Some of the posts planned for the series are: Dasung Paperlike HD-FT teardown, Thinkpad T480 teardown, Creating the prototype, Installing and configuring NixOS, M-x e-ink-laptop-mode
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach out.
Thank you for writing it up.
I look forward to your project as well. Best of luck!
Have you experimented with the Dasung Display much? I tried one and found it too noisy at displaying text.
Admittedly it was just connected to a Mac, but it deterred me from keeping hold of it.
Also - does ‘M-x e-ink-laptop-mode’ refer to a real thing, or is that a placeholder for something you are going to write?
I've used the monitors for a few years now, and some adjustments need to be made and vary on the operating system used, the fonts/text being one of the settings to change.
The M-x e-ink-laptop-mode, was about emacs. I spend most of my time in emacs, and I intend to write an "eink-laptop-mode" that adjusts color, text, makes it more suitable for writing, etc.
I found the Mac desktop didn’t work particularly well. I was considering trying a text only setup - e.g. Linux with i3, but never got around to it.
> The M-x e-ink-laptop-mode, was about emacs. I spend most of my time in emacs, and I intend to write an "eink-laptop-mode" that adjusts color, text, makes it more suitable for writing, etc.
That’s what I guessed. I agree e-ink needs software adaptation to get the best out of it.
Congrats on the build and write up, it looks awesome and I'll be following your posts!
I did a screen conversion on a thinkpad t430s which I still have (not Eink, just a better LCD). Do you know of any 16:9 eink displays that take eDP as input? Or anything that would fit in a 14” chassis?
Just beginning to get into the eink world so some direction would be super helpful. Would definitely be up for swapping one into my thinkpad.
Context: https://hands-on.cloud/why-you-should-never-ever-use-nixos/
The complaints of the article ends with any Linux distribution and docker. I'm not sure which distributions would use docker in their own porting process. Most distributions have a huge distinction between users and maintainers and probably no one who is a target of that article is aware of the pains of maintaining a Linux distribution when they agree traditional distributions are fun.
Scrolling is pretty much worse case. The more of the display you repaint the longer it's going to take.
There's also a trade off...getting faster refresh means worse resolution and contrast.