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I'm with you on the disappointment. Devices like remarkable and onyx book do give me hope that we might be going somewhere (finally). I remember there was a co
by e12e 7y ago
I'm with you on the disappointment. Devices like remarkable and onyx book do give me hope that we might be going somewhere (finally).
I remember there was a company that sold laptops with hybrid screens - that could do e-ink when used outside - but I think the screen manufacturer folded.
Good color would be nice - but it doesn't look like anything will beat oled in that department for the forseeable future.
If the remarkable or onyx devices were a bit more open - I would probably buy one. But as it is, both appear to be stubbornly making it difficult or impossible to install modified kernel/os :/
- jay_kyburz 7y agoI'd just like to be able to write apps for the remarkable. Even a free one.
- johnday 7y agoYou can! For example, I wrote an app launcher for the device which allows you to boot other programs, or the default interface.
- e12e 7y agoHm, have they updated their documentation and tooling since I last checked? How do you distribute it? Is your project open source?
- jay_kyburz 7y agoI wrote to them and they told me it was not possible.
- xnzakg 7y agoThe remarkable actually gives you the root password you can use over SSH in the device settings. Also runs Linux (even has vim installed by default)
- e12e 7y agoRight, I saw that. But how do I compile and install a patched kernel? Or patched ssh for that matter? That was what I couldn't quite figure out last I looked - but maybe I looked in the wrong place?
- sohkamyung 7y ago> I remember there was a company that sold laptops with hybrid screens - that could do e-ink when used outside - but I think the screen manufacturer folded. Could you have been thinking of Pixel Qi and its LCD panel that could operate in transflective mode in daylight? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi
- e12e 7y agoThat's it. I think there was also a small manufacturer that shipped laptops with e-ink (or pixel qi) screens for use outdoors, like on a sailing boat - but I forget the name. Something with "sun"?
- hondadriver 7y agoSunBook https://web.archive.org/web/20120219172031/http://www.cloversystems.com/SunBook.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20120219172031/http://www.clover...
- e12e 7y agoYep, that's the one.
- VvR-Ox 7y agoThank you I appreciate that. Yes I think so, too. I bought an Onyx and so far it does well with tasks like note-taking, viewing PDFs and books without scrambling everything and also annotating. What it lacks most is the colors and exporting "notes" as vectors (the resolution is not really good so I can't use it for sketching). The display idea sounds interesting, sad it had to die :-(