ElCheapo

Screenless smartphones could totally be viable as a product, especially for visually impaired folks.

The problem is only one: PROPRIETARY APPLICATIONS

Could you write a custom and simplified Facebook Messenger client that would allow clear and complete navigation through hardware buttons or vocal commands? Abso-fucking-lutely!

Can you do it without Facebook's approval which will never come? Abso-fucking-lutely not!

and who's designing and manufacturing and programming the accelerators needed for those algorithms to perform close to real time?

Your post is only partially correct. Even with completely open firmware, or at least a documented interface, the biggest roadblock would become be abysmal state of OSS digital image processing. Engineers at major smartphone and camera companies are paid top dollar to improve how the images are processed, this is no laughing matter and is obvious when you compare the image quality from a no-name chinese brand with Samsung or Apple even though they are using the same exact sensors.

FOSS smartphones such as the Pinephone would then need a whole bunch of accelerators to perform such computations because the general purpose CPU would be too slow for that, and image could take seconds to finish processing and get saved in the gallery. But at that point Pinephone itself would not have enough expertise for such a design and everything would crumble.

Why not have 8 billion entries for each and every one of us? If you remove any popularity boundary then this is the only logical conclusion

It boggles your mind that people find surprise and adventure exciting? Do you also think digital painting has superseded actual brushes?

The world is ready, perhaps too ready, to solve their problems with a pill.

The real question is, is the world ready for fixing our lifestyles instead of searching for a panacea of pills?

I already told you this is not what I asked. Your replies are all over the place and I sincerely am not understanding them.

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wow, you edited your whole long form reply and just replaced it with "I'm not a bot"? That's such a misleading and dishonest thing to do for everyone reading these posts from now onwards

You told me human endeavors in which "diversity" (which again, means nothing) fosters innovation. But that wasn't my question. I asked what kind of diversity fosters innovation, not what kind of innovation is fostered by diversity

Didn't know skin pigment contributed to innovation.

"Diversity" is empty HR speak, please specify which kind of diversity fosters innovation.

what has emulation got to do with not paying for the games?

Well, seems like this is a clear path for improvement: a decent UI tool for migration between instances

Problem is: they can't watch movies in their browser because they can only leech from people who are seeding from a webtorrent client.

Let's say I have a movie I want to let other people stream with their browser. I am obligated to use some javascript horror webtorrent-compatible client. If I already have a seedbox running transmission I simply cannot use that for this purpose, which is a shame

Still no support for webtorrents, making it impossible to use it for helping to lighten the load of my favorite peertube VODs :(

*look down to pay respects*