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I bought a ReMarkable 2 a couple of years ago with far higher hopes of hackability than it ultimately ended up supporting. Ended up selling it a few months ago after it just couldn't fit into any of my usecases.

I think ReMarkable is wasting a TON of potential at their price/form factor/ux. A device can be powerful without sacrificing simplicity and singularity of purpose.

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Have you seen these? https://usetrmnl.com/developers

I was thinking about picking one up and giving it a shot.

cheers, im on the TRMNL team.

looks like reMarkable runs linux so in theory our OSS lib would do the trick: https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-display

which can then point to one of several OSS server clients we offer: https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byos#implementations

I did end up buying one! I really love it, and though I haven't hacked much on it, I really haven't needed to. If it's something you're interested in, you won't be disappointed.

I have been rocking a Daylight computer for about a year now. It is my primary mobile device, and I am writing this very comment from it. I highly recommend it.

That's not an e-ink device though, right?

I was trying to find an e-ink tablet, amazon kept recommending me the magic notepad from xppen. It looked good, but I wasn't sure what that cryptic "x-paper display" was. The wording is just vague enough to make you think it's an e-paper display, without committing to that detail.

It took going through comments to find out that it's not an e-ink display.

The Daylight computer seem like that too. So what do you think of the display? Is it just another LED screen, or does it approach e-ink in any way?

I really hated how they marketed that tablet. Some weird statements about how it will transform your life, all while making meaningless comparisons about framerate by just not acknowledging the difference between e-ink and transflective LCDs (to the point I found it intentionally misleading).

Might still be a good product though, of course.

It's selling point is a lack of features. There's no web browser, no Instagram, no Facebook or Slack. No messaging. Just a digital piece of paper. No distractions. If you give me a way to get reddit on there, the device is ruined.

It's BS.

It doesn't support non-Latin languages, not even having a keyboard for them. Its handwriting recognition barely works, and it lacks a good system to organize notes.

The hardware is awesome, but their software is terrible.

That's a clear case of PEBTSAC [1] as it is not the device which decides whether those mentioned time wasters are able to do their master's bidding but the person using the device. Sellers of 'premium' devices which are specced-down so as not to be able to run those things are guilty of the same crime as sellers of 'light' products which replace nutritious ingredients with water or air while selling at a 'premium' price. Just eat less of the good stuff instead of being suckered into paying more for less. The same goes for these 'premium´ devices which only do one thing and often do that thing badly.

[1] s/Keyboard/Touch Screen/

> same crime as sellers of 'light' products which replace nutritious ingredients with water or air

The analogy, in this case, would be replacing NON-nutritious ingredients with water or air.

That wasn't its selling point for me. I installed KOReader on mine and have been quite happy with the result, but expect to move to a PineNote in the near future, as I'm tired of jumping through someone else's hoops to control my own hardware.

I didn't want a web browser either. I wanted access to my calendar, or some way to set the lockscreen to my calendar. I wanted a live syncing folder of images/pdfs that wasn't tied to the subscription remarkable walled garden. I wanted a way to read rss content, instead of setting up a complex automation to sync things over ssh.

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