We have almost reached pen and paper functionality and usability for a mere $600.
Call me when your pen and paper supports layers, copy/paste, drag & rotate and zooming.
The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
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Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I desperately want a solution for working outside. E-ink would be absolutely awesome. Unfortunately I don't see anything on the horizon. Even the devices that will work as monitors described in the sibling posts would be problematic because they are simply too big. I need something I can put in my bag and go. I guess I'll have to wait until the rest of society catches up with my nomad-work existence :-)
I had my hopes on mirasol[1] but they seem to have given up on the technology due to low yields. Imagine a laptop with this technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1xEuR2mLh8
CLEARink looks pretty promising. Well see if that translates to actual devices using it or end up like Mirasol, Liquavista etc.
Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
#83I 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 simp…
Most customers are ignorant of security issues and the privacy regulations are too weak. This has resulted on one hand in only noticing the conveniences of cloud sync on the customer side and an information greediness on the side of the companies.
My enthusiasm for this device instantly evaporated when I found out about the mandatory cloud integration. I already know from a customer support situation that Amazon has remote access to kindles, they can tell you what files you have on device, etc.
It's depressingly bad...
Bonus: this reMarkable website does not work without third party JS. It's completely blank. One of the 3rd parties is hotjar, which does all sorts of shady analytics like clickstream and keylogging.
Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
#84I 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…
That gives me a lot of hope. At some pint the article mentions a "proprietary cloud service" which immediately made me worry that this would be a locked-up device.
If the underlying software is open source, that would also suggest that it if there is a large enough community, it will keep working for much longer than the company supports it. And it gives hope for better software fixes. For example, the writing-lag mentioned sounds like it should be solvable with better data structures under the hood.
Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
#85I 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 simp…
To make it more likely you'll stay within their ecosystem and buy more from their app/book/etc. store, is always my first assumption.
Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
#86Is there a timeline on how fast e-ink got since its inception?
Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
> requires charging thru the ipad's port ...wtf It comes with an adapter so you can charge it with same Lightning charger you use to charge the iPad itself. I almost accidentally threw it out with the packaging. They should have incorporated into the cap so you'd always have it with you. Also it's kind of silly they didn't make that end (where an eraser usually is) function as an eraser.
but why not just put a female-end of lightning port? (not on top but somewhere near middle - I agree with your eraser function) having a cap to protect its manliness is so... stupid
It’s nice being able to charge directly from the iPad in a pinch. Supposedly 15 seconds of charging gives you 30 minutes of use.
I’ve just been using the female-female adapter as a cap, but it doesn’t look as nice. It’s more oval than round and has the exposed port.
I’m kind of surprised no one has made a nicer female-female adapter with matching male cap.
Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
#88I had a CrossPad twenty years ago. And it feels like this device has improved extremely little from it. The CrossPad was recording what you wrote in a notepad placed on top of it, it had a little radio in the pen, and later you could download what you did, if I remember, in a vector format so it was better than a scanner. The ReMarkable on the other hand, records what you are writing on a screen and later you can dow…
Well, at least its not recording your every stroke, to sell that as "mind-reading" info to advertisers. How, should we call it when software regresses. Its not bloat- its worser.
Updegrade?
Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The disturbances come from all the apps unfortunately. Browser, games, movies, etc.
Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet
#90I 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 simp…
They tried, but exposing a "simple USB mass storage" isn't easy at all from a running operating system. USB mass storage requires exposing a block device with a filesystem, which is error-prone and complex. This is why file-based protocols like MTP exist.
But, since you can SSH into the device, rsync works just fine on the Remarkable. :)