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.

      • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
        3·
        13 hours ago

        That’s cool, hadn’t really thought about it. Basically looking for a wifi-only device I can install Signal on.

          • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
            1·
            12 hours ago

            Nah. With an Android device, you can install the Signal app (it’s even on FDroid now). You’ll need a phone number to register it, but just to receive the code. Could be a mobile number you have, a landline, or a VoIP (ie, jmp.chat) number-- as long as you haven’t already registered for Signal with it.

            A Linux device could pose some difficulty, but I think there is progress being made on running Android apps.

            Edit: sorry, forgot some of the context here. Leaving it since I’m pretty sure you can install Android on a RasPi.

        • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          4 hours 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.