Asklemmy

A high-quality dumb TV.

Get your ads (and security vulnerabilities) out of my damn house.

The snooze button on my alarm clock needs to actually pause time, so I can sleep until I'm not tired anymore.

A high end phone with a headphone jack and Linux that works with banking apps.

A small and lightweight smartphone with high end specs, especially tele camera, and a privacy respecting OS such as GrapheneOS

Probably all of those devices that can help fight climate change the news keeps talking about at least once a month.

You know how Ctrl+F helps you find specific words in browsers? I want that in real life.

Maybe some special glasses with this ability built-in?

does this count?

I would love to have an open, hackable, linux-based eBook reader.

Just an open source e-ink device with the build quality of a Kindle. Nothing fancy.

A sleeping pod for home.

Imagine as you go to sleep it is perfect temperature for you no need for open windows or extra blankets. You just turn the dial and it adjusts it or maybe it even have a curve so that you love for it start cold but wake up warm.

It is pitch black, no need to try block out any light.

It completely soundproof even if you live middle of the city. But it also have speakers just in case you like something in background as you sleep.

Instachill, microwave oven for cooling.

A house hold device that can diagnose most sicknesses with a drop of blood or saliva

screws that don't strip

I want an extremely low power laptop for programming. Slow processor, e-ink screen with a low refresh rate. I want 24 hours battery life with a solar charger to sit outside and program.

Niche, but I want it. It would look like a blank book, with pages that feel like paper. I'd be able to download whatever text I wanted, and read it like an old fashioned book. You'd be able to change the text as many times as you wanted to.

A reverse microwave. I can heat a cup of coffee in 30 seconds, I want to chill a beer in 30 seconds.

Empathy cannon.

A mute button for people.

nano dentist chews

you just choose a flavor and chew; it fixes everything after baby teeth

I want a mid-range phone with a great camera and a telephoto lens.

I don't need no AI bullshit, I don't do gaming, I don't need 32 gigs of ram on a phone.

I just wanna take great pictures.

I would like a flagship spec (especially RAM, give me all the RAM possible) phone with a small screen and a massive battery life; sacrificing other components to put a big battery. One small camera is enough for me, I don't need 3 cameras on the back of my phone. I would also get a small, single speaker to save internal space, and remove the haptic system entirely in exchange for a larger battery.

I wouldn't sacrifice the headphone jack though, I hate using dongles.

I want an orbital laser weapon that targets people who drive like insane maniacs or raging assholes.

A small screen phone with Linux OS that I can plug into a docking station and use it as a desktop pc. It would replace all of my devices.

A brain implant that I can store a short memo in. I have a very bad working memory so it would be incredible to somehow store lists/numbers longer than 4 items in my head without hacking it by whispering the list to myself over and over.

Literally just an android phone, but it comes pre-rooted and one of the system apps is a scripting language, similar to how the TI-83 comes with TI-BASIC. It's bullshit that we're carrying these powerful super-computers everywhere but with less user empowerment then a mid-tier calculator.

(yes, I know you can root your phone and install termux and python but I want that to be the default)

Devices with a week of battery life. I don't care how low spec they are, I want to be able to go a few days without having to worry about charging.

Since we're just talking fantasy: a device that can scan my brain and tell me exactly what medications would help me and be able to issue my a prescription without having to talk to a million doctors.

Something that lists my tasks automatically and displays them in order in my HUD like an objective icon in a videogame. Could be made combining goblin.tools with smart glasses or AR glasses.

This would help me a lot. I have ADHD and a bit of executive dysfunction, and having a constant reminder in my vision would help me staying on track of what I need to do.

Robot that could completely clean my house while I'm at work.

That would save me so much time.

Bonus points if it could also cook healthy meals.

A display with a transparent screen and then behind the transparent screen is an eink display.

When I wanted the eink mode the screen goes completely transparent and only uses the eink display. When I want a full colour high resolution display the ink goes black and the transparent display displays the colour content. Best of both worlds.

If transparent displays are cheap enough that they put them on fridges at the supermarket, clearly they've come down in costs enough for consumer electronics.

A modern smartphone (good battery, screen, etc.) running an alternative OS (like Linux or OpenBSD) with the ability to run Android (or iOS) apps I unfortunately need to use.

I recently switched to a Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS and while it's nice, I still really hate the locked down nature of Android (and iOS).

If nobody else wants it, I guess I'll claim the time machine. With a money printer on the front, please. Thanks!

An American high speed train. Also, a machine that instantly dries you off after a shower.

• Microwave freezer
• Feature phone with all of : keypad, high-resolution screen and camera, headphone jack, dual sim, WLAN, reasonable RAM, and expandable ~memory~ storage. I can find phones with some of these, but not all.

Edit: I knew what I meant /s

Gun from Portal.

A toilet that can plunge and snake itself.

• Open source motherboards
• Open source modems for computers and phones
• Open source cars
• GrapheneOS phone with enough RAM to run a decent offline LLM
• Offline AI privacy/network manager designed to white noise the stalkerware standards of the shitternet with a one click setup
• Real AI hardware designed for tensor math using standard DIMM system memory with many slots and busses in parallel instead of bleeding edge monolithic GPU stuff targeting a broad market. The bottle neck in the CPU structure is the L2 to L1 cache bus width and transfer rate with massive tensor tables that all need to run at one time. System memory is great for its size but its size is only possible because of the memory controller that swaps out a relatively small chunk that is actually visible to the CPU. This is opposed to a GPU where there is no memory controller and the memory size is directly tied to the compute hardware. This is the key difference we need to replicate. We need is a bunch of small system memory sticks where the chunk normally visible to the CPU is all that is used and a bunch of these sticks on their own busses running to the compute hardware. Then older, super cheap system memory could be paired with ultra cheap trailing edge compute hardware to make cheaper AI that could run larger models, (at the cost of more power consumption). Currently larger than 24GBV GPUs are pretty much unobtainium, like an A6000 at 48GBV will set you back at least $4k. I want to run a 70B or greater. That would need ~140GBV to run super fast on dedicated optimised hardware. There is already an open source offline 180B model, and that would need ~360GBV for near instantaneous response. While super speeds with these large models is not needed for basic LLM prompting, it makes a big difference with agents where the model needs to do a bunch of stuff seamlessly while still appearing to work in realtime conversationally.

Privacy-respecting thought-controlled AR+VR smart contact lenses that correct my eyesight, block out UV, can somehow project sound into my brain, overlay people's names and basic info when I see them and don't remember (or make me remember thanks to the brain interface), and let me browse the internet and work on stuff without using my hands because RSI :(