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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by Scene_Cast2 »

barrell wrote: post #185
Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #138

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I've had a remarkable tablet. I'm very much waiting for the Supernote A4 x2. There's also BOOX Tab X and BOOX Max 3 if you want a 13.3" today.

I check the Reddit post (iykyk) every month for updates on the Supernote A4. It still says this year!! :fingers-crossed:

There's no way they'll make it to this year. It took them a year to get A5X2 from prototype design to "shipping in September".

For those not in the know, here's the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/rxddxj/some_info...

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by tjoff »

pcl wrote: post #291
tjoff wrote: post #172

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Why not script it over ssh (wifi), preference or is not as simple as I imagine? (never used one but the ability to get shell and be able to rsync files is one of the reasons I consider a remarkable). I could be misinformed though, haven't researched it a lot.

Firmware updates blow away any customizations. So you need to bootstrap things again after each update. Updates can be deferred, so the process isn’t too disruptive. Edit: oh, yeah I see what you’re getting at. That direction could work, and I used to do that years ago, as it turns out, but these days I am frequently not on a familiar WiFi network when I’m using the tablet, so cabling has been more practical.

Ah, if I'm on the go I think I'd hotspot on my phone and sync via termux, but that is great to hear!

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by breck »

DennisAleynikov wrote: post #292
breck wrote: post #257

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The Daylight screen is _amazing_ for reading technical books. The pen isn't anything special, and I don't like it's thickness, but good enough to get the job done. Here is a photo I took from earlier this week: http://hub.scroll.pub/daylight2/

Afaik we put the same kind of high polling rate Wacom digitizer that remarkable uses. Any quirks you notice between it and the daylight would be fascinating to note! Wacom is the most fluid digital pen system on the market from what we could find, especially compared to Ntrig, USI and other approaches. Also you can use other pens other than the one we included in the box

> Any quirks you notice between it and the daylight would be fascinating to note!

Okay, my Remarkable 2 is currently broken (screen breaks more than I wish. They don't have Apple's level of reliability yet .3rd replacement), so I can't test directly at the moment.

> Also you can use other pens other than the one we included in the box

Oh cool! The pen in box is good enough for me, but now I'm going to look into getting a thin one. Thanks!

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by WillAdams »

fumar wrote: post #155

It has 229 pixels per inch based on the E in Gallery 3 display. On E ink’s site, the Gallery 3 product specs says support is up to 300 ppi. Remarkable should’ve gone with the higher resolution.

One rumour is that Amazon negotiated exclusivity for the higher DPI screens.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by j6m8 »

hcaz wrote: post #236
lolinder wrote: post #188

Does anyone with a ReMarkable have any experience with hacking on it? Can you write software for it, or are you pretty much stuck with what they offer out of the box? And if you can't write software for it, any recommendations for a hackable e-ink tablet?

Seems like you can, but not clear how easy it is - https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

You can write software for it but reMarkable as a company has been downright adversarial to the open source community and MOST of the tools on that Awesome page are now defunct because reMarkable has obfuscated API endpoints or changed file-standards to prevent third party efforts.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by j6m8 »

keiferski wrote: post #202

This looks pretty interesting and definitely something I’d like to try out for reading - but, on a different note, I’ve been using ChatGPT to scan in my handwritten notes and have been very impressed with the results. So much so that I’m increasingly less interested in a clunky expensive device that isn’t always accurate, and more interested in a way to efficiently scan in and organize paper notes. I haven’t tried th…

ha — that's exactly what I've been working on on a separate reMarkable project posted earlier today [1] :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41437740

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by WillAdams »

echelon wrote: post #194
jonahbenton wrote: post #107

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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.

Candidates include:

- Wacom EMR w/ Bluetooth (not likely)

- Wacom AES

- NTrig

- something from the Universal Stylus Initiative: https://universalstylus.org/

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by selykg »

kweks wrote: post #338
selykg wrote: post #289

I previously wrote about how difficult it was to return and get a refund on a Remarkable 2. It was hell. I would highly recommend avoiding them like the freaking plague if you're at all on the fence, because it's a hellacious process to return one. I also assume that if you were to ever need to use the warranty for any purpose that requires returning the product it's going to be the same thing and also awful. Buyer b…

I appear to be in the minority where the RM2 is a perfect fit for my needs - but I can confirm that their support is aggressively anti-customer, and also non-compliant with EU consumer laws. My device broke in warranty ( Despite my attempts at polite out-reach to individuals at the company, including C-level, everything was ignored until a lawyer friend sent a formal letter - and suddenly everything was magically res…

Ugh, that sucks. I had hoped my experience was a one off situation but I've heard from others over the past few years that they have had the same type of problem.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by j6m8 »

nihzm wrote: post #125
Rinzler89 wrote: post #51

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This feels like something some Chinese company can put out at much cheaper price, just a barebones large e-ink tablet, for hackers and tinkerers, with some linux distro with touch support, unlocked bootloader and ssh, powered by a microcontroller with mainline linux support, no fancy apps, no cloud service and no subscription, where they just supply the HW and the community on GitHub builds the SW for it, a-la RPi.

> with some linux distro with touch support, unlocked bootloader and ssh, powered by a microcontroller with mainline linux support, no fancy apps, no cloud service and no subscription I am also not a fan of the subscription model & pricing scheme but I guess that is how they want to pay back their investors. However, besides this they are (relatively speaking) also a pretty open company with a sizable community on gi…

The reMarkable company has been super adversarial to a lot of these tools, and the file standards and API have been moving goalposts for years. MOST of the tools on that Awesome list are defunct because the primary open source tools for getting data to the reMarkable cloud (rmapi and rmapy) are no longer maintained — the primary maintainers both cite reMarkable's moving target API as the final dealbreaker. SUPER sad.

I've been hoping to write my own now that the dust has settled, but it's definitely a MAJOR project yet to be done by the FOSS community.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by croes »

BadHumans wrote: post #277
donatj wrote: post #184

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Let me ask you this in all seriousness and with minimal snark - do you confiscate employees paper notebooks when they leave the company?

I worked at company that required all paper notebooks to be handed in and destroyed. There are entire companies based on destroying sensitive paper documents.

They know that smartphone have cameras?
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