What software do you need, that doesn't exist?

An open-source alternative to Adobe DTP software, especially a scripting friendly version of InDesign yet suitable for professionals?

We unfortunately do live in a post-post privacy world now: so LLMs (and personal assistants based on them) with higher-than GPT-4 levels of quality that are so efficient to train and use that we can target the next generation of state-of-the-art personal computing devices. All-in on on-the-edge and power efficiency (data center energy consumption will increasingly become ridiculous).

Why does a child need so much less data for “training” to reach “adult brain”?

Apple can’t be our only hope in this regard, can it?

A capabilities based operating system for the desktop.

I want a cross platform file manager with a list view or nested list view that supports sorting by meta data, APFS' xattr and NTFS' ADS, etc.

A Grafana alternative with an MIT (or similar) license.

I'm shocked that Grafana is really the only OSS game in town for user-customizable realtime visualization.

p.s. I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong.

An app on the phone that makes it tap on the windscreen when it's been left in the car.

"Hey, don't forget me!" (displays sad_puppy_eyes.jpg)

- my wife.

Fast and featureful collection/file/library management tools. If I never have to write nested loops to rename a bunch of files ever again I would be very happy.

I take voice notes. I would really like a way for voice notes to be transcribed with timestamps. There are SaaS services that let you do that but they are for professionals and too expensive for stream of conscious personal notes.

A while ago, I did find a tutorial that would do this in Python but never got around to it.