ElCheapo

Screenless smartphones could totally be viable as a product, especially for visually impaired folks.

The problem is only one: PROPRIETARY APPLICATIONS

Could you write a custom and simplified Facebook Messenger client that would allow clear and complete navigation through hardware buttons or vocal commands? Abso-fucking-lutely!

Can you do it without Facebook's approval which will never come? Abso-fucking-lutely not!

and who's designing and manufacturing and programming the accelerators needed for those algorithms to perform close to real time?

Your post is only partially correct. Even with completely open firmware, or at least a documented interface, the biggest roadblock would become be abysmal state of OSS digital image processing. Engineers at major smartphone and camera companies are paid top dollar to improve how the images are processed, this is no laughing matter and is obvious when you compare the image quality from a no-name chinese brand with Samsung or Apple even though they are using the same exact sensors.

FOSS smartphones such as the Pinephone would then need a whole bunch of accelerators to perform such computations because the general purpose CPU would be too slow for that, and image could take seconds to finish processing and get saved in the gallery. But at that point Pinephone itself would not have enough expertise for such a design and everything would crumble.

Why not have 8 billion entries for each and every one of us? If you remove any popularity boundary then this is the only logical conclusion

It boggles your mind that people find surprise and adventure exciting? Do you also think digital painting has superseded actual brushes?

The world is ready, perhaps too ready, to solve their problems with a pill.

The real question is, is the world ready for fixing our lifestyles instead of searching for a panacea of pills?

I already told you this is not what I asked. Your replies are all over the place and I sincerely am not understanding them.

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wow, you edited your whole long form reply and just replaced it with "I'm not a bot"? That's such a misleading and dishonest thing to do for everyone reading these posts from now onwards

You told me human endeavors in which "diversity" (which again, means nothing) fosters innovation. But that wasn't my question. I asked what kind of diversity fosters innovation, not what kind of innovation is fostered by diversity

Didn't know skin pigment contributed to innovation.

"Diversity" is empty HR speak, please specify which kind of diversity fosters innovation.

what has emulation got to do with not paying for the games?

Well, seems like this is a clear path for improvement: a decent UI tool for migration between instances

Problem is: they can't watch movies in their browser because they can only leech from people who are seeding from a webtorrent client.

Let's say I have a movie I want to let other people stream with their browser. I am obligated to use some javascript horror webtorrent-compatible client. If I already have a seedbox running transmission I simply cannot use that for this purpose, which is a shame

Still no support for webtorrents, making it impossible to use it for helping to lighten the load of my favorite peertube VODs :(

*look down to pay respects*

correlation is not causation, unless you have an agenda

A) group 1 gets an omnivore diet, group 2 gets the same diet but substitutes all the meat with "meat replacements"

B) group 1 gets an omnivore diet, group 2 gets a vegan diet

those are two different experiments

That's not what the abstract says.

They're specifically talking about foods which are claimed to be meat replacements.

If you have an all-encompassing and well varied vegan diet then this study doesn't really say anything about your situation

And every time people are advised to keep a local copy. I have a bunch of stuff on an Amazon Glacier account for convenience, but I still keep an HDD in the closet

You should make noise because, unless you signed some particular contract, the code is your intellectual property and it's illegal to just take it away from you.

I bought Stadia and read the contract, I was under no illusion that I could export save files or progress to other platforms. You don't own the games you play, if you cared you'd buy from GoG.

I don't beg for my hobbies, that sounds more like an addiction

You're getting old and you don't know about the Muppets?

Try "bumping the font size up" in Thunderbird and tell me how nicely it scales on your TV

Let us be fair here

Why even say this if you immediately proceed by not being fair?

Pocketable computers are not a "fantasy" in the sense that there aren't any devices capable of running a desktop OS while being pocketable. This was never the argument, as also demonstrated by my other replies in the thread. My argument is that using a pocketable device as a desktop or laptop is a fantasy. It's something that sounds very cool on paper and which has a small cult following, but in reality all these people would fare even better if someone wrote an Android app tailored to their use case.

How is the presence of an antenna in any way demonstrative of the general purpose computing capabilities of the N900 as opposed to "not pocketable PC" Androids? I believe that if I were to attach a USB radio module to my phone I could write an Android app to make use of it as a trasmitter.

Your reply is baffling.

First you say that with "android" (as if they made hardware) you can't have an integrated keyboard.

Then you say that Android phones with a full integrated keyboard actually exist.

But then you move the goalpost saying that they aren't open source/hardware. Which is false, by the way, since this device [https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/pro1] runs LineageOS, and phones with completely free software down to the firmware level don't exist, including the N900 which needs a binary blob to start the wifi module (as far as I know) and whose hardware is not open source in the slightest.

And even after all of this I've been given zero use cases that an Android phone can't provide with the proper application installed.

What is stopping you from adapting AOSP to have better keyboard integration? Android has been modified before to adapt to folding screens, tablets and multiple screens.

Was my post confusing? Nothing you've written can't be done with an Android phone with a keyboard attachment. When is this super important general purpose computing thingy supposed to come into play?

GP adapted the the form factor to his needs.

My point is that drastic I/O adaptation almost always require UI/UX adaptations, which doesn't happen with these enthusiast projects.

Home theater nowadays has no similarity with the interface needs of cable/satellite TV, so why would you be hung up on using the same remote control interface?

Because that's what people use. If we went by some "blank slate" argument then we could make a ton of things possible, but that's not what this problem is about. Additionally, even if you had a keyboard+touchpad combo, would you rather use your TV from your couch with GNOME or XFCE or would you prefer Kodi's interface?

I used the Machintosh example because the use case you're talking about is a completely old fashioned way of intending "portable computing". Portable computing currently means being able to take your device out of your pocket and being able to use it on the go. The Intel stick certainly has its uses, but are unrelated from the topic at hand and strikes me as just an excuse to share something you do that you think is cool.

Using Linux on a TV is not the same as using a TV as a general computing device. You still use it as a media consumption machine, and that's why you've been able to set it up accordingly. Now what if I asked you to set up your TV to do everything I do on my general purpose laptop or desktop computer? It would suck, plain and simple.