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.
Rootable Android (or Linux) based “mp3 player”. Basically an iPod touch. No cell radio.
I might struggle to make it the size of an iPod Touch but that’s not difficult to build out of a Raspberry Pi.
That’s cool, hadn’t really thought about it. Basically looking for a wifi-only device I can install Signal on.
You’d get the desktop version of Signal doing it that way.
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.
Yeah I usually think of the Raspberry Pi as a box for running Debian on.
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.
Why couldn’t you just use a custom launcher? This isn’t a hard task.
I’m amazed I can’t find such a thing on AliExpress.