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What are some tech products that you want that you can't seem to find? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Literally couldn't fall asleep last night, thinking about how much I'd want this and how hard it'd be to neuter a cellphone to make this.

[–] WagyuSneakers@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why couldn't you just use a custom launcher? This isn't a hard task.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Let me preface this by saying that, compared to your average Lemmy user, I am not a technical person. What stuck in my head was removing the radio and comms tech completely - no cell radio, no wifi, no GPS. Literally just make it an average cellphone sized offline tablet, where you're adding stuff only via the USB port or SD card slot.

Assuming this were possible/actually worth it, would probably need custom firmware to actually make it useable anyway. Just taking an off the shelf smartphone and using a custom launcher would likely be the more practical route, but I'd be more interested if it was offline only from a pure hardware perspective.

But I digress - I just thought it was funny to see this when it seriously was the "What if?" that made it hard for me to get to sleep the other day.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I'm amazed I can't find such a thing on AliExpress.