The PineNote is an e-ink notebook that runs Linux

Post by eloeffler » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

Buttons840 wrote: post #71

eloeffler wrote: post #57

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Especially: Write down your root password and DO NOT factory reset the device if you want to go back to the original state. If you follow these steps and you know a bit about linux you'll be fine. Factory reset on the rM2 will mess with the community framebuffer service and reset your root password, effectively locking you out unless you go the fiddly way over the external port. The rM1 is very resilient as you can d…

So they provide a factory reset feature, and what that feature does is brick your device? (Or nearly so.) Why do you say connecting over the external port is "finicky"?

Post by avery42 » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC

johnday wrote: post #70

TheRealPomax wrote: post #41

And still has zero actual videos of the device in action, which makes it really hard to get excited about it rather than cautiously apprehensive. $400 might be cheap compared to, say, a remarkable2, but not if the display turns out to be flat-out mediocre. Then that's $400 better spent on "saving up for a remarkable2".

> $400 might be cheap compared to, say, a remarkable2 A reMarkable 2 costs $399 brand new, so I'm not sure what you're on about.

Post by p_l » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

lovelyviking wrote: post #62

p_l wrote: post #40

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Remarkable 1 is recoverable without many tricks. Remarkable 2 requires a bit of parts and possibly soldering (but not required, just might make things easier if you don't have pogo pins with handles available). Both are fully recoverable unless you do something really impressive.

>Both are fully recoverable unless you do something really impressive. really impressive like what?

Post by AshamedCaptain » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 6:30 PM UTC

eloeffler wrote: post #80

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #72

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> However, the framebuffer driver has been extracted from the GUI service Extracted? Last time I look at it, they were inserting a patch in the main (and only) binary of the proprietary GUI via LD_PRELOAD, and then all other programs which wanted to draw _anything_ to the screen would basically _directly alter the memory_ of the proprietary GUI binary in order to modify its internal framebuffer. You have to do that w…

xochitl (the rM GUI) doesn't need to be run when other GUI programs are running. I don't fully understand the way this works but for anyone interested, here is the link for the framebuffer workaround: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer On rM1 it was possible to write to the framebuffer directly, on rM2 it is not exposed as a device file directly.

Post by kayodelycaon » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 6:49 PM UTC

tw04 wrote: post #34

Will this have a OneNote client? That missing feature makes the remarkable a nonstarter for me and the fact they still don't seem interested in adding one baffles me. No I'm not interested in the "just email it to yourself" workflow. I want and need to be able to directly interact with OneNote.