Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

Post by floundy » Fri, May 24, 2024, 10:32 AM UTC

delecti wrote: post #271

modeless wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Week+ battery life, truly always on, sunlight readable, much smaller size/thickness and thus more comfortable than all other smart watches. For me, the use case of a smartwatch is notifications. It lets me keep my phone on silent all the time without missing important messages or calls. Proper filtering is important so you don't get notification spam on your wrist but some notifications truly are important and checki…

Look into Amazfit watches. They're about as close as you can get to a Pebble these days. It also has a bunch of fitness stuff (GPS, steps, heart rate), but you can mostly just ignore that. Mine is just for notifications, stopwatch, and telling the time, and a charge still lasts more than 2 weeks on the original 6 year old battery (I've worn it roughly 23/7 since April 2018).

Post by hobscoop » Fri, May 24, 2024, 10:43 AM UTC

cypherpunks01 wrote: post #388

wzyboy wrote: post #379

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Post by infotainment » Fri, May 24, 2024, 10:46 AM UTC

cookiengineer wrote: post #513

This is really a nice product, but I won't order it unless SolOS and its firmware and drivers are open sourced. I've probably spent far more than 8000 bucks over the years for devices like this, only to have to throw them away eventually because their software got abandoned and they've been so proprietary that they can only function as an expensive brick on the shelf. If the software is closed source, I'd recommend e…

Post by grishka » Fri, May 24, 2024, 11:01 AM UTC

boochiboo12 wrote: post #21

Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

Post by cookiengineer » Fri, May 24, 2024, 11:07 AM UTC

infotainment wrote: post #625

cookiengineer wrote: post #513

This is really a nice product, but I won't order it unless SolOS and its firmware and drivers are open sourced. I've probably spent far more than 8000 bucks over the years for devices like this, only to have to throw them away eventually because their software got abandoned and they've been so proprietary that they can only function as an expensive brick on the shelf. If the software is closed source, I'd recommend e…

While fully open would of course be ideal, I'd settle for an unlockable bootloader. I'm guessing whatever random extras "SolOS" grafts onto Android are probably fairly extraneous, and any vanilla AOSP-based ROM would be perfectly cromulent, provided it was possible to flash it in the first place.