I just bought a Lootoo PAW6K after getting fed up with the iPhone and the headphone plug adapter.
This player has its own OS, no WiFi or only for firmware upgrades. Has no apps and boots up under three seconds and large capacity from SD Card. The best is it just plays.
What's even cooler is that it's a DAC so I can have my headphones plugged in to it and then use Spotify/Service to stream to the player.
Expensive though at $1000 but just how I want it. My headphones decoupled from my mobile phone.
I'm currently working in an iPod Nano like device based on LicheeRV Nano, TP4057, 2.8" Touch screen and a 1200mah battery. Software is buildroot and lvgl.
Not so serious ATM but looks promising so far.
Unfortunately all official sipeed 3" touch displays are sold out, probably i need to go I2C or DPI...
My bet is that the big tech movement to use AI to grab as much wealth as possible will result in a severe backlash and wake many people up to the fact that the lastest modern technology is not all it's cracked up to be.
I think it will be led dramatic than that. It simply won’t work and there will be another developer hiring spree to hire people into data engineering positions where they build large data processing pipelines to make training wheels or guard rails for LLMs to justify the investment.
I'm betting on good, old writers that are not molested by ChatGPT. We will see troves of people getting back to Paperback & Hard Cover and people opting for pen and paper - analog - to record their daily lives.
We're just scratching the surface on Generative AI and I'm already tired of it. I got a tech book that was obviously written with the aid of ChatGPT.
I am favoring old non-fiction books for my reading pleasure - the ones that were bourne from human toil.
- Retro game engines
- Doom engine
- Wolfenstein engine
- Raycasting
- Console/PC emulators getting more popular
- New search engines doing okay (Kagi etc)
- Linux distros
- Programming
- Anything low-level
- C , C#, Rust
- Anything without the term "AI" in it
- Retro phones
Also I think IDEs for retro consoles will become more prevalent, and there is the added benefit of of multiplayer for free with many emulators offering rollback netcode.
I said in the other comment, but I think AI/LLM's will drive many devs away from commercial development (web development/frontend) towards backend and lower level languages
From here to the next 10 years or so, the bet is on Medical-Help. Almost every country in the world is struggling with constant under-staffing, populations are growing older, while pay for Nurses is going down. Now with AI technologies becoming more and more reliable, the biggest pain point to solve is Healthcare.
That GP on their second 48h shift might not be hallucination free either. The question is what we can fix first, the medical resource crunch or LLM confabulation.
I’m betting on an AI brain/assistant for individuals. My info is all over the place - blogs, newsletters, articles, emails, slack, tasks. I think the amount of information will surely grow, along with the overwhelm
That’s why I’m putting my bet on building a product that helps manage it all better called Saner.AI
BitGrid - a systolic array of 4x4 bit Look Up Tables and latches.
Like Faraday's first electric motor, it'll have no practical use, at first. If I'm right, it'll be somewhat useful in reducing the power consumption of AI and let us ride Moore's law for a few more decades.
The guts of an FPGA are a lot of D-flip-flops in chains, that shift in the bitstream, and then send control signals to LUTs, switching fabric, etc. What I propose is to remove most of the switching fabric, so that every cell is identical, and add latching to every cell's output, to eliminate timing (especially race conditions) as a concern.
Every cell only has short connections to neighbors, so the capacitance of high speed lines that cause such grief in large VLSI designs is mostly removed (you do still need to clock those latches, so those would take some good drive signal).
