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Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17788476/lenovo-yoga-book...

That's not at all what they are asking for. The e-ink 'display' is the keyboard, not the display for term/graphics. Also: > Memory: 4GB RAM Why do laptop manufacturers insist on being stuck in 2005?

Because the price of RAM went up by over 250% since late 2016.

Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

#52
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I would love to have something like this in front of every meeting room at work displaying the occupancy of the current day.

https://www.visionect.com/blog/digital-signage-how-we-built-... Google also did something like this but I can't find that write up.

Found it, the Google project was called Radish there was a write-up about it in 2008

https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish

Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

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Because RAM is cheap, and human developer/testing time is expensive.

RAM is only cheap if your consumer can actually run your product. As manufacturer's have decided 4GB is good enough for most people... Maybe the developer is the problem.

> As manufacturer's have decided 4GB is good enough for most people

"640K of memory should be enough for anybody."

Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

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That's not at all what they are asking for. The e-ink 'display' is the keyboard, not the display for term/graphics. Also: > Memory: 4GB RAM Why do laptop manufacturers insist on being stuck in 2005?

I run on 4GB and it's good enough for : browsing, python development of GUI, looking at picture, listening to music, serving music, word processing, making patches to KDE, running a virtual machine, etc. Oh and it's 2018.

I'm not arguing that 4GB is not enough for running a Linux distro (I'm sitting at ~800MB of RAM usage on i3 with qutebrowser, cmus, vim, and more!). But 4GB is not enough to do anything beyond that, especially for developers. It's also almost certainly not enough to do much of anything on the OS it actually ships with (windows 10).

Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

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Is anyone aware of a netbook-form device with an e-ink display? I've always felt that'd be my ideal device for writing on-the-go; especially if it'd run vi, nvi or vim.

There is this thing https://getfreewrite.com/

No terminal support out of the box, at least not that I can find

Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

#56
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Afaik you can't use the e-ink as a normal display though, bummer

I wonder what this machine will do if you install other OS' onto it though

Probably not much, unless someone reverse engineers the drivers.

Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

#57
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buy a dasung paperlike pro 3[1] e-ink monitor and place it infront of your laptop screen. Retina display on __E-INK__. slim like a book, just carry it wherever you take your laptop. can double as dual monitor. [1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-3-a-smart-e-ink...

If you are looking into that product, you should at least check out the Boox Onyx 10/13 inch e-readers, which are just superior both in terms of price and features. (They too support being used a regular HDMI screen (with no drivers needed, unlike dasung device) - but you also get a fully-fledged android-based e-reader in that same product.

Take it with a grain of salt since it's from Dasung themselves, but they have a demo video showing the relative responsiveness between their display and the Onyx e-readers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdr6GD6enQc

Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

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post #47

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RAM is only cheap if your consumer can actually run your product. As manufacturer's have decided 4GB is good enough for most people... Maybe the developer is the problem.

> As manufacturer's have decided 4GB is good enough for most people "640K of memory should be enough for anybody."

"RAMs cheap, everyone should have more than enough."

Platitudes are cheap. Ignoring the real world, and allowing cheap excuses for either developers or manufacturers isn't acceptable.

With 640K, a lot of developers built decent software. They didn't decide that the manufacturer was wrong and so their software would simply be a resource hog, as that was easier for their developers. But they also asked for more too.

Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

#59

I think this is a great idea! Small (3x6”) e-ink displays are now widely available on alibaba and eBay. I’m very weary about the refresh rate. The ones I see available now look like 6s total refresh by the looks of them.

weary == leery?

Fixing the world, one typo at a time.

Re: PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink

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You seem to know the market a bit. Can I buy an e-ink device that I can hang on the wall or put on the table and that will display today's appointments from my calendar for me?

You can do this with a rooted Kindle: https://lifehacker.com/add-weather-and-google-calendar-infor...

But this doesn't automatically update itself, no?
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