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I was expecting something of a « hack » and was a bit disappointed to read once again that eink is still so expensive.

Buying a industrial printer refurb could even make sense economically at this point. With the added bonus of displaying the full week front pages.

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This made me go “But I have a fair amount of disposable income, how expensive is ‘expensive’ exactly?” So I RTFA’d.

Folks, an eInk display the size of a newspaper broadsheet costs 2300 euro, purchase ramen accordingly.

32" eInk wall art, or a 16-core Ryzen 9 workstation with 128GB of RAM. Let me think, hmmm, I guess I can't really put a price on impressing my hipster friends.

Where can you get a workstation like that for $2,300? Is that building it yourself out of parts? Last time I looked into getting a machine like that it seemed to cost more like $4,000+.

$2300 is a reasonable estimate if he builds it himself.

Self-build can easily meet those specs (minus OS + monitor + peripherals).

Example $2333 build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/t4FjZZ

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