Post by @rl_dane@polymaths.social

@rl_dane
I'd be happy with a computer on my wrist, if the designer had the mindset of someone from the '80s instead of now. I feel a proper "smartwatch" should be independent and not rely on your phone to function. I want a personal computer, not a terminal, on my wrist, with buttons, not a touchscreen, water proofing to at least 100m (my current digital watch is 200m though), and I want at least 6 months of battery life (if not the 2 years I get now)...

@ddlyh

There's projects like the sensor watch, which is a driver board for the popular (I forget the model) cheapo #Casio watch that everyone likes, that uses that watches' LCD and case/band.

There are other casio board-swap projects, as well. Not incredibly useful, as they re-use the limited LCD of the existing watch, but kinda neat.

Other than coolness factor, I don't know what an independent computer on my wrist would be good for, tbh.

@rl_dane
I don't really want sensors. I want a wrist communicator (of course - wrist communicators are a staple of sci-fi and also kids TV in the late 80s/early 90s) but I also want notes and other PDA stuff. Games would be nice too. But all low-res, because there needs to be space for buttons and I don't want too big a watch. And a compass. Maybe even a GNSS speedo, though that would make batteries hard. Other than the communicator, this should all run locally without a network connection.

@ddlyh

I just couldn't imagine trying to do all of that on a 2" device. My eyes aren't good enough up-close. 🤓

@rl_dane compronise: I like terminal apps for Android, because it lets me feel like I truly get use a real computer that just happens to have a phone form

@synlogic4242

I literally use a shell script (calling #ImageMagick) vi #termux to do PNG optimizations on my phone, because I refused to use the slop-coded app I was using for that any longer.

The cool thing is that it's set up where I just share the image to termux, it launches the shell script, which asks me a couple questions (# of colors, dither?), and then exits and gives me the result.

@rl_dane@polymaths.social @synlogic4242@vivaldi.net that is a neat idea!

Stealing it ;-)

@paul @rl_dane @synlogic4242

I use #imagepipe, which can be shared to but only does two things: rescale and remove exif.

https://codeberg.org/Starfish/Imagepipe

@leffe @paul @synlogic4242

I like ImagePipe. I just wish it did #AVIF. I used to use Image Toolbox for conversions, as it has tons of features, but it's very slop-py.

@leffe@social.linux.pizza @rl_dane@polymaths.social @synlogic4242@vivaldi.net nice! what else do we need from a mobile image processing app anyway!? :-)

It does cropping too... this may be useful!

@paul @leffe @synlogic4242

ImagePipe can also do scaling, which is nice. I use a combination of Fossify Gallery and the AOSP (or Lineage??) Gallery for cropping and useful filters (like brightness/contrast), respectively.

@paul @leffe @synlogic4242

Oh derp, leffe already mentioned scaling. 🤭

@rl_dane The big problem I have with turning everything into a computer is not that we're turning everything into computers, but that our computers are getting increasingly less computer-y

@OpenComputeDesign

Lemme drop that mic for ya, fam. 😄

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