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A way of disabling "AI overview" and llm "Shop assistants" that inject themselves into my view across every website that I visit.

open source drivers for all common graphics and networking cards. these currently need binary blobs in linux to work

Something (app whatever) that divines the "evil" in all the things I need to buy, for me, without me having to do research on who has sold out, who is supporting killing babies, who is killing the rainforests, who is using child slave labour to extract their products etc etc. It's fucking exhausting and monotonous, you can't just check once, you gotta click refresh every bloody day. It's doing my head in. I just want to buy stuff that I can eat etc, that isn't tainted in others blood. Fuck this timeline, I can't wait till it corrects itself, shit gunna be glorious. I'll be there with some ethically sourced popcorn and a Molotov.

a Social Network that uses usb flash drive

instead of the web it is that people physically exchange flash drives to share content

it just needs 1 thing: not having to manage configs or directory on the flash drive

I want to be able to click a download link and it automatically starts the download in jdownloader instead of the browser downloader

An open source, cross platform self paced learning app which gives you quizzes, text documents to read in a similar format to Wikipedia pages or Kinnu info slides, automatically revolving cards of text to glance at, a resizable and responsive UI that allows you to put it anywhere and still be useful, and an assistant to clarify information, chat with, and assist in creating documents to run in the app by using documents you feed it, which can be things like course work for uni or school, or informal self interests.

I have in fact wrote an app in python last year for a programming class that does the responsive UX design, the revolving text, and has a fair amount of settings (such as dark/light mode switching, text colour customisation, the ability for the window to be always on top and to remove the title bar when needed, and to import CSV files into the program to be part of the text reading database). I plan to continue adding features because I see it as a worthwhile endeavour since it assisted me in other highschool classes, and expanding it and making it available to anyone would be cool as hell.

Also everything will be locally ran because fuck the cloud, fuck SaaS and fuck tools that require internet to function.

Fully featured Open source drivers for all popular devices. RINA implementations for all major platforms and architectures.

Homescreen widget for my phone thats actually just a tamagotchi. Maybe it already exists and I just havent looked for it.

Having to open the app and shit is already too much hassle. But if its alive in the corner whenever I turn my phone on I'd love it.

Maybe? Connect it to the step-counter so it knows if its been a walk that day, or to earn food/medicine whatever? Already sounds overdeveloped.

Regular tamagotchi please.

A Rockstar version of Starfield/Fallout/Elderscrolls

Bethesda has become so goddamned lazy in their game mechanic design. Its 2026..an NPC should be at least smart enough to know I'm still fucking there if I leave their field of view.

Or whether I've already joined and completed their mortal enemies quest line and behave accordingly towards me as a result...

Or even just realising that of your company just got hacked, even if you didn't witness it, it might have something to do with the stranger that was fucking around in your server room...

Or at least react when I bump into them...

I dearly love Bethesda's open worlds. I love the settings, the stories etc... There are no games I would rather "live in", for lack of a better word. But those worlds deserve far far better NPC/faction mechanics

A phone app that automatically accepts calls from suspected scam numbers, robocalls and unknown numbers and immediately mutes the mic, keeping the call going until the machine on the other side of the line disconnects and marks my number as non-working.

This has been how I've gone down from multiple spam calls a week to just a few a year. I'd really like to automate that.

Nice try, open source developers who want to make the world a better place.

A peer-to-peer prediction market where instead of betting on forest fires, we bet on datacenter fires and mansion fires.