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This is anxiety-inducing and a good promo for the pinenote!
The Pinenote can't arrive fast enough! I'm sitting on a ReMarkable 2 that I hate because I didn't realize how serious they were about crippling the usefulness of a really beautiful stack of hardware. It's really, Really, REALLY dead-set against letting you do anything useful like use wikipedia or stackoverflow on your ultra-long-battery-life beautiful-display device that you might, I dunno, want to use to look at ref…
Oh boy do I have opinions with this one. This seems like a lot of work to avoid using a perfectly good package manager on the device . They could have used rsync without installing rsync on the device. The target device doesn't need to have rsync for rsync to be used. They could have installed the package manager and left it. It doesn't run anything in the background on my device. It's easy enough to verify you don't…
Does remarkable use a fork of ChromiumOS? ChromiumOS uses the BOOT-A and BOOT-B partitions for upgrades and it reverts to the previously used boot partition if the OS fails to successfully boot[0]. [0] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
Oh boy do I have opinions with this one. This seems like a lot of work to avoid using a perfectly good package manager on the device . They could have used rsync without installing rsync on the device. The target device doesn't need to have rsync for rsync to be used. They could have installed the package manager and left it. It doesn't run anything in the background on my device. It's easy enough to verify you don't…
Does remarkable use a fork of ChromiumOS? ChromiumOS uses the BOOT-A and BOOT-B partitions for upgrades and it reverts to the previously used boot partition if the OS fails to successfully boot[0]. [0] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
I work part-time for my university's help desk and I was both impressed and disappointed the first time I came across one of these--one the one hand, its highly customizable and supports SSH access. On the other hand, there is shockingly no way to get the MAC address without connecting via SSH, even though this is popular among academics who often need to get onto MAC filtered networks. In hindsight, we probably coul…
The reMarkable is surprisingly good for its primary purpose. Everything else it does... is limited. They things they did do are done well given how they are implemented. The epub/pdf experience sucks because it doesn't have a real pdf reader. It just renders the epub to pdf and then throw the pdf into the note-taking app. Arguably, none of the functionality is half-assed. It works very well as a writing tablet. It ab…
I work part-time for my university's help desk and I was both impressed and disappointed the first time I came across one of these--one the one hand, its highly customizable and supports SSH access. On the other hand, there is shockingly no way to get the MAC address without connecting via SSH, even though this is popular among academics who often need to get onto MAC filtered networks. In hindsight, we probably coul…
The reMarkable is surprisingly good for its primary purpose. Everything else it does... is limited. They things they did do are done well given how they are implemented. The epub/pdf experience sucks because it doesn't have a real pdf reader. It just renders the epub to pdf and then throw the pdf into the note-taking app. Arguably, none of the functionality is half-assed. It works very well as a writing tablet. It ab…
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The reMarkable is surprisingly good for its primary purpose. Everything else it does... is limited. They things they did do are done well given how they are implemented. The epub/pdf experience sucks because it doesn't have a real pdf reader. It just renders the epub to pdf and then throw the pdf into the note-taking app. Arguably, none of the functionality is half-assed. It works very well as a writing tablet. It ab…
Maybe keep an eye out on the PineNote. It's bound to be much worse than the reMarkable as a writing tablet, but it should also be general purpose in a lot of ways the rm isn't.
Oh boy do I have opinions with this one. This seems like a lot of work to avoid using a perfectly good package manager on the device . They could have used rsync without installing rsync on the device. The target device doesn't need to have rsync for rsync to be used. They could have installed the package manager and left it. It doesn't run anything in the background on my device. It's easy enough to verify you don't…
I know I reacted hard to this statement: > Going further down the rabbit hole, the toltec GitHub page mentions that it works on top of the Entware distribution, and recommends what is basically “wget | bash”. I’m not a fan of this. Could I install my own rsync? We made sure that the toltec install process includes a hash of the install script to prove that it isn't modified by a man-in-the-middle. Toltec itself requi…
I apologize, I could have better expressed why I took the path I did. I'll edit the post later today.
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Does remarkable use a fork of ChromiumOS? ChromiumOS uses the BOOT-A and BOOT-B partitions for upgrades and it reverts to the previously used boot partition if the OS fails to successfully boot[0]. [0] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
No, it uses Yocto/OpenEmbedded.
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"They could have used rsync without installing rsync on the device. The target device doesn't need to have rsync for rsync to be used." This is not true.
It very much is true. I do it all the time. If the target device is running ssh, you can use rsync on the source. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-copy... Edit: Looks like I was wrong.