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Post by caslon »

starfallg wrote: post #269
caslon wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't live in China. The Chinese are many miles away. I am not worth nuking, and I am not at risk of being involved in a genocide. I live in a surveillance state. I don't really like being surveilled. Big companies share data between each other, and it influences my ability to do things like obtaining a house, or getting insurance. The Chinese have nothing to do with my data. Western companies, on the other hand, c…

Short term thinking at its worse. China isn't going to stop at its borders. Their tech companies not only answer to their government, they are just as greedy western big tech, if not more. Your info is going to be sold to the highest bidder, plus shared with the Chinese government.

"You're thinking short-term and you're bad for it. Here's a bunch of unfounded speculation, and I'm going to throw in "plus shared with the government," despite your information already being shared with the United States government, which isn't at risk of collapsing any time soon, and will never be part of China, nullifying the risk of your data being taken by the Chinese government."

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Post by black_puppydog »

wraptile wrote: post #146
youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

You can turn these all off. Lack of features is not a feature imho - no mather how hard people try to sell this.

It must be great to live a life in perfect control of your impulses. Alas, as a mere human, being able to turn off all notifications, also means I can turn them back on when I get bored with what I'm doing.

Purposefully putting myself in a situation where any dopamine rush is more than a click away is one of the best feelings I've had in years. So yeah, I'd consider that a feature.

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Post by bitL »

pantulis wrote: post #190
bitL wrote: post #144

10.3" is too small for a paper replacement - writing notes on such devices is too imprecise if one e.g. annotates PDFs etc. I got the latest Onyx A4 and that's the size that can be finally used to replace paper for all types of documents.

Is it the Boox Max Lumi 2? I'm considering getting one, any observations?

I use it only for reading PDFs, annotating them, writing notes and reading newspapers - for that it's a pretty good device. There might be some warts in a bit non-standard Android interface and also MS Office doesn't work without license (13" is too large for free versions), but overall I am happy.

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Post by xibalba »

caslon wrote: post #267
xibalba wrote: post #258

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I don't live in China. The Chinese are many miles away. I am not worth nuking, and I am not at risk of being involved in a genocide. I live in a surveillance state. I don't really like being surveilled. Big companies share data between each other, and it influences my ability to do things like obtaining a house, or getting insurance. The Chinese have nothing to do with my data. Western companies, on the other hand, c…

The CCP has long been building a database on people in all countries of strategic interest (U.S., UK, Austrlia, India, etc etc). And not just the prominent people. All the people. [1][2][3][4][5]

But hey, tell us again how China is only interested in the Chinese.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-a-...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/china-spent-years-coll...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/xg89aj/china-has-been-doing-...

[4] https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/94493-china-has-st...

[5] https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/969532277/china-wants-your-da...

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Post by DenisM »

lhl wrote: post #39
rich_sasha wrote: post #2

Phenomenal news. I’m hoping competition drives prices down. Remarkable 2 looks neat but so expensive. Now there’s choice.

I've been using a Onyx Boox Note 3 for a couple years now (I previously had a Remarkable 1 but it didn't stick for me) - it has Android 10 (w/ Google Play support) and even an SDK for responsive writing for 3rd party apps. It's been great for taking notes, and adequate for reading books and papers (although even a single color for highlighting would be a huge improvement). Note, that Onyx is notorious for violating t…

Which one has the best DPI?

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Post by martin_a »

schwartzworld wrote: post #32
martin_a wrote: post #24

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People usually recommend the "Boox" devices for that. As they are running on Android you can therefore, after activating it, access the Play Store to get a browser running... Maybe that's the way to go.

You can download einkbro which has optimizations for eink screens.

I think I'd prefer to run Firefox with uBlock Origin etc. on it, though. For one, that enables synching with other devices, on the other hand, solid ad-blocking will probably be helpful with performance in general.

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Post by dang »

xibalba wrote: post #275
caslon wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't live in China. The Chinese are many miles away. I am not worth nuking, and I am not at risk of being involved in a genocide. I live in a surveillance state. I don't really like being surveilled. Big companies share data between each other, and it influences my ability to do things like obtaining a house, or getting insurance. The Chinese have nothing to do with my data. Western companies, on the other hand, c…

The CCP has long been building a database on people in all countries of strategic interest (U.S., UK, Austrlia, India, etc etc). And not just the prominent people. All the people. [1][2][3][4][5] But hey, tell us again how China is only interested in the Chinese. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-a-... [2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/china-spent-years-coll... [3] https://www.vice…

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Post by philliphaydon »

pasabagi wrote: post #125
philliphaydon wrote: post #115

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China is currently having about 18 border disputes. Amongst all the non land grabbing stuff they are doing.

That's ridiculous. Japan has a load of border disputes, and pacifism is literally written into their constitution. Most countries in east asia have them.

Japan claiming a few island is different to China claiming the whole south china sea and expanding its imaginary 9 dash line.

So trying to bring Japan into this is just ridiculous.

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Post by system2 »

morsch wrote: post #3

RRP €499 (around $558) according to https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/28/22954498/huawei-matepad-p...

I don't believe the material cost is even $50. It is niche and not as demanded as tablets. It is such a shame these things are not mainstream because of the price.
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