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Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by ericd »

afandian wrote: post #88
ericd wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh? Are you talking about the RM2? Mine goes for a few weeks of occasional use without needing a charge. Is that what you’re seeing? It’s supposedly much, much better than RM1.

Sorry, I'm talking about RM1.

Oh I see, that makes more sense. I heard that RM1 was a great device, but with some v1 rough edges, and that a lot of that got smoothed out by RM2. And that jives with my experience, the RM2 feels very polished (some obvious feature improvements to be made especially in OCR and searchability, but the basic functionality works really well).

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by lovelyviking »

terpimost wrote: post #107
lovelyviking wrote: post #90

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I stumbled on some article describing that Remarkable calls home and sends some statistics. I've checked and indeed it does. My hacking attitude says it is absolutely unacceptable. The good news you can disable it, and I did. But for poople to be aware , this is what it does by default. Can't say I like that part of rM software. Unfortunately now I've looked for the article and can't find it. If you saw one, please d…

Majority of consumer facing products collect usage analytics, otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product.

>Majority of consumer facing products

There is a limit to what majority can decide for a person and it's called "rights of a person" designed exactly for that purpose.

So, for instance, majority in Nazi-Germany was ok with humiliating and eventually killing Jewish people and that fact doesn't make it justifed anyhow. Majority sometimes disrespect freedom of speech using bullying innocent comments advocating respect for a freedom which we observe recently even here in form of downvoting and it also have no justification what so ever.

>otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product. they should ask and pay for participation if they wish to know, or they simply don't know, it's ok.

If I wasn't asked about it I consider it a spyware activity and we have no idea what they do with this information now or in the future.

R. Stallman explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP8CNp-vksc

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by Eeems »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #115

I am really enjoying the ReMarkable 2. I wish the display were more "actual" paper size of course (it's 10.3" diagonal (no margins) rather than US Letter's more typical 13.8" diagonal (no margins), or even a moleskin's 11" diagonal (no margins)) That said, sketching/writing are just as good as they are on the iPad Pro or Surface Pro. The pen/glass "feel" is no worse than those other two solutions either (but no bette…

To follow up on the other comments about changing the suspend image: https://remarkablewiki.com/tips/splashscreens

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by theodric »

lovelyviking wrote: post #123
terpimost wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Majority of consumer facing products collect usage analytics, otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product.

>Majority of consumer facing products There is a limit to what majority can decide for a person and it's called "rights of a person" designed exactly for that purpose. So, for instance, majority in Nazi-Germany was ok with humiliating and eventually killing Jewish people and that fact doesn't make it justifed anyhow. Majority sometimes disrespect freedom of speech using bullying innocent comments advocating respect f…

Godwin in 3 comments: it's not a record, but it's a contender!

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by Eeems »

kadoban wrote: post #102
lovelyviking wrote: post #84

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Isn't it already does? I am running KoReader on rM1 for eReader purposes. It works this way: I start by long press of the middle button on rM1. To switch back, I quit KoReader and it restarts built in UI utility. It needs small service running in background. The only issue I've noticed is with battery life which seems the same even in a sleep mode. I am curious is that because of this small service that ignores sleep…

Yeah, KOreader doesn't currently work on the RM2, but from what I can tell they're working on (unofficial devs). It would be nice if KOreader were better integrated into the official OS, but yeah I don't really care myself.

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/6792 If you'd like to follow the progress.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by Eeems »

prideout wrote: post #83

Great info, thanks! We received our reMarkable 2 a few days ago, I wonder if its hackability is the same as its predecessor.

It is, but we are still working on sorting out the screen. You can follow progress here: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by jedimastert »

visarga wrote: post #122

I ordered on Apr 17, still waiting for my tablet to come. Two weeks ago I got a promise they are going to ship but there is no delivery yet. I am getting a little nervous about it.

(As someone who just recently got theirs) I wouldn't be super worries about a no-show. They've got a proven track record and they've already shipped a huge amount, so it's not like they don't have factories already making it.

It looks like they've just been hit particularly hard by the apocalypse, probably because of their relatively small batches, production wise

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by cycomanic »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #115

I am really enjoying the ReMarkable 2. I wish the display were more "actual" paper size of course (it's 10.3" diagonal (no margins) rather than US Letter's more typical 13.8" diagonal (no margins), or even a moleskin's 11" diagonal (no margins)) That said, sketching/writing are just as good as they are on the iPad Pro or Surface Pro. The pen/glass "feel" is no worse than those other two solutions either (but no bette…

I'm surprised that you say the pen/glass fell is no better than IPad Pro or Surface Pro, in my opinion this is a difference like day and night. I also own the Sony epaper DPT-1 and while that one has a good feel it's not close to the remarkable (mind you it also has a different aim, i.e. only note-taking no drawing). But in my opinion the writing feel blows anything with a regular LCD or OLED display completely out of the water. The texture gives it the closest to real paper anywhere. That said it is a very limited device, so if you don't need something for note-taking and reading I would not get it.

I also agree with one of the previous posters, I wish this would be A4/Letter size like the Sony. I read mainly pdf articles and the size is just sufficient.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by phaker »

1996 wrote: post #54
dheera wrote: post #48

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Have you checked this one out? Not associated with them but I do own a Boox Max Lumi (not color) and just saw the announcement about this. https://onyxboox.com/boox_poke2color

Unfortunately, it's not a genuine eink display but a rebranding of Qi hybrid LCD that was made popular in the OLPC. Just look at the announced resolution in dpi in b&w vs color, and you'll see they use a LCD mask in front. If you want both color and eink, it's better to get a dual screen, like a Lenovo C930 book: use the screen clone mode and just turn off the color screen when you don't need it. This can also gives…

it _is_ an e-paper / e-ink / electrophoretic display. E-ink went back to color filters because their filter-free color displays take tens of seconds to refresh and nobody was buying them.
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