> They don’t officially support non-cloud use.
Stop spreading FUD, they literally have a page that lists what you can do without cloud.
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...
Stop spreading FUD, they literally have a page that lists what you can do without cloud.
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...
These are cloud services.
> Handwriting conversion
> You need to be connected to Wi-Fi and logged in to your reMarkable account.
> Read on reMarkable
> Once you’ve logged into your account and sent content to your reMarkable paper tablet, you can review, annotate, and focus on the task you’re working on without any distractions.
Almost every use-case requires some sort of connectivity to a cloud. No mention of USB.
That notwithstanding, looking at the page you link, let's look at each heading and what it says.
Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive integration
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Integrating-with-Go...
"Step 1: Log in to my.remarkable.com and click the menu in the top right-hand corner."
Handwriting conversion
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Convert-handwritten...
"You need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network and logged into a reMarkable account (my.remarkable.com) in order to use handwriting conversion."
Read on reMarkable
Chrome:
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Read-on-reMarkable-...
"You’ll also need a reMarkable account to use this feature."
Microsoft Office:
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Read-on-reMarkable-...
"8. Log in with your reMarkable account."
Screen Share
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Screen-Share
"Your reMarkable needs to be paired with the cloud"
Send by email
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Send-by-email
"Note: You must be connected to Wi-Fi to share files from your reMarkable. You won’t see an option to send a file if you’re not connected to Wi-Fi and signed into an account."
Tags
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Tags
You can tag pages without a cloud account. It's useful but at best an anciliary feature.
Limited cloud sync
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Connect
You need an account.
> Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user [0]
i.e. "someone else's computer". I want the core advertised reMarkable features to be on my computer(s). Not half mine, half theirs.