I’m all for them getting their just desserts, but not at the cost of women suffering

Thank you! Really appreciate the advice too, didn’t know that was a thing

Does anyone here know any sources to find good iOS apps? Idk where else to ask, and this seemed the most relevant.

I appreciate your punnage (if that’s the right word)

Tbh one of the continents should have been given a different name, but I blame Columbus

I agree with the latter point but your first point is the only one I found myself questioning in this thread. If we were just going on feelings I would agree with you, but I’m not so sure if it’s actually a given, especially if we take out children as the variable as they are really susceptible to it. It can be addictive for sure, but is it brain rotting? I would like to see a study.

We have a very similar way of thinking.

Forgot to mention in the edit, so adding as a new comment:

I’ll bring back my story ideas and complete them and publish them as books, it’ll let me pretend that I have an active imagination as a writer and that I just got lucky with the lottery and used it to put money in tech that fascinated me and just was good at imagining tech.

I’ll do a fast forward course of comp-sci to present RISC-V based on that and use common terminology to explain it as much as possible.

Like the other person mentioned their family, I would say that about my friends and other relations. I don’t think it’s possible for me to redo my life in a way that my decade old friendships would be the same (or even better) than what they became. I don’t even know if I will feel the same about my friends if I decide to relive my life as memory is a precarious thing and I can’t rely on how I feel about them to last until I meet them again and live life interacting with them while trying to change the world.

I could consider a 21yo body but as a millennial I would end up overaged for the people who were important in my life to have any meaningful relation with them.

I have considered the scenario of reliving my life, correcting my mistakes and maybe making some massive changes along the way, if I could somehow guarantee keeping the things that matter to me the same.

I forgot to write what things I would do, so here are some ideas:

• Investing is an obvious one which everyone else has also mentioned.
• I would download all the open source stuff, all leaked files, maybe even scour the dark web for stuff
• Buy NeXt to hire jobs as the CEO of my tech company (also any other corporations that I could buy back then, like Google)
• I’ll create a note with ideas that were killed too soon or didn’t last due to tampering by big corps, and products which got enshittified and implement them when there’s no competition or wait for when I have enough money to not worry about people getting in my way.
• I’ll create a note with mention of all the important events (multiple notes, encrypted, to prevent someone from using that information)
• Put an offline LLM and other AI on my phone (along with very reliable chargers and replacement batteries).
• (Kind of a sub point of above, but it got big) I’ll try to take a phone with replaceable batteries and sturdy design. It would be great if it could fit in that time, I’ll disable the touch screen to that effect and only use a stylus, and other changes to make it seem worse or maybe take a “bad” phone from the start. I’ll also claim it’s an experimental product if someone asks me about it.
• A list of my favourite recipes, so that I can be a food trailblazer
• Start my own music company and invest in artists which I know will be big in the future, give them better terms than my competition and use that roster to prepare for streaming. I’ll already have Jobs and Ive to design iPod and take over that period.
• With RISC-V as my chip, I’ll buy one of the fabs which went under back then and use it to establish myself as a chip manufacturer and once I have built up enough lead in the fab business with knowledge gathered before going back I’ll open source RISC-V as an act of benevolence according to the world (I’ll discuss the future fab knowledge with the researchers I will acqui-hire with the fab, they should be able to create something in a few years with whatever knowledge I can provide, I’ll just have to act as a layman with more knowledge and if I go with my age they’ll think I’m a smart kid)
• I didn’t mention crypto because that might change with the chip info I bring back, so I’ll see if that happens again and invest early and secretly to have enough of it to have a hand in that too.
• I’ll also try to keep my identity hidden so that I can live the important parts of my life again as they were, and once I have lived those I’ll consider if I need to be known to the world.
• I’ll prepare media organizations to fight disinformation
• I’ll bring back innovations in renewables that I’ll slowly release into the world.

That’s a believable number, go for something higher, like in millions, I would even say 10 million

You’ll not believe your eyes

This I like

Unless we’re still getting free access to all the services which use advertising to offset the costs, this is a terrible idea as people rely on some of those services

Abolish share based profits instead, if not capitalism, might be a better solution towards that goal

Yeah, it won’t, I’m just mentioning it as something for the op to be aware of

The one I mentioned is from steelseries, but there should be sound mixers available which work via software connection or maybe you can try to get it made with a raspi or another sbc, either yourself or by asking a friend who would be interested in making that for you.

But bone conduction will still be affected by noise around me, no? And I’ll also be at risk of damaging my hearing if I try to keep the volume high enough to counteract noise, or am I mistaken?

The Nokia Morph concept was ahead of its time

Great for people who like pets but either are allergic or germophobe or just not able to get a non robotic pet for whatever reason

This exists but the one I have seen relies on installing software on your windows PC, idk if it works without Linux and/or devices other than their own

If you want the best idea, just look at the last paragraph and ignore everything else.

Entirely too many to write about here in entirety, but I’ll write a few that I remember ATM:

A setup, so multiple devices, of: a feature phone based on flipper zero with buttons on it like it’s a fidget toy (but actually functional) and a foldable tablet that looks like a notebook (Lenovo yoga fold)

A tablet based off of Pixel C, MacBook, ROG Flow Z13 and/or Pixelbook with magnets in the body to stick it anywhere like Google tablets usually have, the look and keyboard of Pixelbook (it’s just a personal favourite), trackpad and SoC from Macs, gaming capabilities from windows, and a screen with the new 3D tech (for designing 3D prints), microLED, and 240 Hz+ VRR

A controller based on a combination of dualsense, xbox elite, and steam controller with a low energy display doubling as a trackpad in the middle

Screen tech which is capable of giving actual tactile feel of buttons so I can have double screen or foldable device without sacrificing on a keyboard good for touch typing.

A mixed reality headset as small as sunglasses with capabilities of the best of them

A headset which I can stick around my ear and get audio directly into my nerves with very little if any invasive surgery

Basically Nokia morph concept but in real life would also be really cool

While typing about magnets I remembered the actual thing I really want to exist currently: polymagnet based devices and accessories. It can be so futuristic if implemented properly, and a game changer, though I assume it’s not mass production ready yet or someone would have applied it. Everything else is just my imagination running wild, not that I consider this a reasonable thing either.