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Is the refresh time of e-ink display suitable for convenient terminal use? (I just skimmed the article.) When reading an e-book, the page is typically refreshe

• Y_Y 5y ago
  Yes, if you're only making small updates and not dumping tons of lines all the time the even an old e-ink display is plenty fast. It works the same way when you're menuing on an e-reader.
• BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  The modern ones are quite impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTok6imfgoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTok6imfgoM Still very expensive, but with tech it's just a matter of years
• avnigo 5y ago
  From the demos I've seen of other e-ink tablet devices like the Max Lumi, it seems like it can handle handwriting pretty smoothly [0]. So it could probably handle typical CLI use too, but higher refresh rates would of course mean higher battery usage. I think e-ink displays can handle local refresh zones, so it doesn't necessarily mean that it would have to refresh the whole screen. However, without pagination, a lot of our computer usage includes scrolling, and I would imagine that's more power intensive, and can maybe hit the refresh rate limits of e-ink displays. I guess that would be akin to a lot of phones now letting you pick a fixed or variable refresh rate depending on the experience and battery life you want to get out of the device. [0]: https://youtu.be/B8X7JPdgsh0?t=788 https://youtu.be/B8X7JPdgsh0?t=788