price of the M1S, I could pick up an NVMe drive to go with it.
-
I'm jealous of my friend's workstation that has an easily accessible filter in front of the case fans
-
I have an iPod that I use for music and I love it. I could put Rockbox on it so I don't need iTunes, but I do really love the stock firmware.
Anyway, point is, my 2nd gen iPod mini has 128gb of microSD storage and is the best portable DAP I've ever owned.
-
there are sticker packs for that, called "light stickers" or whatever
-
there are multiple phones without camera notches, the sony ones with just a thicker top bezel, the redmagic's with an under-display one and some of the older ones with popup cameras
-
Reliable software. It's a thing of the past.
-
Another option would be to get a RPi and throw a hat on it:
-
If you don't need much power, you could probably look for something used and get a good deal on a 17" laptop.
-
