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Post by tjbiddle »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #876
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…

Appreciate the appreciation and thoughtfully laid out idea! I think we’re actually intrigued and open to build this! What helps to know: - is 1080p ok? - what’s the minimum size you’ll be ok with ? - aspect ratio? - any other important details?

If you did this; would it be at all possible to push a software update so we could use the Daylight tablet as a monitor? Or are there hardware limitations?

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Post by liamkearney »

amelius wrote: post #230
boochiboo12 wrote: post #107

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we've built our own PDF parser / renderer, so we have a pretty good beta PDF reader app we're building next up would be epub reader / support and then building our own notetaker & typewriter app (though google docs, lex.page, IA writer are pretty good) and many more services and apps, like actually finally good handwriting recognition

Why not use existing libraries, like Poppler?

Agreed. This screams scope creep.

"We've built our own renderer" would make sense to me, perhaps specific handling is needed for the device's display.

However rolling a parser does not without further context, it screams: "I want to encounter some dumb non-specification stuff and crash for no reason"

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Post by natsucks »

geraldwhen wrote: post #603
natsucks wrote: post #347

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I've been using the light phone 2 off and on for the past year. It's too painful to use.

How so? I’d like to hear why

the OS is slow. the keyboad is laggy and lacking in spatial accuracy to the point where i have to slow myself and retype text messages constantly. don't get me wrong - i'm glad they made it. but i've preorded the Minimal phone and am really looking forward to trying it.

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Post by normalaccess »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #26
normalaccess wrote: post #16

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Hmmm, a little disappointed but I'm I still very interested. My favorite smart watch was a pebble and they used a transflective display, I loved it. If this is more of the same but refined and bigger count me in.

It is a Godzilla pebble watch I hope you will be pleased

Well shucks... Ordered.

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Post by makoConstruct »

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…

How about a legal commitment to open source after a delay? I think this would be a compromise that a lot of companies could accept if it would increase sales today at all.

(Ideally there'd be some way of requiring an immediate release as soon as the company loses the ability to continue maintaining or developing the software, but I'm not sure how you'd formalize that.)

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Post by jkestner »

For everyone who’s curious about the screen tech like me, you’re getting tripped up on the marketing term “epaper”. From Daylight’s own comments here, it appears to be an LCD display. Hence good refresh rate (where the limitation may be in what the silicon can drive), no display when off, and mere “days” of battery life. The work is in giving it eInk-like readability.

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Post by normalaccess »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #793
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…

You should probably eliminate the "blue light free" claim. Per results on clinicaltrials.gov, blue light conclusively does not impact sleep outcomes. This is complex for a layperson to investigate, but you have to search for insomnia, sleep disorders, wakefulness during the day, and only studies with results. There are many uncompleted studies - it is typical for studies that have no chance of producing an interestin…

Even if it's not true, I like amber light at night better. No science, just "feels" better. Same with the daylight bulbs, I think they are icky at night.

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Post by cwoolfe »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #47
aresant wrote: post #32

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Instantly bought this to support your mission A "calm" computer interface is such a welcome idea and quality pursuit Participating in the good of the digital world - information access, communication, creativity While mitigating the bad - always on notifications, bio-hostile blue light interface, doom scrolling etc I hope that this V1 release of your philosophy is successful enough to keep building To that end what a…

holy moly dude you are articulating our value prop and philosophy even better than we can glad to be on the same team! long term goals/plans - make a whole ecosystem of healthier, distraction free computers.. phones, laptops, monitors, workstations, watches, PDAs, epaper whiteboards, etc - make awesome software that we can offer as public goods, funded by cash flow from hardware and memberships etc - make 'magical an…

Great work! I've spent the last year listening to parents, teachers, and administrators voice their dreams and issues with technology and I think what you all have done here could add a lot of value in the education (EdTech) market in a few years. Educational e-ink tablets are being tested in China this year: https://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/aoc-launches-educ...

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Post by 0x457 »

boochiboo12 wrote: post #878
0x457 wrote: post #791

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I use a hdmi capture dongle with iPad to turn it into a monitor. Not quite what you want, but as an option.

Which dongle do you use? This is the best option at the moment till we can afford a more expensive chip in the next gen that accepts hdmi in Still on the hunt for a really good video capture / hdmi capture dongle

I'm using this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Z3XDYQ7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
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