Why not use paper and pencil?
Paper is great for notes, bad at rendering arXiv
Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
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Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
#42I'm still using my remarkable from 2020. Has been receiving updates since AFAIK. Happy customer.
Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
#43Why not use paper and pencil?
Pencil and paper are very definitely better, until you need to carry them around or search through them.
The ease of filing/retrieving across a lot of notes is a huge advantage. Also the amount you can have with you. The sheer weight of paper is a huge pain. With this you can carry hundreds of books and search the notes you scribbled in the margins.
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#44Is part of the article missing? It ends abruptly.
As did the reMarkable support for that device...
Bad take. The rM2 is still receiving software updates and likely to for the next 3-4 years.
All that happened is they stopped selling it. Source: https://remarkable.com/products/remarkable-2
Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
#45There's a project called codexctl that can help you run an offline update to the latest firmware https://github.com/Jayy001/codexctl
Someone on Reddit also pointed out there is a support page for the clock issue https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Unable-to-update-re...
Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
#46This is the achilles heel of modern tech. Devices are just so brittle and if it is not online 24/7 on returning back online, you need to perform incantations to get things working. Long shell life is a taboo in the tech world where 5 years is a long time.
Yeah it's kind of comical the framing is that a device needs to be "revived" after four years. As SWEs we should probably all be a bit embarrassed for our trade, even in the alleged golden era of LLM induced productivity.
I have all sorts of offline digital&analog mechanical/optical devices which just work decades and decades later. The weak point in any of my old tech is when theres a software component that needs to be reverse engineered and ported across multiple generations of CPU architecture / OS / API deprecations.
I have 60 year old records, 35 year old CDs, 25 year old minidiscs that all still work fine. Properly developed film negatives are still fine decades later.
Despite all the warnings about media impermanence and lifespans, it's always the software that screws it up first. I've lost more content from digital / streaming services because it simply vanishes than because a piece of physical media failed.
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#47Maybe this will restore my faith in digital tablets. I made notes, saved them. Only for the next morning to find my device out of battery and the notes missing. I don't get it, feels like I was zapped by some evil overlord that didn't want me recalling what I had written for the next part of my cartoon. Now just use good ole paper and pen.
The tablet stopped being able to update just from sitting unused for a few years. That really decreases my faith, at least in reMarkable.
Except it was able to be updated. Looks like mostly a time issue and having to restart the update service, possibly due to an old bug - or maybe a reboot would have fixed it.
The rm2 is still receiving software updates. The fact that this would have been impossible on more closed tablets, or indeed most mobile phones should show reMarkable in a positive light surely?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What exactly is a "general purpose device"? An eInk tablet is pretty far away from being "general purpose" as far as I can tell. Should I buy a Ford Ranger and demand that the company makes it easy to convert it to a lawn mover?
Examples: it sucks as an ereader, even though the hardware is super capable of it. It doesn’t have a built-in dictionary to look up words or check spelling. You can’t make links between documents or to different pages in the current document. Their hardware is top notch, but I found the software to be so hamstrung that I returned mine after a few weeks. Basically, if you want to have exactly a physical paper notebook…
Please point to the marketing page where it's primary purpose is declared as an ereader.
My car has four wheels, that doesn't make it a good ice-cream van
Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
#49Manually updating a config file to enable the web server was a wholly unnecessary step as that's just a toggle in the "Storage" section of settings.
reMarkable software has its faults, but I keep coming back to them for the best-in-class hardware, developer-friendly platform, which itself spawned an active developer community. Could it be an easier platform to develop on? Sure. But that hasn't stopped a huge number of supported mods being made available
Re: Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
#50woah 4 years is considered obsolete? My kids still using thinkpad 430 from 2013
Where is is obsolete? It's still receiving software updates and likely to for at least 3-4 years. Even after that it's not going to magically brick itself