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I'd love to hear your definition of "woke". I'm not aware of any relationship between increased fossil fuel usage and normal definitions of "wokeness", which is usually used as a pejorative to describe people who care about other people's feelings and dignity.
I'm curious: how does Amazon's foray into this sector affect anyone's feelings? Do people want a single-purpose device like this, or would they rather have a multi-purpose Kindle (or iPad, with more functionality but much less battery life)?
The big differentiator in these products is drawing latency. Currently there's only two with barely acceptable level IMO: Remarkable 2 and Supernote a5x/a6x, both around 30ms. I can't find any numbers for the Kindle Scribe so I guess no one has tested yet. But I also bet if Amazon was proud of the number they'd be shouting about it - especially if it was better than the others. So Remarkable and Supernote are probabl…
This is all pure speculation though.
I do have Supernote and the writing is as good as it gets for me paper-wise, my brain is fooled into thinking I am proofreading text printed on paper, which was all i wanted from that device.
Nice. Lost me at subscription. (Edit, to clarify - not because of what it offers, but because the very existence of a subscription tends to create wrong incentives for the company so to try and push people onto them. Maybe not now, but this will happen. Guaranteed.) Also, I don't see a properly supported way to actually get docs to/from the device without a cloud service, theirs or someone else's. For example, [1] sa…
I had one before they introduced the subscription. Pretty much soured me on the device. The software was still kludgy, and it was clear the direction they were going wasn’t a direction I wanted to go in. Pity, because the hardware was pretty good. But moving things to and from the device sucked.
I bought one hoping to try it with the expectation I could return it using their 100-day guarantee. Ultimately decided the experience was too painful for my usual workflows in terms of reading and annotating my PDFs for grad school and work. Their return process was the most PAINFUL return experience I've ever had to go through. You have to specify exactly what you're returning from their online menus and they use a…
reMarkable 2 is a scam. Not only the storage is so extremely limited, the team knows it and it is heavily reliant on you paying for a subscription for more storage. That and on top of the sneaky price increases as you purchase the product tells you that it is a great scam. The the full price of a new reMarkable 2 is $450 - $550+. The features doesn't justify the price at all, making it an overpriced scam. You might a…
It’s got 6.41 GB of onboard storage. I’ve been using mine heavily for note taking, reading articles, and some pdf markup and still use less than 2 GB. I guess if you needed to work with a large number of media rich pdf, it could become a problem. But there are solutions. Either officially supported - dropbox et al. integration, or you can just ssh into the device and set up a syncing scheme of your liking. So I reall…
I bought a rm2 a while back but abandoned it when I discovered it had extremely weak security: no fde, a weak remotely-resettable 4 digit pin, no local file syncing (doesn't appear as a mass storage device when plugged in as a usb, doesnt support standard file transfer protocols), non-e2ee (!!) cloud syncing (their company can see my notes unencrypted). Now I use an android tablet that I locked down + synching and i…
> weak security I think security is important, but unless you're going up against a state actor with physical access, I think this isn't a credible threat at this time.
Nice. Lost me at subscription. (Edit, to clarify - not because of what it offers, but because the very existence of a subscription tends to create wrong incentives for the company so to try and push people onto them. Maybe not now, but this will happen. Guaranteed.) Also, I don't see a properly supported way to actually get docs to/from the device without a cloud service, theirs or someone else's. For example, [1] sa…
FWIW, there is a tiny webapp on the device that you access when you follow the instructions above. You do not need to install anything and it worked perfectly fine for me so far. Also, you can ssh into the device and even get root access. I have not tried it yet but I guess scp would work as well. Last but not least: They recently changed their subscription service in a big way, opening up a lot of features that were…
Since when do things cost 50% more in euros than in dollars? I've always treated it as 1:1 in my head for convenience, but 280 USD or 350 EUR is a major difference. (Edit: Internet says it should be €280.) Not sure if I'd use this device but it seems nice, and for 250 it's worth thinking about. For 350 it's not even a question.
Since when do things cost 50% more in euros than in dollars? I've always treated it as 1:1 in my head for convenience, but 280 USD or 350 EUR is a major difference. (Edit: Internet says it should be €280.) Not sure if I'd use this device but it seems nice, and for 250 it's worth thinking about. For 350 it's not even a question.
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Supposedly higher latency and worse experience when writing(also supposedly). I own Remarkable 2, and unless they can replicate same paper feeling, it won’t a replacement for Remarkable. But it is a nice eBook reader, yes.
The kindle will be using wacom emr which is more then adequate for most people. I never had a problem with the technology before and I don't think it will be practically worse. I can't imagine most people expect it to feel like writing on paper.