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Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by fsflover »

noduerme wrote: post #428
alemanek wrote: post #303

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Adding an additional comment here for a little extra visibility. I would absolutely love, like really love, a USB-C portrait monitor version of this. If I could just plug this in to my existing laptop and use it for reading specs, technical docs, …etc that would be amazing. Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such. So buying one of those for work use would take like a year…

I second this. I really enjoy reading and writing on an Onyx e-ink tab, and I like the full Android functionality, but I can never use it for work or even for personal email logins, because I don't trust their custom Android build. I would be somewhat more inclined to trust Daylight than Onyx, but any custom OS is too potentially vulnerable to backdoors for my use cases. Something like this that you could load your o…

> Something like this that you could load your own Linux flavor onto

Did you consider PineNote?

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Post by lloeki »

sodality2 wrote: post #265
card_zero wrote: post #255

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Why did you say "less addicting"?

One common psychological trick addictive social media uses is high saturation color, as it causes our monkey brains to enjoy it slightly more. This is monotone and I’d assume that’s a relevant feature point

That, and at night a LED device is literally putting a flashlight in direct line of sight, which does not help in making one sleepy (even with night mode stuff cutting some blue light it's still a flashlight, albeit tinted) so more potential for extended late hours doomscrolling. OLED is kind of better than LCD but still.

Comparatively eink relies on ambient lighting (backlighted ones have it backwards in that regard)

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by liendolucas »

SamBam wrote: post #427
liendolucas wrote: post #171

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Is it 100% open source? Or is it a device that I'm going to be locked in like mobile phones? Are any chances that the price goes down? I think now this is a factor that prevents me from buying it.

What would lock you in? It's Android, most of your data on apps is going to be saved to the cloud on individual accounts, and pdfs are going to be yours. I'm not sure what would lock you in.

That's absolutely something I do not want after paying almost 800 dollars. Why do you assume that I want to sync my data to the cloud? I maybe want to rsync my stuff to another device of my own. Will I need an account to access the Android store? Again something I don't either want and dislike. And finally will I need to customize it to have root access? I also don't want to do that, I should fully own the thing and do whatever I want. That's what I meant.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by hurril »

Happily interested in this, I discover that they have broken the scrolling on the homepage about this for reasons. This tells me that since they have never tried their own homepage, they don't really care about usability so their product is probably not going to be very good.

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Post by ohmyiv »

soulofmischief wrote: post #420
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #388

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I'd recommend giving grayscale mode a try not only during bedtime, but all the time! My Pixel has been set this way for a couple months and it has decreased my mindless phone usage by simply making the phone more boring overall, without any new device or major sacrifices. I became concerned that I'd turn it off when I temporarily needed color and forget to turn it back on, so instead I used Tasker to listen for L-R s…

On my Pixel using GrapheneOS, I can go into Accessibility settings and enable gesture support for toggling Grayscale support, without the need for Tasker. I'm unsure how other Android ROMs stack up but I imagine stock Pixel has this setting. It's a great feature, just swipe up from the bottom with two fingers whenever I need color.

> I'm unsure how other Android ROMs stack up

I'm _almost_ certain that comes with any Android ROM from 9.0 up as a standard accessibility setting. All my Samsung devices have had it for a few years.

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Post by [deleted] »

Zuiii wrote: post #506
goda90 wrote: post #486

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Looks like this is essentially an Android tablet. Not quite mainline Linux but lots of software options.

I am only using android as a compromise because it can run the bare minimum software I need and I couldn't find a similar device that runs standard Linux. Unfortunately, Google appears to be adding new limits to what software on Android is allowed to do with each update. I don't think android will continue to be a viable option for me for much longer. Standard linux support is likely going to be mandatory. Whether it…

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Post by wuschel »

Kichererbsen wrote: post #530
divan wrote: post #85

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Any chance of the A4 size device and higher DPI in the future? Will pay any money for that. A4 e-ink has considerable audience that doesn't know they need it – people who read papers. All the academia is formatted for A4 and stored in PDFs, which is pretty unreadable even on 10". People literally print them on paper to read. I currently enjoying A4-sized Boox Tab X and it's a game changer, as I read a lot of papers a…

yes, academia should totally love this, but my experience is that they just all got used to reading papers on their laptops or tablets. but I would totally love this. in fact, I have a remarkable tablet just for reading "papers" ( ahem Dungeons & Dragons PDFs). but switching quickly between pages is tricky there...

That depends. Back in the day, in my research institute, it was common practice to print out the papers that should be read thoroughly - after skimming them on a Laptop screen.

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Post by kqr »

cypherpunks01 wrote: post #388
wzyboy wrote: post #379

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On Pixel phone, there is a Digital Wellbeing setting that can turn your screen into Greyscale mode during bedtime. It is said to discourage the use of social networks and helps you sleep better.

I'd recommend giving grayscale mode a try not only during bedtime, but all the time! My Pixel has been set this way for a couple months and it has decreased my mindless phone usage by simply making the phone more boring overall, without any new device or major sacrifices. I became concerned that I'd turn it off when I temporarily needed color and forget to turn it back on, so instead I used Tasker to listen for L-R s…

Thanks for the recommendation! I don't have a big mindless phone usage problem but I'll give it a shot anyway and see what happens.
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