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This makes me miss the Chumby, which had such untapped potential and was given up on so quickly. I have many uses for a smart, controllable and low-code screen in my house, and barely the time to figure it out myself. Very glad this project came across my page today!

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I make an off-the shelf eink calendar. You can also develop your own content and then serve it to the screen as a .png or .jpeg on a web url.

https://shop.invisible-computers.com

That privacy policy... at least it is honest and upfront about it

What’s the part that bugs you?

Your comment made me worried that I am doing something wrong. Maybe I can clarify something?

There are two privacy policies, one applies to users of the website only, while the other one applies to users of the product. Which is the one that you are referring to?

Not OP but I guess it’s this link: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/pages/ccpa-opt-out

> As described in our Privacy Policy, we collect personal information from your interactions with us and our website, including through cookies and similar technologies. We may also share this personal information with third parties, including advertising partners. We do this in order to show you ads on other websites that are more relevant to your interests and for other reasons outlined in our privacy policy.

> To opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information collected using cookies and other device-based identifiers as described above, you must be browsing from one of the applicable US states referred to above.

I’m currently in the EU and your policy is a clear breach of the RGPD. You have no right to collect and share my information for any purpose that’s not strictly needed for your service without my explicit consent.

To be honest I just used the Shopify template for the website privacy policy. I think the policy overstates what’s happening, in reality there should be a cookie banner for EU users. (Yay…)

I admit that’s on me and I should clarify the policy.

I want to switch away from Shopify anyways, and then I will also try to find a way to attribute clicks to marketing campaigns that doesn’t involve 3rd party cookies.

I just didn’t have the time yet.

No there should not be a cookie banner. Just do not collect any information from the website that is not necessary. You are selling a product, not hosting a free website, there is absolutely no reason my information should be shared for advertising with any third party.

But yeah if you want to keep that shit in than you should put a cookie banner and make everyone annoyed at you.

I think you’re being unfair.

I’m trying to run a small business.

Building a custom store page is definitely on the list, but until then, I have to make do with what I can buy off the shelf.

Third party cookies exist because that’s how Facebook tracks ad conversions. That’s why they exist, I am not selling web traffic data or anything like that.

The alternative is not advertising on Facebook or building my own link-based attribution integration with Facebook. But see above: I am trying to run a small hardware business.

I suppose I should be lamenting the state of the web as a whole but it really does not feel nice to visit a website of a very cool product and see things like https://shop.invisible-computers.com/pages/ccpa-opt-out.

Do you really have no way of opting users out by default if you want to use fb advertising?

But then I cannot use fb advertising.

I don't see the screen dimension listed anywhere. Am I overlooking it or is that detail missing?

It’s a bit down on the product page.

The display is 7.5 inches.

I’ll update the description to make this more prominent.

Can you give me an idea of what a png/jpg would look like on one of these? I only see the calendar on the page...

It's a monochrome screen, pictures will probably need to be dithered to 800x480 1-bit, something like this:

https://www.crystalfontz.com/product/cfap640384a00750-640x38...

Looks great. Small typo on your web site: "iCalendar setup is only possibly through the iPhone app".

Looks really cool! Can I use it totally locally on a non-internet connected VLAN? Or do I need to use an app / cloud service?

Looks great! Something I have planned to code for Pimoroni's Inky Frame (7 color) is a calendar firmware that syncs with Google Calendar etc.

> I have many uses for a smart, controllable and low-code screen in my house, and barely the time to figure it out myself.

I also don’t have time to figure it out, so I’m probably just going to buy a used iPad and put it on the wall. I’ll get a nice bright screen and anything I want to see just needs to be viewable in a web browser.

I used to have an iPad (3rd gen) on the wall, then it died. I bought the cheapest new one to replace it, but the old Android tablet I had around had better bluetooth reach, so it went on the wall instead.

Old android tablets are notoriously unpatched against all kinds of things. It's easy to be paranoid that some passing foot traffic will infect it with a bluetooth worm, and you'll be none the wiser.

I'm accepting the risk for now, as I do enjoy configuring Home Assistant on it, and looking at the rainmap, but there are times when when a full tablet is overkill. FrameOS is for those cases.

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