X-twitter puts their x in the top right of the box. Talk about your dark patterns. I just noticed that.
ReMarkable Paper Pro
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good news for you! The ReMarkable is build on Linux and you can direct access to the whole system via SSH!! They even give you the su password so you can do _anything_ you want with it! You can break the custom integrations that they created or even brick the whole device. But nothing is stopping you from logging into the system and modifying anything you want. There's actually a whole ecosystem of 3rd party mods and…
Oh, the marketing gave me a much different impression. How far does it go, do you know if you can get a different distro on there?
You probably could, but you'd have to find a way to port the display stack or write your own.
Edit: here's one of the big sites for 3rd party software for the remarkable https://toltec-dev.org
Edit2: Here's someone running doom on the RM https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/gkktxy/de...
Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro
#193Just my perspective, but I returned my Remarkable 2 - I don't think I personally had a compelling use case for it.
Ultimately this thing is not going to magically make you super creative and productive. Frankly it's easier for me to be more productive by using my laptop. I prefer typing notes because I can keep up with what my brain is thinking. I prefer reading books on my computer with the Books app. If I'm trying to work something out visually I'll use my sketchbook which I have at my desk.
But this is just how I like to do things. You might be different. I really liked the Remarkable but it just didn't work into my workflow.
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#194Loving the dark pattern that it "starts at $579" and then the 'buy now' page tries to default you to adding on additional options that bump that up to over $700...
A big issue is that it requires a new pen. The earlier pens are not compatible. I use a 3rd party pen with the RM2, much better ergonomics, but not clear what now will work.
The new pen looks to be battery powered, whereas the old one didn't require a charge. They might be doing something fancy for better writing and gesture detection.
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#195The things I don't like about my rm2 are: - how fast the nibs wear out - how inaccurate the screen is - the screen update rate - infinite pages It sounds like they might have fixed the nibs. The rest of it is up in the air. I think infinite pages might be workable if the update rate is better, but it's also got bad ergonomics. It's far too easy to accidentally trigger a scroll. It was bad enough when all you could do…
This is pretty much all of my concerns as well. The top like 2/3rds of mine is pretty accurate on the tip of the pencil when writing, but on the bottom 1/3rd it's off by about 2mm and it's freaking obnoxious. It makes me hate writing on it to the point where I've gone back to real paper. I do occasionally use it for reading papers and other page-sized PDFs, but it's really not worth the cost for writing.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
there is no OCR on device fullstop, which in itself would be fine if it happened async in the background. You can use the OCR feature only in the companion desktop app, explicitly selecting pages you want to run the process on. The result is better than it used to be but still not great and, importantly, it does NOT seem they make any difference if you later on do a search on the device
Well, you can do OCR while using the device but... it's not on device. The device has to be connected to the Internet for OCR to work. I've never checked where does it connect to do it, as I never use it...
but the result is not subsequently used for full text indexing and searching (on device or on desktop) therefore it's useless
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can ssh into the remarkable and copy files via scp.
Yeah. Still way more effort than Kobo: plug it in, drag and drop.
I've switched to exclusively using SSH on my Kobo, because I find it less effortful. The connection procedure consists of enabling wifi on the Kobo and clicking on the sftp bookmark in my file browser.
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#198Feels ridiculous that we've had Kindles since 2007 but we've still got no A4-sized Colour E-Ink Tablet in 2024.
Sony made one a while back but I've never tried it, and it's as expensive as the remarkable if not more. https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/design/stories/DPT-RP1/ https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/sony-digital...
The DPT-RP1 line was acquired by Fujitsu and is now sold at the Quaderno. The hardware has been updated a bit in the Quaderno Gen 2, including a Wacom digitizer. They're still great devices, and the same open source software for the DPT-RP1 (dpt-rp1-py) works with both Quadernos.
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#199Not that trash Kaleido faux-color e-ink, very nice. This may be the first legitimate color e-ink tablet with good (EMR; see: S-Pen, Wacom, old style Thinkpad) pen input.
According to the video [0], the pen needs to be charged and I thought EMR pens don't. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uyh6KSYVJ4
There are quite a few samsung pens, which can be but don't need to be charged.
That is, the writing works without charging but "air gestures" etc. additionally work via bluetooth or something and do need additional charging.
That said, due to the fact that it does have an eraser, I would still guess that it is EMR but probably with a softer tip (e.g., the galaxy folds had special pens; other emr pens are "compatible", but might damage the crease, so they are not officially compatible).
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Remarkable 2 and gave up it almost solely because it didn't support USB mass storage, making it really annoying to transfer files We had hoped to buy these for all our paperless office employees, and gave it up almost solely because it was far too easy to transfer files. If they deliver a device with on-device encryption (as this claims) and sync or manual transfer tied (and locked) to company-owned storage, we'd b…
Let me ask you this in all seriousness and with minimal snark - do you confiscate employees paper notebooks when they leave the company?
We expect people to have a labbook per project. They are logged when handed out, and signed back in at the end of the project.
For a science/engineering firm, this sort of arrangement isn't uncommon, because stuff you do in the lab leads to customer deliverables.
Of course, people can also do things electronically, which they increasingly do.