I have this device, and for hackers, this review misses some stuff: * the company behind it is based in norway, so you can be pretty sure the techies got treated well * they abide by the GPL very well * by connecting via USB and flicking a switch in the options menu, you get SSH access, as well as a REST endpoint where you can upload your files via curl. So if you don't like their cloud offering, you can turn of wifi…
What is the relevance of the “techies got treated well”?
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#72I have this device, and for hackers, this review misses some stuff: * the company behind it is based in norway, so you can be pretty sure the techies got treated well * they abide by the GPL very well * by connecting via USB and flicking a switch in the options menu, you get SSH access, as well as a REST endpoint where you can upload your files via curl. So if you don't like their cloud offering, you can turn of wifi…
What is the relevance of the “techies got treated well”?
Techies get treated well probably equals higher employee retention, again leading to higher institutional memory, meaning bugs have a chance of actually getting fixed. More happiness probably also correlates with more creativity, meaning that there is also a chance of getting more features with updates.
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#73If you need to digitize hand-written notes, check out the write-only(ish) Boogie Board Sync.
I haven't Bluetooth'd yet, but plug it in and copy from its drive of single-page PDFs (with InkML?).
https://amzn.com/B00E8CIGCA $99.47
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#74This summer I'm planning to code outside. Is the 13' Dasung for $1400 really the best/biggest/'cheapest' the market can offer?? https://www.amazon.com/Dasung-Ink-Paperlike-13-3-Monitor/dp/... @notemaker Boox Max2 Pro looks better, thanks. Pretty small display, but it's a start.
Bargain basement & barely usable: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=olpc
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#75I have this device, and for hackers, this review misses some stuff: * the company behind it is based in norway, so you can be pretty sure the techies got treated well * they abide by the GPL very well * by connecting via USB and flicking a switch in the options menu, you get SSH access, as well as a REST endpoint where you can upload your files via curl. So if you don't like their cloud offering, you can turn of wifi…
by connecting via USB and flicking a switch in the options menu, you get SSH access, as well as a REST endpoint where you can upload your files via curl. So if you don't like their cloud offering, you can turn of wifi and be sure your data is local
Maybe it's just me, but why do the defaults for devices like this seem to now always require either a special app or reach out into the Internet? Whatever happened to simple USB mass storage where you can just plug it in and copy files back and forth? The hardware is certainly capable of it.
That said, I don't mind the presence of WiFi, but the default behaviour of requiring one to send files from a computer out far away to some server on the Internet, and then back to the tablet sitting only a few metres away seems rather silly and wasteful.
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#76As a side-side note, and just for the record, in 1993 existed (I had one) the Compaq Concerto, using the Windows for Pen Computing (a spin-off of Windows 3.1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto My model was a 486Sx 33 Mhz with a whopping 8 MB Ram (default was 4 MB) I could have written more or less the same review at the time, nice (doing what at the time was more like "magic" or "science fiction" than an…
Of course you meant 8 MB of ram.
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#77If you need to digitize hand-written notes, check out the write-only(ish) Boogie Board Sync. I haven't Bluetooth'd yet, but plug it in and copy from its drive of single-page PDFs (with InkML?). https://amzn.com/B00E8CIGCA $99.47
I've tried the Boogie Board Sync in the past and it really is write-only. The price is nice and they're honest about its features. Still, I really missed not being able to page through earlier notes.
Also, the feel of writing on it is okay but not good or great.
Had it been able to show earlier notes I would have recommended it to everyone looking for a digital notebook.
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#78As a side-side note, and just for the record, in 1993 existed (I had one) the Compaq Concerto, using the Windows for Pen Computing (a spin-off of Windows 3.1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto My model was a 486Sx 33 Mhz with a whopping 8 MB Ram (default was 4 MB) I could have written more or less the same review at the time, nice (doing what at the time was more like "magic" or "science fiction" than an…
Of course you meant 8 MB of ram.
>Of course you meant 8 MB of ram.
Oops, yes, of course (corrected the post), thanks.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say iPad is still better, if you use it with a dedicated reader app that syncs with your preferred cloud service.
No Lcd is better than e-ink for reading. And the iPad is a distraction device, one would need to disable everything in parental controls to get a comparable experience :)
While I agree that an e-ink display is much easier on the eyes, you might be able to get a distraction free experience from an iPad by using the Do Not Disturb-Mode, though I'm not sure if that mode will hide notifications while the device is in use.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say iPad is still better, if you use it with a dedicated reader app that syncs with your preferred cloud service.
No Lcd is better than e-ink for reading. And the iPad is a distraction device, one would need to disable everything in parental controls to get a comparable experience :)
Well it saves you from all the software issues described in the article as there is a mature and powerful ecosystem, so reading, annotating, sharing and syncing pdfs is not an issue.
I read a ton of pdfs on my iPad and am quite happy with the experience. Yes, epaper would be nice, but I don’t think there’s a good solution yet.
Distracted? Try the pomodoro technique.