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Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Post by cyberax »

reticulated wrote: post #70
davisr wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reMarkable cloud is crap and has been since the beginning. I wrote a free/libre offline management tool called reMarkable Connection Utility (RCU) that is decently popular, used by several thousand people. Beyond backup/restore of editable notebook data, it has a lot of unique features the manufacturer can't/won't support (like exporting with native PDF highlight annotations). [1]: https://www.davisr.me/projects/…

> The reMarkable cloud is crap and has been since the beginning Citation needed On the contrary, reMarkable's cloud and associated sync functionality is praised regularly in the unofficial subreddit, as is the access Support has when people accidentally overwrite or otherwise delete notes. I fully understand why some people would prefer to self-host their documents, but to link your own work whilst labelling reMarkab…

> On the contrary, reMarkable's cloud and associated sync functionality is praised regularly in the unofficial subreddit

Are we sure it's not just from bots?

I tried to use reMarkable as a tablet with screen casting when teaching, and it failed miserably. The screen casting just breaks randomly.

For storage/sync it's fine, but even that is problematic if you want to organize a large library.

Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Post by tomduncalf »

gruturo wrote: post #22
GCUMstlyHarmls wrote: post #13

This is pretty refreshing to read. "Its just linux", seems to ship with SSH/root terminal enabled (over USB at least, with a simple way to enable networked access), built in webserver, just uses systemd for service control, etc. They even list it in the user guide https://remarkable.guide/guide/access/ssh.html along with an "developing software" guide https://remarkable.guide/devel/index.html . Maybe other tablets ar…

> Maybe other tablets are like that too, to be honest I'm too poor to swing the 700-1000$ for what I can cover with an paper note pad (with the bonus of being able to comfortably sit my coffee cup on it, use any pen or pencil, rip pages out, drop it, forget it somewhere, etc etc) to buy one but at least it seems like a product I would support. I have good news: they (RM2s) are often available on ebay for much less. P…

Yeah I got an RM2 cheap off there and I’m very impressed. It only really does one thing but it does it well. Personally can’t really see any reason I’d need a more powerful one, the latency is great already. Maybe for the front light.

They are quite hackable, but a lot of the mods rely on some funky QT hacking… it’s all a bit kind of undocumented. I was able to get Codex to get full Chromium running in a chroot and render the screen via Xvfb though which was pretty cool and is somewhat usable, so I guess most things are possible with determination

Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Post by tomduncalf »

haskman wrote: post #64

I bought a Remarkable 2 tablet a while back. I quickly realised two things - 1. Remarkable's own software is a steaming pile of poo. Their inbuilt web server for uploading files is extremely buggy and unusable. It's dog slow. You can't try to drag many files in one go, or it crashes. You can't try to upload a large file, or it crashes. There is also a hard limit on the file size you can upload (something like 100MB)…

Re: the software, I do think the on device software is good, if somewhat minimal, and the core writing experience is great

Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Post by tomduncalf »

turtlebits wrote: post #34
greatgib wrote: post #12

Really sad the official lack of proper support for using it as a general purpose device for the ones that would like time because otherwise the hardware is really great. I like mine very much except the limitation that I can't do too much with it.

It barely has enough power to render PDFs, I'm not sure what general purpose use you could get out of it. The limitation is the whole point, it does pen input very well.

I posted in a comment above that I (well Codex) was able to get full Chromium running on it. It’s not fast by any means but is usable if you just want to read a web page on e-ink… so it’s not crazy underpowered

Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Post by wingmanjd »

haskman wrote: post #64

I bought a Remarkable 2 tablet a while back. I quickly realised two things - 1. Remarkable's own software is a steaming pile of poo. Their inbuilt web server for uploading files is extremely buggy and unusable. It's dog slow. You can't try to drag many files in one go, or it crashes. You can't try to upload a large file, or it crashes. There is also a hard limit on the file size you can upload (something like 100MB)…

Thanks for pointing out ReManager. After moving to the Move, I've sorely missed my handful of toltec packages (koreader, etc.).

Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Post by 8note »

rwmj wrote: post #25
jacknews wrote: post #8

woah 4 years is considered obsolete? My kids still using thinkpad 430 from 2013

Next up, "reviving my paper notes from 40 years ago". Oh wait, there's nothing that I need to do, they still all work fine.

idk about that, there was water damage from that year everything flooded, and theyre scattered across 50-100 boxes

Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Post by doublerabbit »

usef- wrote: post #7
doublerabbit wrote: post #6

Maybe this will restore my faith in digital tablets. I made notes, saved them. Only for the next morning to find my device out of battery and the notes missing. I don't get it, feels like I was zapped by some evil overlord that didn't want me recalling what I had written for the next part of my cartoon. Now just use good ole paper and pen.

On a remarkable, or other tablet? Sounds like a software issue, there's no reason for that to happen in 2026.

Remarkable 2

Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Post by frio »

onesandofgrain wrote: post #9

Why not use paper and pencil?

I work remotely, and when trying to discuss concepts with others, I frequently doodle things out with pen and paper (just like I used to on a whiteboard in an office). Having a Supernote means I can share my diagrams live on the call, just like a real whiteboard, which in turn makes it easier to communicate with my coworkers.

I've used all kinds of drawing apps on the web previously, and the extra impedance of the mouse/canvas/tool selection/whatever frustrates the whole process.

Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

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Post by 0x0000000 »

j2kun wrote: post #61

What a dismal idea that a four-year-old device is non-functional and in need of "reviving."

Nothing needed to be "revived" here. The cloud sync stopped working, the device was otherwise fully functional. Author found a more convenient method for accessing files than the cloud sync, anyway.
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