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  • Maybe if they make a watch with a camera cover and a laser that draws a little box around what it can see and it all runs locally, then I might be interested.

    Mainly to identify plants and mushrooms.

    Not a fan of the idea of everyone pointing AI powered cameras at me all the time, like with this weird pin or smart glasses.

    Such products should have a legally mandated camera cover, microphone shutoff and a REALLY OBVIOUS tell to everyone around you if you are using the camera or mic.

    Bonus points if it screams a really loud “PERVERT” alarm if you’re doing something creepy.

    If only that was true for smartphones too…


  • It is kind of interesting how open machine learning already is without much explicit advocacy for it.

    It’s the only field I can think of where the open version is just a few months behind SOTA in all of IT.

    Open training pipelines and open data are the only aspects that could still use improvements in ML, but there are plenty of projects that are near-SOTA and fully open.

    ML is extremely open compared to consumer mobile or desktop apps that are always ~10 years behind SOTA




  • I think you are looking at work horse distros, like Ubuntu, Fedora, etc… That by now are heavily used for productive work, not personal use. So they favor stability and minor quality of life improvements over shiny new updates.

    There’s plenty shiny new cutting edge distros out there that are innovating, e.g. Nix, Silverblue, VanillaOS, all the container focused ones CoreOS, Container OS, Flatcar Container Linux and probably dozens more newer ones I am not aware of .















  • I have a Xiaomi, I love their hardware and the fact that it’s bugged by a foreign nation rather than my own. But Xiaomi software is garbage and flashing is an absolute pain. I looked at what rom support modern Xiaomi devices have and I am not impressed. It’s almost all half baked or not privacy oriented. I’ve been struggling with one of said ROMs for years.

    I am sick of flashing one-off ROMs without proper support or OTA, and constant system level bugs.

    I’d love to have a manufacturer with open-source/open hardware focused cheap high performance repairable hardware and with privacy ROMs as a first-class citizen. Like a Fairphone if it was good.

    But sadly all of these devices end up with bad support too in the end.

    I think the main issue is that most ROM developers today only buy the most high end flagship devices, since those are the only ones that get any decent support. I’m guessing that’s because they all got high paying tech jobs now.