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I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by syshum »

CPLX wrote: post #140
syshum wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hmm I found the eBook functionality to be passable. I read ebooks and PDF's on my Remarkable 2 all the time >It absolutely sucks as a general purpose device because everything except the very core experience is flat-out missing. As is intended, I do not want a general purpose device, I want an electronic notebook, to replace what used to be many many paper notebooks I used to keep meeting notes, daily activity logs,…

I am completely on your side, that's the same reason I bought mine. But damm I sure wish I had a way to take a note on my iPhone and have it show up on my Remarkable. That would mean when I pick up the Remarkable it has all my notes on it. Anyone know a good way to do that?

This is one area I agree they should look to improve or have offical API's so the community could improve.

I am not in the Apple echosystem but I would love a way to better sync with OneNote, and/or have my Task list manageable by ToDo, ToDoist, or some other task manager, but appear on the Remarkable to check things off.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by blumomo »

shreddit wrote: post #58
morpheuskafka wrote: post #10

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…

Just connect to a wifi you have admin access to. This is very sad. https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000267477...

Huh? You still need the root password which you only get once you open the settings menu. I protect my remarkable with a PIN code, so only I should see the root password.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by lottin »

kayodelycaon wrote: post #91
morpheuskafka wrote: post #10

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…

What do you mean a real pdf reader? The pdf reader displays pdfs, allows you to navigate the document and to scribble on it. Sure, it could do some things better, but it's perfectly functional as it is.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by zbuf »

fouc wrote: post #46
cortesoft wrote: post #6

Isn't `bricked then recovered` a contradiction in terms?

I think "bricked" as a term originated from flashing the firmware on mobile phones. If the firmware ended up in a non-recoverable state, the phone became as useful as a brick. It was theoretically possible to take physical intervention to pull the firmware chip out and flash it with an fpga programmer tool, but most people wouldn't have the equipment for that.

I think we've been using this term long before mobile phones...

This feels a bit like the word "bug"; I'd be quite interested to know if it can be traced to its actual first use.

People associate it with phones because as I remember they were always being described as the size (and weight) of a brick, and that's when they were working.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #82

Back in the day “bricked” meant it was actually and permanently about as useful as a brick - no chance of recovery. These days it just seems to mean “can’t boot and can’t be fixed/reflashed easily”. Having to plug a resistor into the device to put it in any sort of recovery mode does walk a very fine line between “not really bricked” and “dude you squeezed water out of a stone, you are a demigod”.

HN has seen many discussions over the proper meaning of bricked. [0][1][2][3]

I think it's because it's an ambiguous metaphor. Does it mean currently only as useful to you as a brick, or does it mean as objectively valuable as a brick. Personally I prefer the original stronger definition, where recoverable issues do not count as bricked, but so it goes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20379772

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20381892

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25731376

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22845778

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by comeonseriously »

naikrovek wrote: post #145

is it bricked if it can be recovered? bricking, the way I learned the term, means unrecoverable via any software means and almost any (or actually any) hardware means.

Right. Same here. But, like waterproof vs water resistant, people don't seem to use the term correctly anymore.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by laserbeam »

kayodelycaon wrote: post #91
morpheuskafka wrote: post #10

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…

> It just renders the epub to pdf and then throw the pdf into the note-taking app.

I found it weird at first... But then you realise you're supposed to be able to write on the pages any time. The moment you support general epub rendering your pages are no longer fixed and your notes should move around as well. The moment you change your font size, all your notes, drawings and highlights no longer match the underlying text. I actually think "render to pdf", or more specifically to some fixed page format, is the ideal experience on this device. Realigning your notes is an impossible problem to solve and if I were a dev I would also discourage any features that reflow text on demand.

Missing features (search in document, bookmarks, whatever) should be implemented for both pdfs and epubs.

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