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- Emacs 29 (featuring improvements to the built-in help system)
- NetBSD 10.0 (which has been in development nearly 3 years!)
- The FreeDOS 28th Anniversary Ebook (the working title is Why We Love FreeDOS)
- Long shot: better support for GNU Guix to run on GNU Hurd
Found the foss enthusiast, can't wait for emacs
Continued work on the gnome shell for desktop as well as phosh for mobile. I have no need for most apps on my phone, but I really need access to a stable interface allowing for basic photo, web, and maps functionality. IMO, phosh looks the best out of all the upcoming offerings.
Libcamera development is probably the most exciting thing for me. Phosh is pretty usable as is now and web browsers work fine on Linux mobile, but camera support is a giant mess with v4l2 and having to manually wire up the camera pipelines in a device-specific way. Offloading said mess to a library and having a standard API for applications to use for camera access should allow for easier integration of mobile cameras into apps that already support USB cameras (uvcvideo). I know the PinePhone has partial libcamera integration already (qcam works but not well) and the PinePhone Pro also has partial support as it shows cameras as available but have not been able to get a picture yet.
I'm curious how the foldable Pixel will turn out. Especially if it'll still be so moddable and have a relockable bootloader... Kinda doubt it
If I'm ever to get a folding phone, it would have to be. After my current phone I swore I will never get a phone I can't change the OS on again
A foldable for mobile Linux would be amazing, I love my PinePhone Pro with keyboard case, but you could use a foldable as a mini laptop with a touch keyboard on the bottom half (maybe not the best experience though). Having a bigger screen for doing productivity stuff especially with an external keyboard would be amazing, but I don't want Android anymore.
Regarding the keyboard on the bottom, I can imagine some physical keypad accessory for the bottom half, like what Lenovo is doing with their foldable tablet/laptop thingy, just on a smaller scale.
That's basically what the PinePhone keyboard accessory is. The phone clips into the top half and the bottom half is a physical keyboard. It is essentially a pocket sized laptop. I'm typing on it now and I can actually type much faster on this than any normal touch phone keyboard since you can properly touch type on it.
That looks sweet. Like a Psion 5.
Not what I'd personally have much use for (kinda like using phone in vertical an in-hand), but yea, leave it to small indie companies to come up with important things.
Ed: but I was referring to this where the keyboard can be attached right to the bottom screen.
The rumored Deckard standalone VR headset from Valve sounds exciting.
Technically 2024 but the Apple Vision Pro headset is blowing my mind
Even with that price tag?
A good blow jobs sometimes costs good money.
For new tech like that price point is expected to be high. The key point that I’m excited about their headset is that they ironed out a bunch of problems so now other companies can mirror the solution and lower the cost eventually.
I paid $3000 to build my pc, to be an early adopter of what seems to be groundbreaking tech, sure. Gotta start saving now though lol.
Also, the first iPhone is $40k today unopened. Maybe if you buy Apple's first VR headset and never open it, 10 years later it'll be worth a ton?
Cheaper LTO-7
ROG Ally. Finally a good device which lets me play any of my indie games on my commute. This is important to me as I'm the dad of a 7 week old girl, and my commute is the only time I have for gaming now.
Genuine question, why not Steam Deck? I enjoy playing indie games (Into the Breach, One Step from Eden, Into the Void, etc) on my Steam Deck on bus.
It's not available in Norway, and probably won't be any time soon. I could have it sent to a collection point in Sweden and pick it up there, but then I'd have a lot of trouble dealing with a warrenty claim if something doesn't work.
Sorry to hear that. It makes me thankful that even in a small Asian market like Hong Kong I can get a steam deck through official channel.
I'd definitely have gone with the SteamDeck had it been officially sold here. A more console like experience and the trackpads would have been great for RTS games. Bought a steam controller from a colleague, so at least I can use that for RTS when connecting the ally to a TV.
I cannot overstate how much I love the trackpads on the steam deck, I never had a steam controller (I didn't like the idea of trading other inputs for touchpads) but I'm really happy with them on the Deck
It sucks that they still have so many places they don't ship yet though
Norway is an odd country to miss out. I kinda just assumed they'd released it in every stable European country.
We're a really small non-eu market. I completely understand why they haven't bothered launching it here.
:(
I preordered one. I love my Steam Deck and am interested to see how much better it performs, but I plan on installing Linux (some form of SteamOS) because I really hate Windows. SteamOS is an amazing interface for a handheld and with the Ally running AMD, it should run Linux very well. ETA PRIME did a video on Linux on the Ally and it looks very promising.
MNT Pocket Reform will ship end of year
ThirdParty support for managing PassKeys. Especially the password managers BitWarden and Enpass. Having a main stream pubkey based authentication mechanism will hopefully vastly improve security and reduce ugly attack vectors.
Second gen. Pixel Watch. Not expecting anything groundbreaking tbh, but skipped the first one and have $$$ burning a hole in my pocket.
I want to love a smart watch but i just don't feel like they're worth it tbh
I have the Samsung Watch4 and it's cool and all but the battery life sucks (lasts like a day max) and i don't get any really useful information from it that is accurate enough for me to use
I just ended up using it to see notifications and changing the music but i feel like i could have done that for a lot less than $250.
Is there a use case that i might be missing out on? What do you use them for?
I have a Fitbit versa 3 that I also use for a very limited number of things, but those things are critical for my day to day:
- notifications: my phone is always on vibrate, id never know when I was getting messaged or called without it.
- alarm: I wake up before my partner, who has sleep issues, so it's perfect for that, reliable and unintrusive.
- sleep tracking: I'm not sure I trust the specific numbers (although generally I do think it's pretty accurate), but it is helpful for establishing a baseline and informing me if the reason I feel like garbage is because I didn't get enough sleep or not.
And actually I think that's it. I thought there was more, but that pretty much covers it. Oh also, sometimes helping with calories tracking.
Pebble was one of the good ones. I've gotten an inexpensive one running Android Wear, but I find myself seldom wearing it compared to my dumb watch. I wore my Pebble every day since it could last a damn week or more without charging, and the screen was very pleasant to the eyes.
Haha I feel that. My Casio digital watch is all i use nowadays
Charging is too much of a hassle for me for what i get in return