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Open source devices will become more mainstream as a push back by consumers against enshitifcation, privacy invasion, disposable products, ever rising subscription costs.
Not just things like phones and laptops but things like mice, keyboards, headphones, even tvs and kitchen appliances. I know some of these are possible now, I use a ploppy trackball and qmk based keyboards but a wider spread of these across the home and more than just hobbyists like myself.
Large chunks will be 3D printed, moving the large component parts of manufacting to the local area. Plus things will be endlessly fixable and upgradable.
The thing is, injection molding is just dummy cheap at scale. If you have a significant run of open source hardware it still makes sense.
Chips are also pretty impossible to make at small scale, so you have to account for that. To date it's possible to find a decent chipset, but I worry it might not always be.
All of which is true but it doesn't matter if the product is crippled by the designer. Whole point of my model is that you are the designer so its only shit if you are.
Yeah, I'm not saying proprietary enshittified hardware is good, lol.
And I think that at some point enough people will have had enough that they take on production of that themselves via open source projects.
Sure, some will always be driven by cost, thats never going to change, but self sustainability will become more desirable as main stream brands, not just temu tat, drops in quality.
Everyone has a powerful computer in their pockets but isn't able to use them to their full potential.
Android Desktop is actually pretty nice, the thing that makes it useless is that basically no android apps have desktop mode or hotkeys and mouse support (Chrome is half-assed and Firefox is wearing assless chaps) plus a lot of standard I-just-want-linux things are going to be wonky. If you're considing buying any hard-ware for the purpose of Android Desktop, you're almost always better off buying a laptop at the same $100-$400 price.
By true android desktop I mean it would let you download linux apps and run them. It's a faked mobile experience in dex right now and that seems to be the initial direction they are going with android desktop, still not terrible, but not a pc experience. This isn't about buying hardware, this is about letting people use the hardware they already have, building on the personal computer in your pocket aspect.
Some people seem to be confused thinking i'm implying the current form of android desktop. I'm saying its possible they shift towards it being a proper desktop experience instead of just mobile apps reframed. Phones have the capabilities to be the personal computer for most ppl and a lot of ppl can only afford one device. Most of the world has a phone no pc, now if android could give all those ppl access to a pc, all they need is the phone they already have plus a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, that would give ppl a strong incentive to stay with and stick to android, since its not just their phone, its their pc now, its their whole life.
I think a phone might light on fire if you try to use it like a Linux desktop
Check out what emulators can do on modern android devices
old netbooks/laptops with less power can run linux fine, your phone is prob capable of a lot more than you think it is, you can already run linux using some workarounds
It just makes sense to me to make android phones the all in 1, now your phone is actually also your computer, much better than trying to sell chromebooks and make that work
Im forsure delusional with schools tho theyll prob sell them chromebooks forever
This is already a thing
Samsung DeX was the first big one but there are a bunch of competing ones that do similar things now.
its just android reskinned sadly, not actually using linux desktop, sure its decent for multitasking but its just android apps reframed still
Can’t you just use GNURoot Debian and XServer SDL to get a Linux desktop env on any Android phone?
There’s an xda-developers guide on this and the two apps are still in the Google Play Store, so I assume it’s still feasible.
I’m not sure how well it plays with DeX and other similar solutions, though.
That’s assuming the apps aren’t capable enough to handle being used on a desktop on their own, of course. What sorts of gaps did you see, and in which sorts of apps?
always workarounds for technical ppl, itd be completely different if it was built into android tho and came with an update to existing phones
It makes no sense to think about the future of technology while ignoring one of the biggest technological developments to date. Whatever you think of AI, it's necessarily going to shape every aspect of technological development going forward.
One example I can give you off top of my head is that traditional user interfaces will likely be going away. There's no need to have a complex UI the user has to learn to navigate when you can just use language to describe what you want. You will just ask the agent to find whatever information you need, and present it in a specific way to you. Think of it as having a personal secretary who compiles information for you, and makes presentations.
I personally don't care about AI and am tired of hearing about this, I made this post and specifically put no AI to hear about anything else