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Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by shirakawasuna »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Opt-out analytics is not the only way to do research on your own products or users. Not by a lot.

And it being popular doesn't justify it, it's just an invasion of privacy that many people put up with (or are unaware of).

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by mekster »

fny wrote: post #5

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.

What is the huge differentiator by having hackers on their side?

You should explain when you ask.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by ben_w »

seneca wrote: post #112
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 collect usage analytics, otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product. Producers managed to improve products for thousands of years without violating the privacy of their customer. Equating slightly inconvenient with impossible doesn't make for a great argument.

The improvements were stumbles in the dark by comparison — people didn’t even realise colour blindness existed until the industrial revolution.

That said, while I am fine with automated bug tracking for this sort of goal, I absolutely agree that all automated tracking needs to be opt-in rather than opt-out.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by sanderjd »

Arainach wrote: post #93
jason_slack wrote: post #22

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> ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, I have been contemplating buying a ReMarkable 2 as I prefer to handwrite everything/annotate/. The price tag is a bit hefty given the cost of an iPad and pencil and the zillion other things it does. I'm curious if you are indeed going to buy one?

I've had mine for 4-6 weeks now. I'm not returning it, but I can't particularly recommend it - both the annotation and eReading experiences are significantly inferior to what you'd get with Onenote, Notability, or Drawboard on iPad/Surface. The reMarkable hardware is nice, but its stock software is frankly disappointing. The hackability is a "plus", but I don't want to have to resort to unsupported firmware tweaks to…

I share some of these criticisms, but the hardware is so good and, I think, the harder thing to get right, that I'm optimistic to see the software improve over time, perhaps through community contributions.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by cambalache »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I suppose your mattress phones home to tell its makers how often you sleep and with which frequency you do other vigorous physical activities on it. Only way to improve it.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by cycomanic »

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.

I received mine about 3 weeks ago. It was the same for me as you describe, got an email with "we are about to ship your device you will receive notification from DHL" or something similar. Then it took another 2 weeks or so, and I received a notification directly from DHL that my device will arrive in 4 or 5 days (I think it came even faster like 2-3 days). Anyway, I wouldn't be worried, it seems after that initial notification you are only notified once the tablet it's already on its way.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by afarviral »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They need to use another approach. Its spying.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by stevehawk »

cambalache wrote: post #135
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.

I suppose your mattress phones home to tell its makers how often you sleep and with which frequency you do other vigorous physical activities on it. Only way to improve it.

a lot of mattresses do.. and it's likely your smart watch does as well

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by Pyramus »

shirakawasuna wrote: post #131
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.

Opt-out analytics is not the only way to do research on your own products or users. Not by a lot. And it being popular doesn't justify it, it's just an invasion of privacy that many people put up with (or are unaware of).

I don't agree it's a 0 or 1 decision, you can gather analytics in a privacy-preserving way, see e.g. plausible.io [1] or similar implementations that track users without collecting personal data.

[1] https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics

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