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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My unicorn phone would be one that is both small enough to use with one hand (currently have a Zenfone 10 largely for this reason) and has a secondary camera lens that's a telephoto rather than an ultra ultra wide.

It bugs me that phones with a long lens are so comparatively rare, it's always just wide (verging on ultrawide) as default and when a second lens is added it's even wider again because people love distortions or taking photos in tiny rooms or something. Sometimes I just want to take a photo of something further away than a few metres and actually have it visible without zooming in, I'd even take a normal lens FoV as an improvement over ultrawide. Those phones that do have one tend to have it as a third lens and also tend to be huge, so get disqualified by the 'usable with one hand' criteria even before I reach the massively expensive part.

I'd also like an Instax back for the Hasselblad V series that was cheap enough that I could actually justify the cost of buying (say ~$200 AUD or less) though I will admit that's a pretty niche thing to be after.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Direct replacement for the wonderful Facebook PortalTV unit. Its digital pan and zoom to follow a speaker is excellent. It could start and end calls completely hands-free before meta killed the service to which voice control was tethered. It sits on top of the TV, it does its job, and does it well.

Now that it's abandonware by Facebook, I need something else before its hardware dies. I have 4 of these in the field and some of them are with remote geriatrics who have no tech support, and it has to work.

I'm gonna miss it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

An app like Shazam but that shows me : this is the song you played and these are the songs it reminds you of because the melody is from here and the vocals melody is from here etc. I am mad that every other song reminds me of another but I cannot check which one it is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't know if it's possible but it feels like a cheap box for (sata) hard drives would be super useful for people having a bunch of old drives. The only ones I can find are top of the line expensive NAS or DAS stuff for say 2 to 4 large drives, not my 7 drives from 500GB to 2TB...

I use a 5โ‚ฌ sata-usb connector but it's not very practical, a usb hub + 7 of these connectors would cost like 40โ‚ฌ ... Not reliable or anything but it would just need a box!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

A laptop with trackpad buttons

Lenovo is the only one I can find, and they're above the pad for the nub

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

A small android smartphone with good software support

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Water bottle that auto seals and is easy to clean.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

A SEGA Dreamcast

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

An drone that act as an ambrella

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

A Steam Deck with stock pricing in Mexico.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Magnetic audio cable break-aways

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A physical slide out keyboard case for iPhone.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Reliable software. It's a thing of the past.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A phone that runs Linux, has decent battery life, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

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