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Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by leetrout »

I wish you the very best of luck.

I bought a remarkable and while it works well the price is the most remarkable thing about it.

Remarkable is also remarkably unfriendly toward their user base to be built on so much open source tech.

They recently had a IP watchgroup file takedowns for template building materials on figma. Really onerous move given it is perfectly valid nominative fair use to say a template is made for the remarkable 2 the same as you would say something is made for an ipad.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by funksta »

edderkopp wrote: post #178
mattkevan wrote: post #31

Yeah this looks like a cool device. I love my Remarkable, but the lack of backlight and slow refresh rate means it’s not as versatile as it could be. A tablet that has similar screen properties to eink but with a backlight and 60fps would be much more usable, especially at night.

Indeed. Another advantage of this tablet over Remarkable is that it should be possible to set up synchronization with many more cloud services, including Nextcloud. Remarkable is limited to the biggest commercial cloud providers.

Furthermore, reMarkable doesn't actually sync anything. You can download files from the cloud but it's a one-way, user-initiated thing

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by siralonso »

serf wrote: post #257

I'm excited for all these epaper devices for use on my sailboat. Everyone uses tablets + Navionics, but glass tablets absolutely suck in bright daylight. It will be nice to find an ePaper device that I trust enough to use for charts.

Ditto, except in my glider! I would appreciate a slightly smaller form factor, though - the cockpit in the Libelle is a bit... tight.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by e-_pusher »

BadHumans wrote: post #130

I need this to have a dedicated drawing app with layers for me to even consider this. None of the eink tablets right now have good drawing apps even if you can technically do it.

I like Wacom’s own drawing app for sketching!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wacom.bamb...

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by sodality2 »

card_zero wrote: post #255
jimmysong wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As one of the beta testers, let me just say that I really like this device. It's very different than a kindle, kobo or reMarkable in that the refresh rate really makes a big difference. When I show this device to people, I show them how quickly zooming in on a PDF is. It's way faster and more responsive than any e-ink screen and it's way less addicting than the typical laptop, phone or tablet. I'm attempting to make…

Why did you say "less addicting"?

One common psychological trick addictive social media uses is high saturation color, as it causes our monkey brains to enjoy it slightly more. This is monotone and I’d assume that’s a relevant feature point

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by echelon »

leetrout wrote: post #261

I wish you the very best of luck. I bought a remarkable and while it works well the price is the most remarkable thing about it. Remarkable is also remarkably unfriendly toward their user base to be built on so much open source tech. They recently had a IP watchgroup file takedowns for template building materials on figma. Really onerous move given it is perfectly valid nominative fair use to say a template is made f…

> bought a remarkable and while it works well

The Remarkable 2 is slow and clunky and starting to show its age. The refresh rate and CPU were slow when the device debuted, and now they're really feeling dated.

Navigation through menus and sidebars is tedious, and the UI isn't very customizable for my workflow. There's too much clutter for things I never use, and the bad UI won't get out of the way.

The new updates with gestures have broken the original ergonomics. The device now false detects a lot of interactions that I'm not trying to perform.

I'm really hoping for intense competition in this space.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by djmips »

robocat wrote: post #190
boochiboo12 wrote: post #21

Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

> And we built a whole android tablet around it. What is the reason it isn't worth your while to sell the display seperately so other devices can be built using it?

They are trying to sell an entire ethos as well. But also what the other person said.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by djmips »

ddingus wrote: post #246
coolspot wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Much lower margin if you just sell a component.

Still, once their display partner is ramped up, lower margin is still margin. Get it out there through Waveshare or someone similar. I have purchased and made use of several raw displays from them. All, but the big e-ink one have been great to work with. That one has some proprietary interface to unlock the real speed potential and individuals cannot sign the NDA. Grrr..

It's not that hard to start a company on paper.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by coldtea »

card_zero wrote: post #255
jimmysong wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As one of the beta testers, let me just say that I really like this device. It's very different than a kindle, kobo or reMarkable in that the refresh rate really makes a big difference. When I show this device to people, I show them how quickly zooming in on a PDF is. It's way faster and more responsive than any e-ink screen and it's way less addicting than the typical laptop, phone or tablet. I'm attempting to make…

Why did you say "less addicting"?

For starters, it doesn't come with the whole "light show", it's black and white.

"Minimalist" types often suggest turning your smartphone into B&W mode (usually an accessibility setting), precisely to reduce temptation to watch videos, social media, and such.

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