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

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Post by bariswheel »

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…

I'm surprised by this and it sort of came out of nowhere, how'd you all beat Amazon and other big tech to the market?

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Post by pjerem »

card_zero wrote: post #372
brailsafe wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like you're... defending the exploitation of compulsive behavior. Most media platforms are designed to exploit the same behavioural patterns s gambling, and it makes perfect sense to be able to restrict the likelihood of undesirable possible intrusions. If you want to isolate the act of reading or doing anything else without the possibility of being drawn over to an endless stream of videos, seems like a joyful…

Well no, I'm defending the enjoyment of colorful games. Or picture books, or comics. And I'm disputing the idea that compulsivity is prevalent and that it's beyond the power of the user to say "this is dumb, I'm stopping now" when the only way the app tries to exert control is via little colorful animations. More realistically, I think it's irrational mindsets such as "I need the world to like me" (or something, don'…

> Well no, I'm defending the enjoyment of colorful games. Or picture books, or comics.

Nobody is defending the opposite. In my case, I created automation with shortcuts to disable the great filter when I open some apps and to reenable it after I close them. Those apps are currently Photos, Camera, Smart Comic Reader. I could have added games without issue but I just don’t game on phone.

I love Colors (like any human). What I don’t love is being addicted to e.g. Reddit. And turning on greyscale works on this. Call it maybe placebo if you want but the result is there.

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

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Post by Hendrikto »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #124
floundy wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The lack of any 3rd party hands-on video reviews was the biggest red flag that halted any consideration I had to purchase this product.

they're coming!! but i appreciate your skepticism until there's more video proof, i am the same too many broken promises by other tech cos, i understand we have to earn your trust there should be more video reviews coming out on twitter though from early customers / testers .. if i wasnt drowning in launch, id try to find you a link, if anyone else could help !

What do you do with all the time you save on capitals and punctuation?

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Post by meisenhus »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #124
floundy wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The lack of any 3rd party hands-on video reviews was the biggest red flag that halted any consideration I had to purchase this product.

they're coming!! but i appreciate your skepticism until there's more video proof, i am the same too many broken promises by other tech cos, i understand we have to earn your trust there should be more video reviews coming out on twitter though from early customers / testers .. if i wasnt drowning in launch, id try to find you a link, if anyone else could help !

Publishing a sped-up video without telling us that it's sped up really killed all my trust I had in you guys. Seriously, what were you thinking? Your main and only selling point is the speed. So much so that that needs to compensate for lack of other features like resolution and color. And then you open the door to cheating accusations? You can now 100x say that it's really fast and no ghosting and all that, but your ethics seem to really believe it was no big deal, so at each turn down the line I'll have to question, perhaps here they also didn't think it's a big deal to pull some dirty trick?

So disappointed. :(

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Post by Zuiii »

goda90 wrote: post #486
Zuiii wrote: post #395

I have the remarkable and the main reason I don't use it and use an android tablet (with a normal screen) instead is because of the remarkable's bad software support; can't sync documents and notes securely (e2ee) using standard tooling. Put money in supporting mainline linux distributions and I will buy this in a heartbeat. Many would.

Looks like this is essentially an Android tablet. Not quite mainline Linux but lots of software options.

I am only using android as a compromise because it can run the bare minimum software I need and I couldn't find a similar device that runs standard Linux.

Unfortunately, Google appears to be adding new limits to what software on Android is allowed to do with each update. I don't think android will continue to be a viable option for me for much longer. Standard linux support is likely going to be mandatory.

Whether it's from daylight, pine64, framework, or any of the other OEMs working in this space, I don't care. I'll gladly pay anything for a good tablet that does what I need it to do.

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Post by MrDresden »

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…

The webpage seems to be broken on Firefox Android.

As soon as the user clicks the burger menu and then dismisses it, scrolling is non functional.

Otherwise congratulations on the launch.

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Post by webprofusion »

snypher wrote: post #326
sodality2 wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I often use ctrl-win-c shortcut for black and white mode in Windows, it's great to rest the eyes.

That's awesome, I had no idea that was a feature, using it now!
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