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

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Post by fastasucan »

card_zero wrote: post #306
coldtea wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For starters, it doesn't come with the whole "light show", it's black and white. "Minimalist" types often suggest turning your smartphone into B&W mode (usually an accessibility setting), precisely to reduce temptation to watch videos, social media, and such.

Elsewhere in this thread I see comments that mention "low distraction", "calmer", and something about iPhones frying kids' brains. This all looks like snobbery to me, based on the association of monochrome paper with novels and writing and intellectual pursuits. In the 18th century we were scared that novels would fry the brains of young women, but times have changed and now it's iPhones that are sinful, and monochro…

>I think I might be going off the idea of e-ink, as a result.

The main benefit of e-ink isn't what you mentioned in the post, imo, it is that it is great to read with in everything from direct sunlight to darkness, which is less straining for the eyes.

Having something mainly for reading is also a nice thing for us that easily get distracted away from that.

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Post by londons_explore »

Benanov wrote: post #709
londons_explore wrote: post #415

This screen, but built into a proper laptop please. I want to actually do work from outdoors.

The only laptop that fits the bill is the OLPC XO. The XO-1 is 18 years old... and yes I did work outside a few times, with rdesktop

I still use my XO-1 for work I can do with a console (via SSH with vi, tmux, etc).

Alas, a web browser is kinda required for modern dev work, and an 18 year old machine with 128 MB of ram doesn't cut it. rdesktop, x forwarding, vnc, etc are all too slow.

I considered removing the screen and trying to transplant it to a modern machine, but it looks like many months work to rebuild the electrical interfaces and custom pixel layouts etc.

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Post by 1oooqooq »

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…

why not a developer version so people can get Linux on it and you will have the true eink tablet killer?

do you plan to monetize on customer lock in (only reason amazon and google don't open their android forks)? or fear of tech being stolen by having drivers open?

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Post by panzagl »

hallman76 wrote: post #682
alemanek wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such From a compliance POV what's an acceptable alternative? Would some unix variant be any more palatable?

I would think the main thing would be no network hardware and ideally no network stack. After that, a minimum of local storage- nothing persistent outside of firmware, and certainly nothing that would provide any type of file system visible to the host computer.

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Post by nullderef »

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…

I've been doing the same for a few months, as I wanted to get an eink phone but wasn't sure how annoying it'd be. Although there's some limitations, like charts or video calls, I got used to it quite quickly in the end. Really recommended, you can just enable it in display settings (at least on my Samsung).

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Post by MBCook »

e-_pusher wrote: post #444
MBCook wrote: post #404

I wish it had page turn buttons. I bought an Oasis entirely because of the buttons. Once again Amazon has killed their only reader with buttons. They clearly don’t care much about Kindles in general, they’ve had software issues like missing features forever that Amazon doesn’t care about fixing. This lacks ghosting, the screen and CPU are fast enough not to be obnoxious when doing literally anything (low bar, but Kin…

Source: I was the chief hw designer for this project. The tablet does have page turn buttons! There is a side button and a top button. The side button in particular is nice as a page turn button.

Oh great!

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Post by hedora »

divan wrote: post #85
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…

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…

I’m guessing letter would be fine too, given how many times I’ve printed out European papers here in the states.

A stylus would help a lot a that point too. So would a hole in the tablet where you can store the stylus — my apple sits and collects dust with a dead battery. I bought it for occasional use, and it’s never ready when I need it, even at home.

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Post by barbariangrunge »

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…

The only thing that gives me pause is the android os, which makes me uncomfortable for privacy reasons
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