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Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by 2fast4you »

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…

That fact that it isn’t a general purpose device is a huge plus for me honestly. I don’t need it to be much more than digitally enhanced paper

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by 2fast4you »

Matthias1 wrote: post #88
Andrex wrote: post #4

Not trying to shill too hard, but it's rare I fall in love with a device the way I've fallen in love with my Remarkable 2. I can't say it was 100% worth the price (half was paid as a gift), but everything about it is refreshingly elegant and simple. Great to know recovering from a brick is possible too.

I had one for a couple weeks right about a year ago. I was very impressed by its ability to mimic paper. Unfortunately, it didn't do much more than mimic paper, so I sold it and bought some nice notebooks. However, I think that was before the software projects mentioned in this post. I never tried to SSH into it, so maybe it's possible to use it for things that you can't replace with paper.

It goes a little farther than just mimicking paper. Being able to rearranged my notes notes just by dragging and dropping was the killer feature for me.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by aeturnum »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #202
aeturnum wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are different traditions of how to annotate text and not all of them follow the conventions you're describing. Here's an example from a hebrew bible from the 16th century: http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/N09/N09589/550N... .

I can't read that; can you elaborate on how it's different?

I can't read Hebrew either! But the way these books were typeset was to balance commentary with the text. For instance, you can see that the right page has a pretty substantial chunk of scripture in the middle (the central columns are scripture) and the left-handed one has only a couple of lines. This style doesn't have the central text with commentary as an optional note, it's a blending of text and commentary. So one "page" of text might be 100% Tanakh and the next might be 10% Tanakh and 90% commentary. Rendering either one of them as a contentious text stream (or even interwoven paragraphs) loses some of the authorial intent.

Obviously this is a pretty specific literary tradition and most marginalia works exactly like you describe, but I think it's worth remembering that our experience of text being one way is often more about the texts we've happened to encounter than any limits to the diversity of how humans have written.

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Post by thaumasiotes »

aeturnum wrote: post #213
thaumasiotes wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't read that; can you elaborate on how it's different?

I can't read Hebrew either! But the way these books were typeset was to balance commentary with the text. For instance, you can see that the right page has a pretty substantial chunk of scripture in the middle (the central columns are scripture) and the left-handed one has only a couple of lines. This style doesn't have the central text with commentary as an optional note, it's a blending of text and commentary. So o…

A few thoughts:

The Chinese religious text looks basically the same as the right-hand page. It's surrounded by commentary on three sides instead of four sides, but that is a minor difference.

    +-------------+
    |  commentary |
    |             |
    |  +-------+  |
    |  | text  |  |
    +--+-------+--+
The left-hand page is obviously different, but it's not clear to me how much I should think of it as text and how much I should think of it as artwork / talismans.

Anyway, I agree that the commentary is presented as being at least as important as the text, but I don't see that as contradicting what I was describing above.

> So one "page" of text might be 100% Tanakh and the next might be 10% Tanakh and 90% commentary.

This style is also common in contemporary legal documents. (I searched briefly earlier for a good example and didn't find one.) A page will usually not be 90% footnotes, but it's not so rare for a page to be more than 50% footnotes. I think this is a pretty natural outcome of the fact that some parts of any text attract much more commentary than other parts. Despite the very high volume of footnote material in these documents, though, they are always presented in a manner that suggests the text comes first and the footnotes come second in importance. For example, the footnote to a particular bit of text may not all occur on the same page as the text it footnotes.

I would argue that the difference between the religious texts and contemporary legal briefs is that the commentary really is more important than the text in the first case, and really isn't in the second case. The religious texts have been preserved for so long that they don't have much meaning left independent of the interpretive tradition that the commentary provides.

But your own personal notes on something you've read are unlikely to be as centrally important as the accumulated interpretive tradition associated with a multi-thousand-year-old text. If you wrote it in the margin initially, keeping it in the margin seems fairly safe. That commentary you see printed around the scripture on the right-hand page didn't come from the book owner.

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Post by elzbardico »

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…

Well, you know that MAC filtering is really useless, right?

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by ramraj07 »

elzbardico wrote: post #215
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…

Well, you know that MAC filtering is really useless, right?

And so is expiring passwords but every company does it so what?

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Post by dredmorbius »

nsomaru wrote: post #209
dredmorbius wrote: post #208

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You have access to the Android app ecosystem. In the event you're not a fan of prorprietary Android apps, the BOOX also does F-Droid quite well. (I use a mix of F-Droid and APK-Mirror sources.) There seem to be a good set of mostly-works-on-eink apps on Android. Onyx's bookreader and note-taking apps (native and with better e-ink support) are also quite good. I've been disappointed by Linux e-book support on desktop,…

I just ordered a boox max lumi, I noticed that there’s an option to install play services. I am hesitant to do it, except for the security fixes Google apparently brings to Android via these updates. Boox might not update the device in the future which is my main worry.

The Max Lumi is what I picked up this past March. It's big, but an excellent choice for scientific articles, note-taking (a surprise --- not my intended use but one I'm finding I do make use of extensively), or reading comics at full-size.

Onyx updated the device once shortly after it arrived, but not since.

I've not been able to activate the Google Play Store ... I think because of Google's "you must register an account" bullshit, so I've just stuck with F-Droid and APK-Mirror for a couple of apps (mostly Pocket, as the F-Droid version is badly out of date).

Since I install few apps regardless, this is not much of a handicap, and I consider it a benefit.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by tnhh »

danachow wrote: post #176
tnhh wrote: post #109

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As others have pointed out, that doesn't quite work. But the way that I use rsync with my remarkable is to use sshfs to mount the remarkable's filesystem, and then run rsync between the local and mounted filesystems. Works for me without having to install rsync on the remarkable.

Unfortunately you will not get any speed boost in that case, in fact it will be slower having to fetch all the remote side data for small file changes.

Fair enough. It does work for my simple use case: rsync student coursework to the remarkable, mark coursework on the remarkable, rsync back. There aren't many small file changes and USB is fast enough. The real bottleneck is the marking but I'm not sure if I want a package manager to help me with that!

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by rowanG077 »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #191
svat wrote: post #190

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> But I'm taking "notes" to mean commentary. In the context of the reMarkable / this conversation, “notes” means whatever the user draws on the device with the stylus: underlining or circling or crossing-out words or drawing lines between them, drawing pictures or hand-writing in the margin or between lines or on the words, etc: whatever you would or could do with a physical book and a pen/pencil. (A primary design g…

It's a small subset of possible notes, but it's a very large subset of notes that are likely to come into existence.

I don't think so. The entire point of remarkable is to interact with the text. That is also How I have seen people use them at Uni. It's more like 99% of notes are tightly coupled to the text.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by thaumasiotes »

rowanG077 wrote: post #219
thaumasiotes wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a small subset of possible notes, but it's a very large subset of notes that are likely to come into existence.

I don't think so. The entire point of remarkable is to interact with the text. That is also How I have seen people use them at Uni. It's more like 99% of notes are tightly coupled to the text.

> The entire point of remarkable is to interact with the text.

You might be surprised. I just ordered one, and for me the point is to read scanned PDFs of large books.

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