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Good news for you! The ReMarkable is build on Linux and you can direct access to the whole system via SSH!! They even give you the su password so you can do _anything_ you want with it!

You can break the custom integrations that they created or even brick the whole device.

But nothing is stopping you from logging into the system and modifying anything you want. There's actually a whole ecosystem of 3rd party mods and software for the ReMarkable!

Oh, the marketing gave me a much different impression. How far does it go, do you know if you can get a different distro on there?

You probably could, but you'd have to find a way to port the display stack or write your own.

Edit: here's one of the big sites for 3rd party software for the remarkable https://toltec-dev.org

Edit2: Here's someone running doom on the RM https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/gkktxy/de...

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