I wish there was a good looping software that good take any song and cut the perfect infinite loop of it automatically.
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A weather widget on Android that shows all of current temp, high/low for the day, and high/low remaining for the day.
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I don’t think this needs to be a whole app, or just a feature within a camera app, but I want the ability to underlay an existing image at say 10% transparency on screen while taking a photo. It doesn’t get saved, I just want to be able to use it as a guide for framing things, like documenting changes on sites or recreating old photos for fun.
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I want to be able to open a line of communication to another driver nearby. Maybe a range of 100ft. I don’t know if it’s Bluetooth or what. “Hey your taillight is out” “hey coming up in your blindspot” “hey, please can I merge I’m not trying to be a dick” “hey is this the exit for Wawa?”
The amount of road rage induced shit talking that would be done via car-to-car communication would outweigh every benefit it could provide.
Yeah, I won’t deny the potential for abuse. On the other hand, I think a lot of road rage comes from the disinhibiting effect of being alone in your car. I’d love to see a study to see if road rage can be reduced by letting people communicate.
CB radio is pretty popular depending on where you live. You’ll start recognizing antennae everywhere once you get a kit and start messing around with it.
Won’t hit everyone but it’s pretty fun community usually. Trucks and just general weirdos, the occasional douche canoe but mostly good
I want to be able to open a line of communication to another driver nearby. Maybe a range of 100ft. I don’t know if it’s Bluetooth or what. “Hey your taillight is out” “hey coming up in your blindspot” “hey, please can I merge I’m not trying to be a dick” “hey is this the exit for Wawa?”
I think about this every time I’m on the highway, it would be so fun/useful.
I said it in another reply but I’ll say it again here, CB radio is awesome. Especially on the highway there’s tons of trucker chatter and just general nonsense.
Huh, why didn’t I think of that? Thanks
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I want an app that existed, and was killed before it’s time by Intuit. Level Money
You put in (and it learned over time) your expenses, and it gave you a single number which was how much you could spend per day. It adjusted as you went, so if you under/overspent it adjusted.
It wasn’t perfect, but was the last time I had a firm handle on my finances.
Fuck you Intuit, burn in every hell imagine able for your myriad of sins including this minor one comparatively.
Have you tried Cashew? I’ve tried tons of apps and it’s easily the best
No, but I just downloaded it! Thanks for the rec!
I work in IT and we get at least a dozen broken QuickBooks tickets a week. I fucking hate intuit and their products
Have you looked at your banks budgeting software? One of the key features mine has is it learns how transactions are categorized, so future ones will be categorized the same way even if the amount changes. While it’s far from perfect, it is a huge factor in making useful.
I used to try various money management tools but this made a huge convenience difference
This kinda locks you into one bank which is not ideal
I use CapitalOne, they have some things but nothing exactly right.
I have also tried every budgeting software under the sun, and Level was the only one that worked for me sadly. I’ve thought about using vibe coding (not a mobile dev) to makey own android app to do something similar but also super lazy lol.
Ever tried the old over engineered Excel doc trick?
Sucks because you have to do manual data entry but you’ll get whatever level of granular control your heart desires.
I’m sure there’s ways to design something similar to the auto leveling budget effect you liked, but it’s beyond my skills.
An app for Android (Google TV) that lets you change the volume on a per-application basis. Like a mixer. I want to be able to set Disney+ to 200%, Netflix to 130% and Youtube to 80%.
If you’re using Samsung, check out Soundassistant from Goodlock.
No Samsung. I want this for my Google Streamer.
Media server software that lets me program my own television station.
5:00 PM - Play the next file from folder X.
6:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Y.
7:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Z.
8:00 PM - Play random movie.Ersatz is this brilliant self hosted IPTV server that can do this. Any client (even a browser or your smart tv) can run it. Setting up the channels are a bit clunky but it’s well documented
https://ersatztv.org/ Your Personal IPTV Server | ErsatzTV
That is like a 10 line bash script? Well maybe a little more but not much. Start here: https://linux.die.net/man/1/at
Setting up something like a cron job is trivial, getting it to stream files from a particular folder, on a channel I can access on demand, is the trick.
Ideally I want to be able to change the input on my television, any time I want, to my personal streaming channel which is constantly running the schedule I’ve defined.
The one time I tried streaming I just piped ffmpeg output through icecast and that worked, but it took some reading of the ffmpeg wiki to find the right options. You might even be able to point icecast to the folder directly without ffmpeg. I needed ffmpeg because it was transcoding from a webcam. On the playback side you’d again use ffmpeg to stream the icecast channel to your computer’s hdmi output, and wire that to your TV. I’m still going with 10 line shell script, but maybe I’d use python to avoid too much shell cleverness.
Added: maybe you don’t even need icecast. Its purpose is to fan out a single input to multiple clients. You can even cascade them across a bunch of cheap VPS into a do-it-yourself youtube with 1000s of simultaneous viewers.
Seems like it would be pretty easy to set up some cron job that would change a symlink to a folder every hour and just run programs from that symlink.
That would likely work if the intent was to watch files locally, and that’s not the goal. The goal is to stream them out to something viewable on a television.
A DLNA server can do the streaming, but not the scheduling and it won’t run continuously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7m7OW2xrJE
This guy actually rolled his own internal home cableTV broadcast, which does exactly what you’re asking.
Composite video and mono audio… Ew. LOL.
Have you tried ErsatzTV? It’s selfhostable, pretty extensible, can be integrated into on-demand solutions like Jellyfin…
I look at different solutions from time to time, but it’s been a while, I’ll check that out!
There’s tons of these? I’ve been using DizqueTV for like five years without issue.
Not linking to reddit, but this DisqueTV?
0.o appreciate you bringing that to my attention.
A program that allows me to search through a large drive and see if there are any duplicates of congruent files on them, even if those files have different names but are otherwise identical, i.e. copies elsewhere on the drive.
If you search for “find duplicate files <your OS>” there seem to be some options…
I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.
Just coming back from a trip and adding to this, I wish Organic Maps / CoMaps had a function to automatically add rest stops and fuel stops.
For example, for a 7 hour road trip it would prompt:
- Frequency of rest stops:
120 minutes - Time spent at rest stop:
20 minutes - Approx remaining range:
150km - Approx car range overall:
500km
Obviously I’ve just been pulling into service stations and rest stops on my own accord, but I like having small goals and not having the navigation lose it’s shit at me because I decided to pull into a small town halfway through. Would just make planning a day of driving much easier.
- Frequency of rest stops:
That exists. Weather on the way.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-on-the-way/id1471394318
I did search for “weather on the way” in google play store. While they don’t have an android app, I found two similar apps that do a lot of what I wanted: “drive weather” and “highway weather.” Thank you for the search term that yielded results. I like that the"highway weather" app allows adding in rest stops and propagates the change into the forecast.
I will note that neither of these options seem to offer turn by turn navigation. So there is still room for some of the navigation apps to integrate this functionality.
An app that can fix audio in movies to make dialog easier to hear and understand.
It’s called subtitles 😅
Yeah, sucks having to spend so much time reading and missing the action. Plus they are AI generated a lot now. And they often get it very wrong. :(
I’m looking for an app (on Android) that not only keeps track of birthdays, but also lets you add an extra date if that person has passed away. So it will display someone’s age correctly instead of just counting on. And give reminders of both their birth- and their dying day. If it exists, please let me know…
Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.
Quodlibet has a Random Album Playback plugin
Winamp used to do this.
That is like a
105 line bash script? Well a little more but not much.Ok 6 lines (untested):
while true; do album=$(ls albums | shuf -n 1) for song in $(ls albums/$album/*.mp3 | shuf); do mplayer $song done doneMinus that second pipe to shuf, it seems exactly what the person wanted.
The first pipe to shuf chooses a random album and the second randomizes the order of the songs on that album. I thought that is what OP had asked for.
I read it as play a random album straight through, first song to last song, but re-reading what they wrote, you may be right.
I really want an app that locally indexes my locally stored photos and lets me search them locally, based on places, things or people seen in the photo.
Immich lets you do this
https://immich.app/docs/features/searching/
For example here’s me searching for “forest”. But it also supports looking for people (even multiple people in the same image), places, dates, or combinations of all of them. It’ll also look for text in images. The link has more examples
All hosted and processed on my local computer, and connected to the mobile app
I think there is a fine line between “installing an app” and “spinning up a docker image and keeping it maintained”.
I’m in the camp that Docker images are what .exe’s used to be, but they’re not easily accessible still. So Immich doesn’t count I fear.
That is completely fair, and part of that is on me since I spend so much time in self hosting communities where such a recommendation isn’t too out of the ordinary, while it’s way out of scope for what most people are looking for
Having a more user friendly and approachable way to do stuff like this would be very helpful
All hosted and processed on my local computer, and connected to the mobile app
The way you write this makes it seem as if the app doesn’t actually locally index locally stored photos. Is that so?
I’m sorry, I’m not entirely sure what you mean. All my photos are on my local hard drive on my computer at home, and I just point immich at that folder.
Once it boots up, immich doesn’t need internet to function, except for the first time you use image processing (the machine learning to search for things inside of images) and geocoding (putting the images on a map). Once it downloads those for the first time immich can run completely offline on your local computer. If you wish, you can open immich so you can connect to it from another device, such as a phone, but your images/data never leaves your device
I want an app that runs locally on my phone in my pocket and indexes the photos I’ve stored locally there, without ever needing any kind of network connection.
But the way you’re describing your setup, it seems to me as if copying your photos to your computer in order to get them indexed is a necessary step.
That’s fair. And in the case of Immich, the photos are automatically backed up to my computer so if I lose my phone I don’t lose the images, but I totally understand wanting something exclusively on the phone (Immich can let you browse photos local on your phone, but I don’t think it indexes them for searching by person/object). Unfortunately I’m not sure something like that exists, especially since the machine learning for identifying people/objects in pictures is pretty computationally intensive.
I wish you luck in your search! I agree that would be a great app to have
Unfortunately I’m not sure something like that exists,
Well, that’s exactly why such an app was what I wrote as my reply to the question “What app/program do you wish existed […]?”
Digimon.
I have to carry my phone with me everywhere I go, I want a little guy that is personal and unique to me, it gets points for stuff I do, and them I can battle with other people who have their own little guys.
Pokémon go doesn’t cut it for me, the battle isn’t Pokemon. The games are great but it’s me playing the guy not me being the guy.
I have the whole thing on paper but learning the programming to make it is discouraging and I’m already in college and writing full time
So, kinda like Pou, but with PvP?
Yeah. I even wanted to include an account based scanner for loot. You’d be able to scan barcodes and qr to get loot, battles, and stuff, but after the first scan it would remember and lock that reward so you could reclaim it daily.
I imagined players keeping little collections of barcodes so you could easily reclaim useful loot and when players meet in the wild they could scan up each others collections to get codes they may hot have found in the wild.
Sort of reminds me of Habbie
Yeah, but with a unique leveling system and PvP.
Navigation app the prioritizes things important to me. I’ll got an extra distance if I turn less or I right turn only or I have no speed bumps.
Brouter used to be capable of this, but it was configured with JSON.
I wish for something for summer months, I don’t care if the route is longer if I walk in the shade.
Edit: it’s a full blown programming language https://brouter.de/brouter/index.html
I wish there’d be a proper family tree generator, I’ve been searching for one for so long. All the things existing now seem to be old and made to create actual existing family trees with lots of limitations, but I’d really need a tool to use for world building and that kind of stuff. To allow you create profiles with a lot of data for the characters in the tree, so you could view the info in some easy way, maybe by clicking to open an info window, or something like that. To be able to easily link them to each other with other things than just family relations (like friends, lovers, enemies…). Being able to properly put a picture on the profiles so it would show there in the tree, not just a name. Just being able to properly view the whole family tree at once by zooming in and out would be so nice, and to link it with other family trees etc…
There are games that have some family tree functions, but I don’t need nor want a gaming experience. I want to do these things freely, not with having to play some shit to be able to unlock something, or to have family trees generated around just played characters. I’ve tried using mind map generating stuff as well, but they have limited features, and it’s difficult to just create branches with them since everything is supposed to link back to one single thing.
If anyone knows about something like this existing somewhere, please do tell me!
MS Vizio can do what you’re talking about. It’s a flow chart designer on crack. I’d bet there’s quite a few modules designed for family tree building you can get for it.
Instead of a family tree planner, maybe start looking at flow chart builders? Or workflow planners or project management schedulers. They all can do something like what you’re talking about, even if they’re not directly designed for purpose of family tree diagrams.
Thank you, I’ll look into those!
Yeah I’m trying to avoid MS if possible, especially since I probably have to try to make the jump to linux eventually with how things are going. I probably need to at least try Visio though, to see is it able to do what I want, so far I’ve had no luck with alternatives for it.
For example draw.io doesn’t seem to work for this (I’ve tried before as well), since I really need easy auto arranging for the nodes for it to be usable enough - and I haven’t been able to do that with it. So far the only thing that I’ve found to work even relatively well for what I want to do has been this even with it’s many limitations, since it allows to just pulling the lines wherever and it will auto arrange everything. When the trees grow to crazy sizes (over a hundred etc.), it’s almost impossible to make things work without the auto arranging, otherwise I wouldn’t even need the tools I’m looking for…
MS has visio basic included in its subscription for commercial via the web.
The desktop edition should work on Linux with something like Wine and for $10 I think it’s worth it.
I would be ecstatic if someone ported AutoHotkey to Linux. AutoKey doesn’t come close to cutting it for me.
Check out pyautogui, it’s probably what you’re looking for. You can manipulate the mouse and keyboard and even look for images contained on the screen.
Interesting. I use Autokey daily. By the minute even. I’ll have to research what I’m missing.
I really want an all-in-one android app that just let me connect 2 portable ssds (via a usb hub) and then make a list of hashes for the folder structure and file names along with the hashes, all on a single sor of “index” file and I can run a “verify” function like every so often (like maybe once a week?) to check if there are any decay, also copy everything to the 2nd drive, and then run the verify to check if its done correctly, and correct any file corruptions.
Like its a very ghetto way to doing a NAS on a budget, but its just a $50 spare android phone connected to a usb hub with the power connected, and a bunch of drives attached.
I can run hash checks manually with some F-Droid apps, and keep the hashes on a file, but there us no way to automate this.
