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

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Post by cypherpunks01 »

freedomben wrote: post #400
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #388

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I'd recommend giving grayscale mode a try not only during bedtime, but all the time! My Pixel has been set this way for a couple months and it has decreased my mindless phone usage by simply making the phone more boring overall, without any new device or major sacrifices. I became concerned that I'd turn it off when I temporarily needed color and forget to turn it back on, so instead I used Tasker to listen for L-R s…

I'd love to do the same thing, so if you have time to explain the Tasker steps I'd definitely make use of them :-)

I put the steps in a sibling comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40465686

Cheers

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

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Post by hallman76 »

alemanek wrote: post #303
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…

Adding an additional comment here for a little extra visibility. I would absolutely love, like really love, a USB-C portrait monitor version of this. If I could just plug this in to my existing laptop and use it for reading specs, technical docs, …etc that would be amazing. Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such. So buying one of those for work use would take like a year…

> Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such

From a compliance POV what's an acceptable alternative? Would some unix variant be any more palatable?

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

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Post by mbreese »

hallman76 wrote: post #682
alemanek wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adding an additional comment here for a little extra visibility. I would absolutely love, like really love, a USB-C portrait monitor version of this. If I could just plug this in to my existing laptop and use it for reading specs, technical docs, …etc that would be amazing. Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such. So buying one of those for work use would take like a year…

> Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such From a compliance POV what's an acceptable alternative? Would some unix variant be any more palatable?

In some industries, anything that “computes” or has a data connection is strictly regulated. If data can move in or out, it needs to be verified.

So, if you want to avoid those validation steps, it would need to be a dumb device without an OS. Like the parent said - just a monitor.

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

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Post by milesward »

hallman76 wrote: post #682
alemanek wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adding an additional comment here for a little extra visibility. I would absolutely love, like really love, a USB-C portrait monitor version of this. If I could just plug this in to my existing laptop and use it for reading specs, technical docs, …etc that would be amazing. Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such. So buying one of those for work use would take like a year…

> Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such From a compliance POV what's an acceptable alternative? Would some unix variant be any more palatable?

What about a firmware flash that nukes the Android part and makes it behave as a display, which hopefully you can flash back to your OS if policy or usecase changes?

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

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Post by zoobab »

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…

Could you add a GPS bluetooth to it? Looking for a way to replace paper maps...

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

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Post by yareal »

schaefer wrote: post #657
adiM wrote: post #525

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Some links: https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/s/ZpVE0dTM98 https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/s/LonNpgGAIF https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/s/YqUXfrZhnm https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/s/xmurkiHGam

Alright. You are putting together a compelling argument for both skepticism and caution before placing an order for merchandise from the goodereader store. (not something I planned to do) -- How do you feel about their youtube channel where they review all the various devices in this market segment? Specifically, have you ever found their reviews to be inaccurate? Do you know of any alternative source of reviews in t…

They specifically said, "their reviews are fair". Maybe you missed that part of their post?

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

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Post by saurik »

riazrizvi wrote: post #520
saurik wrote: post #493

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I don't understand how any of this makes sense given "and you hold patents".

Where does the company mention patents?

That would've been a fair response, but you just kind of ignored that part of the comment you were replying to.

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

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Post by a-saleh »

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…

How is the Android experience stacking up?

I might actually be in a market for something like this, as I recently cracked my old Boox ... but as I did use few e-ink devices, there was often problem with running Google Play.

I do understand the need for customizing the shell, even with fast fremerate, it still is a Black/White device, but that often means sacrifices had to be made in the accessibility to the rest of the ecosystem and I am not really in the mood to side-load apps :D

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

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Post by no_wizard »

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…

What’s the chance of a color version of this product coming out anytime soon?
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