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#552Oh - did they remove SSH access? With a RM2 you could go to
Settings > General > About > Copyrights and licenses
and you were shown an IP address and the root password for SSH..
No they didn't - you just have to activate "Developer mode" (forcing a factory reset, so don't set up too much, you'll have to repeat it all..)
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#553Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with the USB web interface of the remarkable, though? It is quite spartan, but I haven't updated mine in ages, so I imagine they have improved it. The workflow is plug -> web browser -> remarkable IP -> drag and drop.
What does the customer gain from having a web interface you have to navigate to by IP rather than a simple external storage device that shows up like a flash drive?
I think one reason for the web interface is that the device stays usable. If it would export a block device then it would need to unmount the file system on itself or at least block changes. If I remember correctly in the old days before MTP, all Android did this, making storage on the device itself unavailable while making it available via USB.
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#554Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can access my RM2 with SSH via WiFi or USB-C, if that's what you mean. But the official reMarkable client is not available for Linux, which I find a bit odd, since it is a Qt-app and the founder of the company apparently is an avid linux user. I have got it working via Wine, but it keeps breaking after updates. I do not use it often though, as I mostly just upload new files via the website.
> But the official reMarkable client is not available for Linux, which I find a bit odd, since it is a Qt-app and the founder of the company apparently is an avid linux user. If I had to guess it's probably because they want to keep it closed-source and that is a nightmare with linux distro packaging. I have also used the tables via the webapp like you for many years.
These days they could package it as a Flatpak and cover a lot of distros with out a lot of duplicate work. I mostly use Flatpak for those types of apps these days.
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#555Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every single update has made my reMarkable tablet worse. I’ve stopped using it as a result. I have absolutely no idea why they went all in on keyboard input, when the whole freaking point of the tablet was that you could write on it like paper.
I've been using a reMarkable since the first release and have never experienced what you describe. Yes, the updated focus on typing more recently - but what else can they really do for the writing experience without new hardware? Lots of updates I don't care about, but none that make it "worse".
> but what else can they really do for the writing experience without new hardware?
Great handwriting conversion, search in notes and converted text (not just relying tags to find stuff), great pdf annotation (not just highlighting and keywords here and there, but rather space all around the page for note taking), digests with commands, creating and extracting parts of text using parsed annotations, etc. I have a RM2 and I barely use it because it is simply too barebones and lacks precisely these features that I would expect from such a device.
Instead they're focusing on making it into a poor mans laptop.
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#556I 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…
Buy from Amazon. Returns are a breeze.
Too risky anymore. Is it an open box item sold as new? Is it a counterfeit? Is it actually just a brick that was sent in a box to you?
Plus, Amazon controls everything, and if we get philosophical here I'd rather support individual companies and buy my products locally if possible. I can order my furnace filters from Amazon. They are a tiny bit cheaper, but it's getting increasingly difficult to go buy them locally at a store. This trend has only gotten worse and while maybe a furnace filter is something you can wait to get a replacement for, there are other items where it's just better if you can get them the same day, particularly those that you might not be entirely sure is exactly what you want/need, and/or you're choosing sizes.
But our ability to make that type of purchase is going away because people blindly buy from Amazon, which is often more expensive than buying locally now. Gone are the days that Amazon was cheaper.
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#557Earlier quoted context omitted.
An eink device not being great at reading books is silly. These devices are especially compelling for academics, but Remarkable has no links to reference managers like Zotero. It also is radically dependent on your computer or phone for getting material on/off, when an integration with Readwise for instance would fit naturally into people’s flow and not require cluttering up the filesysten with temporary material lik…
> An eink device not being great at reading books is silly. No it isn’t. Remarkable is primarily marketed as a replacement for a paper notebook. If that’s not far and away your #1 use case you’re going to be disappointed in it. > The thing doesn’t even support comic book archives And my bicycle doesn’t ride well on ice. I don’t blame the bike.
It's a processor and a screen. There's nothing about the physical device that prevents it from doing well at reading ebooks or comics. It's purely software. Forcing me to carry both a tablet for reading and a tablet for writing is ridiculous, especially at an ~$800 price point.
I can't mark up documents in a paper notebook, but it's marketed as one of the chief uses for Remarkable. Why? Because it's not "a paper notebook" it's electronic paper -- ie it's meant to do everything paper does. If I can print it out, I should be able to read it without much trouble, and would expect a good experience doing so for such an expensive device.
You don't have to go full Boox with the entire Android ecosystem to do that if you don't want to. But as an example of what a great reading experience on epaper can be, I'd refer you to Neoreader from Boox, the default reading app on their platform, which has excellent support for epub, comic books/manga, and PDFs.
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#558Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like 20% VAT
The duty on tablets & e-readers in Canada is 0% regardless of which country the tablet / e-reader was made in, according to: https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/dte-acl/est-cal-en... (there's a specific duty category for tablets and e-readers ) Sales tax is 13% in Ontario, so even with that, the exchange rate should be 1.35 * 1.13 = 1.53 not the 1.60 exchange rate they use. I'm assuming shipping is already incl…
Shipping definitely costs more, and there may be a small buffer in there for currency fluctuations. Margins on hardware are slim.
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#559I had an iPad Air, which I changed for a reMarkable 2 and I couldn't be happier! I see a lot of people here commenting about the limitations of it, and I get it. For me personally those limitations are features. My needs are mostly note taking and reading technical PDFs, and for that the reMarkable is fantastic. I used it extensively while taking Calculus, which, it was great to use as many pages as I needed and to w…
> My needs are mostly note taking and reading technical PDFs, and for that the reMarkable is fantastic. I do both of those and I dislike the RM2. There's little space for notes above and below the PDF page, no infinite canvas. I have more space on the back of a printed PDF (to the left of the current text page) than in the RM2. So, all note taking in a PDF for me is just keywords, while I would much prefer to put tex…
I don't know, maybe using the layer function for the PDF's. So it may overwrite the text in the PDF, but you can hide the note-taking layer temporally, when reading.
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#560Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does the customer gain from having a web interface you have to navigate to by IP rather than a simple external storage device that shows up like a flash drive?
I think one reason for the web interface is that the device stays usable. If it would export a block device then it would need to unmount the file system on itself or at least block changes. If I remember correctly in the old days before MTP, all Android did this, making storage on the device itself unavailable while making it available via USB.
Yeah, that would be an issue with presenting the device as a block storage device.
The web interface also has a couple of other advantages: the tablet simultaneously listens for ssh connections, and can be used over Wi-Fi, IIRC? Though it could also expose a "USB HUB" with both the network interface and block storage.
I just wish we had a more ubiquitous "network file storage" protocol. The tablet itself could offer NFS, but mounting it under different operating systems would be a pain, requiring manual user intervention.