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Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

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Post by [deleted] »

diggan wrote: post #36
a1011 wrote: post #32

I've thought about getting one of these. Even though I type about as fast as I write, I think better when I write in a notebook with drawings to organize my ideas. Can anyone who has one tell me how accurate the handwriting recognition is? And how responsive is the pen-tablet interface? Does it actually feel like writing on paper (responsiveness-wise)?

I have very bad handwriting, especially when not taking care to write carefully, which when making notes, I don't. Here is an example on how it parses my terrible handwriting: https://websites.instantwebsite.app/wPhkwSStQvStUrzPC9jW5Kw/... (no, I'm not a doctor) According to the licenses on the device, the handwriting is "partially powered by MyScript" which seems to be this service: https://www.myscript.com/

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Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

#192

Post by kayodelycaon »

zarkov99 wrote: post #184
zaptheimpaler wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been on the lookout for a great reading/writing/drawing device and ended up going with an iPad. I haven't tried a remarkable, though I do have a kindle as a reference for e-ink displays. As a whole, the iPad is hard to beat: - Matte screen protector + pencil means reading/writing experience feels just as good as an eink. - It can comfortably handle large, color PDFs. Other solutions either don't have color, or d…

I made the same choice, but I am rethinking it. I run Linux on my desktop and would love to control my iPad from the desktop, using it as a second screen or a drawing pad. Apple makes this uncessarly hard.

I assume you're looked at Apple's Continuity[1] and Sidecar[2] features of macOS+iPad. They work more reliably if you use a cable to hook them together.

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204975

2: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210380

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

#193

Post by m463 »

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 really worry about the normalization of this sort of thing.

Really - in a respectful relationship with a vendor - you would gain SO much by just asking. Even if people say no.

Really, it's like "I wasn't stalking you, I was just collecting valuable feedback for improving our next date!"

Instead, try "Hey, how are you - did you have fun?"

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

#194

Post by eli »

davisr wrote: post #146
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.

> otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product. Or, you know, they could just ask customers how the product is working for them. Automated data collection is a huge, huge problem and stampedes over civil liberties. We ought to control our computers, and not be controlled by them, which is why I vigorously oppose all non-free (proprietary, non libre) software.

Asking users how they use a product and measuring it results in dramatically different data.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

#195

Post by throwaway9980 »

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 usually use two squares of toilet paper per wipe. Occasionally I’ll use three, sometimes accidentally and sometimes because I need three. Whenever I use three I wonder to myself how that will appear when the numbers are crunched. Then I remember there’s no analytics for my toilet paper.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

#196

Post by zaptheimpaler »

zarkov99 wrote: post #184
zaptheimpaler wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been on the lookout for a great reading/writing/drawing device and ended up going with an iPad. I haven't tried a remarkable, though I do have a kindle as a reference for e-ink displays. As a whole, the iPad is hard to beat: - Matte screen protector + pencil means reading/writing experience feels just as good as an eink. - It can comfortably handle large, color PDFs. Other solutions either don't have color, or d…

I made the same choice, but I am rethinking it. I run Linux on my desktop and would love to control my iPad from the desktop, using it as a second screen or a drawing pad. Apple makes this uncessarly hard.

Its also impossible on Remarkable or another ereader. I wish Apple products were less locked down too, but im not talking about usecases beyond an ereader here.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

#197

Post by zarkov99 »

kayodelycaon wrote: post #192
zarkov99 wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made the same choice, but I am rethinking it. I run Linux on my desktop and would love to control my iPad from the desktop, using it as a second screen or a drawing pad. Apple makes this uncessarly hard.

I assume you're looked at Apple's Continuity[1] and Sidecar[2] features of macOS+iPad. They work more reliably if you use a cable to hook them together. 1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204975 2: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210380

Is this only available if you have a Mac desktop?

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

#198

Post by eucryphia »

throwaway9980 wrote: post #195
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 usually use two squares of toilet paper per wipe. Occasionally I’ll use three, sometimes accidentally and sometimes because I need three. Whenever I use three I wonder to myself how that will appear when the numbers are crunched. Then I remember there’s no analytics for my toilet paper.

Depends if your a scruncher or a folder.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

#199

Post by SulfurHexaFluri »

eli wrote: post #194
davisr wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product. Or, you know, they could just ask customers how the product is working for them. Automated data collection is a huge, huge problem and stampedes over civil liberties. We ought to control our computers, and not be controlled by them, which is why I vigorously oppose all non-free (proprietary, non libre) software.

Asking users how they use a product and measuring it results in dramatically different data.

I can't count the number of times I have seen a new product or bit of software and though immediately "That sounds like a horrible idea, how useless" And then later eventually trying it and liking it.

Asking customers what they want can be useful sometimes but mostly people don't know what they want other than a slightly improved version of the thing they already like.

Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

#200

Post by SulfurHexaFluri »

Majestic121 wrote: post #13
detaro wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't their devices already really hack-friendly?

They are pretty hacker firendly, but it's always good to show that this is something that people like

Just saying on the website or somewhere else officially that being able to ssh in is a feature and not something they just left there and may remove later would make the device a lot more attractive.
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