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I highly recommend installing KoReader, especially for PDFs. Works on Kobo readers as well.
Is there already a port for the remarkable 2? It would be so nice to have a working epub reader...
Is there a primer on how to use these repos? I don’t see anything high level that keeps the user from shooting themselves in the foot- especially with the reMarkable 2.
If there is a remarkable person that sees this, please embrace the hacker community. It is a huge asset to have us by your side, and it's a huge differentiator from all the other tablets which have walled off developers. Also, it would be pretty sweet some part of the API was documented.
Aren't their devices already really hack-friendly?
The hacking community is quite active, one frequently asked question is how to get and run custom software on the device.
There's the Entware[0] package repository for running ARMv7 software on the tablet. Recently a community maintained package repository, toltec[1] for tablet-specific software was created and is actively maintained.
For Nix users, I've been helping build a Nix-based cross-compile toolchain[2], so you could easily cross-compile a good amount of the 60K packages on Nixpkgs for the tablet. Upstreaming the cross toolchain to Nixpkgs is in the works.
To see what the community is up to, see the IRC channel[3], Reddit[4] and Discord server[5].
[0] https://github.com/evidlo/remarkable_entware
[1] https://github.com/toltec-dev/toltec
[2] https://github.com/siraben/nix-remarkable
[3] #reMarkable on Freenode
In the summer I like to sit outside coding, but the sunlight outshines my laptops LCD display. So I'd like to use an eInk display as an external monitor. And I gather ReMarkable is the best bet because of their hackability.
ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these "hacks" were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn't ruin any workflow I build with them.
Is there any hint of such acknowledgment, or would I be risking $448 on a device that might turn itself into a paperweight?
I've been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it's a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That's a shame, because the hardware is really cheap. ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these "hacks" were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn…
I've been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it's a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That's a shame, because the hardware is really cheap. ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these "hacks" were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn…
The fact that you can literally SSH into it, out of the box, was a strong signal for me. I don't regret purchasing my RM1.
I've been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it's a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That's a shame, because the hardware is really cheap. ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these "hacks" were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn…
[0] https://remarkable.engineering/
Is the only thing stopping e-ink tablets/devices from becoming afforable because of the high rent/royalties for the patented e-ink technology? I'm keen to use one because 1) i think over it's lifetime it will likely consume less energy than an LCD/OLED tablet, and 2) because it would be better for my eyes when i'm reading articles/research or books.