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Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by e12e »

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…

Hm, you can't get the wifi MAC by connecting via USB, and ssh in over USB, then using iwconfig or looking at dmesg?

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by myself248 »

Eeems wrote: post #98
myself248 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Pinenote can't arrive fast enough! I'm sitting on a ReMarkable 2 that I hate because I didn't realize how serious they were about crippling the usefulness of a really beautiful stack of hardware. It's really, Really, REALLY dead-set against letting you do anything useful like use wikipedia or stackoverflow on your ultra-long-battery-life beautiful-display device that you might, I dunno, want to use to look at ref…

Wikipedia is kind of solved[0]. As for stackoverflow, you might be able to use netsurf[1] already, I'm not sure how JS dependent it is. 0. https://github.com/dps/remarkable-wikipedia 1. https://github.com/alex0809/netsurf-reMarkable

Whoah, thank you! I had not run across netsurf in all my looking.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by _e »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #128
a-dub wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

using two partitions in this way on embedded devices has been a trope for a very long time. service/warranty calls are expensive! usually there are three. system a and system b which are updated and flipped and some sort of emergency recovery that either has a factory image or a very light rom that phones home for a new image.

It sounds like Blue/Green deployments.

For the curious... An overview of the Blue/Green deployment model:

https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/devops/what-is-blue-green-d...

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by LegitShady »

necovek wrote: post #139
LegitShady wrote: post #132

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Imho the only thing the iPad loses over Wacom is the shape of the pen (my pro pen 2 is head and shoulders more comfortable to use than the apple pencil). The remarkable pen is not much different than the apple pencil. Wacoms strength is their application support/drivers support which remarkable doesn't have and iPad has its own ecosystem. I suppose also that you can get very large tablet displays with Wacom too while…

I don't have a rm2, but I am intrigued by all the praise for the paper-like feel of the pen/screen combination: have you tried it and not noticed any difference, or are you simply talking based on the specs? Honestly wondering because it's too expensive to be an impulse buy for me, on top of not being available to my country, so I'd have to jump through hoops and pay extra to get it locally, but I am hoping I can rep…

I got a matte screen protector for my iPad with a similar feel. Neither the iPad with the paperlike protector nor the remarkable actually feel like paper, but they do feel better than drawing with a plastic pen on a glass screen. My 16" Wacom display tablet also has something similar applied from factory to provide a texture to it

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by dimal »

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 bought one and I don't understand the love. The device itself is wonderful. It's great that you _can_ ssh into it and do whatever. But by default, you can't even hook it up to DropBox/iCloud/GoogleDrive/whatever. The only supported way to get things off the device is by email, so in effect, in order for it to be useful, you _must_ set up rsync or some other custom process and risk bricking it and voiding your warranty. I'm pretty sure I could do that safely, but for almost $500, I shouldn't have to risk that. I returned mine.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by Eeems »

mintplant wrote: post #134
Eeems wrote: post #95

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gocryptfs is available in toltec[0]. So you could in theory add full device encryption behind a password on startup. I know there has been some work on creating a UI for this kind of setup, but I don't know if anyone has actually released one yet. 0. https://toltec-dev.org/stable/

The UI stuff is here: https://blog.redteam-pentesting.de/2021/remarkable-encryptio...

That's one of the UI solutions You can also find the source here: https://github.com/RedTeamPentesting/remarkable-encryption.

There is also https://github.com/plan5/remarvin

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by anthk »

That's easy comparing to reflash a pocketchip and setting up a pinning kernel because if you upgrade the NAND will bork out as MLC+ubifs it's a recipe for a disaster. On similar ARM devices, I own a wm8850 netbook (armv7l) and I coudn't reflash it with a custom Uberoid "ROM" but oddly enough I could boot a custom kernel and config with a Slackware 14 rootfs. Some port from PostmarketOS exists (Tokio techbook), albeit is not for the same model, but setting up a similar u-boot woudln't be too difficult. My major issue is that that device is now semi-bricked and I think I could restore it with PXE, as it doesn't show anything on any reflashing trial.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by callahad »

dimal wrote: post #155
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 bought one and I don't understand the love. The device itself is wonderful. It's great that you _can_ ssh into it and do whatever. But by default, you can't even hook it up to DropBox/iCloud/GoogleDrive/whatever. The only supported way to get things off the device is by email, so in effect, in order for it to be useful, you _must_ set up rsync or some other custom process and risk bricking it and voiding your warra…

> you can't even hook it up to DropBox/iCloud/GoogleDrive/whatever.

Dropbox and Google Drive integration arrived with the latest update earlier this month.

> The only supported way to get things off the device is by email

I think you're forgetting reMarkable's own built-in cloud storage which syncs the device with the desktop and mobile apps. Additionally, you can access a built-in web interface on the device whenever it's connected to your computer via USB.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by thaumasiotes »

laserbeam wrote: post #150
kayodelycaon wrote: post #91

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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…

> It just renders the epub to pdf and then throw the pdf into the note-taking app. I found it weird at first... But then you realise you're supposed to be able to write on the pages any time. The moment you support general epub rendering your pages are no longer fixed and your notes should move around as well. The moment you change your font size, all your notes, drawings and highlights no longer match the underlying…

> Realigning your notes is an impossible problem to solve

Kindles have solved this problem, but instead, notes are not visible on the page but must be specially consulted.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by stefan_ »

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…

You could also of course turn off the ineffective MAC filtering, was this option considered?
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