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

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Post by circuit10 »

seanalltogether wrote: post #632
JoshTriplett wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How's the battery usage? You mentioned that it's not bistable and doesn't retain an image on power-off; does that mean the display requires non-trivial power even while displaying a static image? One of the big selling points of my reMarkable 2 is the incredible battery life. Any plans for color? I know it'd be a sacrifice of brightness. I'm still interested despite the limitations.

These types of displays use power to change the pixels, but almost nothing to retain the existing image, so battery life will be wildly variable depending on how you're using it. Browsing the web with nonstop animations versus reading a book will probably show massive swings in battery life.

This isn’t e-ink, it’s a transflective LCD so that’s not true here

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

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Post by freedomben »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #140
kiliantorpey wrote: post #80

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Some more questions about software support. It seems the device is using android. Do you have any plan to support mainline linux kernel? It could allow the possibility to use native linux distro like PostmarketOS ( https://postmarketos.org/ ) for device longevity. Your team could also benefit from delegating some softare support effort to linux kernel team.

we're open to it! we just need to better understand what resources we need internally to support this effort and for the specific mediatek/qualcomm chips we're looking at

Given the level of excitement around this, and the community expertise, if I were you I'd open up as much of the info as you legally can and let the community help. I think there's a decent chance that if you set up the framework, you may not have to do much to get it done. I would:

1. Create a github page where you include as much of the hardware info as you can

2. Include any custom kernel patches that you have for the hardware (I'm pretty sure this is legally required anyway because of GPL on the kernel, so this could double as fulfillment of publishing/distribution)

3. Let people go at it! Early on I expect a community leader (usually a top contributor) will emerge that you can work with to get it done. I suspect you wouldn't have to do a whole lot (beyond information sharing) to get stuff mainlined and even prebuilt distros assembled for the device!

Even if it doesn't work, it's not a big investment and it gives you a massive amount of credibility with the community.

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

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Post by LoganDark »

I'm too late, apparently, I'm only in batch 3 which is arriving in some four months or so. Sigh.

I did buy in though. I have a reMarkable 2 and it's a great device, but the software is super subpar. I'm cautiously optimistic about this device running Android, because that means I can run anything on it.

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

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Post by cdrini »

cdrini wrote: post #656
meisenhus wrote: post #505

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Publishing a sped-up video without telling us that it's sped up really killed all my trust I had in you guys. Seriously, what were you thinking? Your main and only selling point is the speed. So much so that that needs to compensate for lack of other features like resolution and color. And then you open the door to cheating accusations? You can now 100x say that it's really fast and no ghosting and all that, but your…

For future reference, if you're going to make a claim like this, seriously include a link. It's unclear what video you're talking about. Assuming you're talking about the link to a video posted by another commenter further down ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikhailt ), that video was posted out of context. There are a lot of other videos on that documentation page which are not sped up. See here: https://day…

Oops I meant to link to here. This is the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40459851

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

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Post by josmar »

hollander wrote: post #715

We want the monitor, not the tablet. Plus the probably needed software for Windows, macOS ánd Linus to handle the color scheme.

You may want to check this out. It's a monitor using reflective LCD (RLCD)

https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/rE-Monitor

Have not tried myself and have no affiliation. If anyone here used it, lmk how it works

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

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Post by motohagiography »

realize it's a consumer product, and a very cool one. would like to get security information about it so that IT depts can approve it for use by employees.

it's a great personal device, but every lawyer and analyst who wants to use one for company data will be blocked by IT until they get some specs. Android is not allowed in a lot of environments because it's so fragmented and impossible to lock down.

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

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Post by bitcraft »

I might be a minority here, but I don't really consider the Android OS a feature I want. As a Remarkable 2 owner, I've come to really appreciate the long battery life and purpose built OS. There are no "app" distractions, and it has become an essential part of my daily work flow for note taking and e-book reading.

I wish Daylight success, but at their price, its not a compelling offer for me.

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

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Post by bloopernova »

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…

Is there such a thing as a tablet that accepts video input? In other words, use it as a tablet, then connect a mini hdmi or whatever and it turns into a monitor. Disconnect, and it's a tablet again.

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

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Post by unsupp0rted »

alemanek wrote: post #303
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…

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…

(adding my voice) I would buy a dumb monitor of this without thinking. Name your price Daylight team.
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