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Is this suitable for reading technical pdf textbooks (math, programming, etc)? Last I checked the screen size was smaller than A4 and ReMarkable had a focus on writing and taking notes rather than displaying books... So any suggestions here?
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Do you mean hack the box in "go to this page in the settings where it tells you the root password", or something else?
No, in plain filesystem access, mounting it like any other file system on a mass storage, putting there my pdfs, pulling them back etc. I do look for a simple pdf/ebook reader with e-ink display large enough to fit A4 without zooming back, with essentially the same features of Evince/pdf-tools and so on. NOTHING more, nor less, nor with extra layer of complexity for commercial purposes.
But anyway, you don't have to hack anything, they literally give you all the access you could ask for. Run samba on it if you want.
* I'm sure there are exceptions, but they're not common in my experience.
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No, in plain filesystem access, mounting it like any other file system on a mass storage, putting there my pdfs, pulling them back etc. I do look for a simple pdf/ebook reader with e-ink display large enough to fit A4 without zooming back, with essentially the same features of Evince/pdf-tools and so on. NOTHING more, nor less, nor with extra layer of complexity for commercial purposes.
Nothing* does mass storage these days, because you a) don't want to run your filesystem as FAT32, b) have two devices mounting one disk at the same time. But anyway, you don't have to hack anything, they literally give you all the access you could ask for. Run samba on it if you want. * I'm sure there are exceptions, but they're not common in my experience.
I have no issues mounting Linux fs, since my OS...
> have two devices mounting one disk at the same time
There is exactly NO reasons to allow mounting when the device OS is shut down and there is non reasons to not allowing mounting a data only volume who can be balanced read-only on one or another side. It's simply an arbitrary choice.
Anyway, as far I know their OS, a custom GNU/Linux distro is open in the sense of the license but I even need to host their own "fake cloud" just if I want a no-someone-else service needed setup and the unofficial repo is not much more exiting https://toltec-dev.org/stable/
Being open to me does not means "hey you have the code" like AOSP, is being damn open EASILY, the device is mine, I handle it as I handle a desktop computer.
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The guys my dad goes to the diner with still have cassette players in their trucks. When they look around they see other cassette listeners.
I read blog posts
My point was that overall, “blog post readers” are now in the minority — even if they tend to hang out with each other.
And it’s not surprising that supporting the needs of “blog post readers” is no longer a priority for many companies — including Remarkable.
I chose Supernote because the battery is replaceable. Like a real notebook, I don't care about accessing the internet. I care about reading, writing, cloud storage, and product life-time. If I wanted to access the internet, I'd just use a real computer.
How does cloud storage work without the internet?
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AOSP is free and clear of Google beyond the obvious fact that a lot of engineers paid by Google contribute to it.
Can AOSP be installed on the Boox (10.3) though? I thought the bootloader was locked… In any case, i think going this route might be very finicky, i’m afraid it would become a new hobby just to get it up and running / and keep it updated.
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AOSP is free and clear of Google beyond the obvious fact that a lot of engineers paid by Google contribute to it.
Can AOSP be installed on the Boox (10.3) though? I thought the bootloader was locked… In any case, i think going this route might be very finicky, i’m afraid it would become a new hobby just to get it up and running / and keep it updated.
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> I have absolutely no idea why they went all in on keyboard input Yeah it sucked how they bricked every Remarkable without a keyboard attached and made everybody mail their markers back in.
The update which added all the keyboard features made the writing experience much worse. In particular the hand contact detection was changed in a bad way, so if became very easy to accidentally resize/zoom the display when writing. It got so annoying that I switched to an iPad.