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NetSurf on ReMarkable 2

45 points by Fudgel 1y ago

paulcole 1y ago
> One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser. It’s crazy how direct Remarkable is about what their devices are and then the number of people who buy them and wish they were something else.
- myko 1y ago
  Made for an excellent hack :)
- karim79 1y ago
  I don't think that's crazy at all. Many of us like to "value-process" stuff and that just adds more fun and function. To give a simple example I've got smart lights installed throughout my flat and with the tiniest bit of effort I can get them to do a lot more stuff than they were designed for.
- Wowfunhappy 1y ago
  Please show me the alternate product that is a full featured tablet with an e-ink screen so I can buy one.
  - carlosjobim 1y ago
    [flagged]
    - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
      > FOSS freaks with pathological mental fixations incoming in the replies in 3...2...1... When they start following the license, we'll stop complaining. That's not pathological.
      - WillAdams 1y ago
        Yeah, I wish the Pine Note was more popular. Looking forward to buying the first consumer-oriented version (nowhere near talented enough a developer to be able to justify the current dev-oriented unit).
      - carlosjobim 1y ago
        But is it a dignified and sensible use of our limited time on this beautiful earth to sit in message boards and wait for the mention of certain words - certain hieroglyphs on the screen - and then instantly and mechanically having to type the same reply over and over again every time that word is mentioned? My comment - which contains two good answers to the question asked - is now down voted and [flagged], as expected. In the meanwhile, in the real world outside of Hacker News, these devices are immensely helpful and useful for real people.
        yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
        > But is it a dignified and sensible use of our limited time on this beautiful earth to sit in message boards and wait for the mention of certain words - certain hieroglyphs on the screen - and then instantly and mechanically having to type the same reply over and over again every time that word is mentioned? Strawman; nobody's doing that. > In the meanwhile, in the real world outside of Hacker News, these devices are immensely helpful and useful for real people. And because they violate the license on software they use, these devices are less useful than they should be. F/OSS licensing can be a matter of principle, but it tends to materialize into practicality, often sooner than later.
  - wibbily 1y ago
    The Supernote, but I wouldn't bother... too gimped to be useful. The built-in apps aren't as good as Remarkable's and tend to fall over when you install third-party apps. Hardware's slick tho. Real nice kit. Maybe someday the software will be too
  - fragmede 1y ago
    I've been eyeing https://daylightcomputer.com/product https://daylightcomputer.com/product but it's kinda pricey and I don't want a tablet with a web browser that has an eink screen, I want a digital piece of paper, which the Remarkable is.
    - Wowfunhappy 1y ago
      It's not e-ink.
  - BoredPositron 1y ago
    The boox note tablets? https://shop.boox.com/collections/noteseries https://shop.boox.com/collections/noteseries
  - paulcole 1y ago
    Huh? The thing you want may just not exist. That’s life, right?
  - doublerabbit 1y ago
    Fujti does. https://fujitsuquaderno.com/ https://fujitsuquaderno.com/
  - zihotki 1y ago
    May be Pocketbook will sparkle your interest - https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/catalog/e-notes/pocketbook-inkpad-eo-ch https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/catalog/e-notes/pocketbook-inkpa... 10.3", multicolor E Ink® Kaleido™ 3, Android. The only caveat is that it's not available in US directly but ordering from Germany should not be a problem. Pocketbook was founded in 2007 and it's quite known in Eastern Europe.
- nashashmi 1y ago
  It was not good at reading pdfs before. But now it does. And now you could send it me word documents and webpages. Now I wish it was better at reading pdfs. And could now load kindlebooks.
- cxr 1y ago
  Remarkable sells hardware reading devices. Web browsers, just like offline PDF and EPUB viewers, are a form of reader software. There really isn't any mismatch here; why does it seem odd for someone to (want to) be able to address and access their desired reading material—like texts produced by Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, or dictionary entries like the author mentions—through the wildly successful system for identifying resources with URLs?
galleywest200 1y ago
I know this is a tad off topic, but the one feature I wish ReMarkable had included is the ability to export your highlights, at least the snap-to-text ones. Currently I use a third party software, RCU [1], to do this (and it works well!) but one would think ReMarkable could have included this themselves when they added the snap-to-text feature for highlighting! [1] https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/ https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
karim79 1y ago
Also for anyone with a remarkable 1 or 2 there's fun to be had with the following: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
thenthenthen 1y ago
> You can find out what address you need to connect to use SSH from Settings -> Help -> Copyrights and licenses. There's a little blurb in the end of it with the password and username, and the address. Is the SSH user:pass hardcoded?
- xdrosenheim 1y ago
  On my ReMarkable Pro, the password is always the same. Even through updates. No clear way to change it.
  - Eeems 1y ago
    A factory reset would result in it being regenerated

45 points by Fudgel 1y ago

> One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser. It’s crazy how direct Remarkable is about what their devices are and then the number of people who buy them and wish they were something else.

myko 1y ago
Made for an excellent hack :)
karim79 1y ago
I don't think that's crazy at all. Many of us like to "value-process" stuff and that just adds more fun and function. To give a simple example I've got smart lights installed throughout my flat and with the tiniest bit of effort I can get them to do a lot more stuff than they were designed for.
Wowfunhappy 1y ago
Please show me the alternate product that is a full featured tablet with an e-ink screen so I can buy one.
- carlosjobim 1y ago
  [flagged]
  - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
    > FOSS freaks with pathological mental fixations incoming in the replies in 3...2...1... When they start following the license, we'll stop complaining. That's not pathological.
    - WillAdams 1y ago
      Yeah, I wish the Pine Note was more popular. Looking forward to buying the first consumer-oriented version (nowhere near talented enough a developer to be able to justify the current dev-oriented unit).
    - carlosjobim 1y ago
      But is it a dignified and sensible use of our limited time on this beautiful earth to sit in message boards and wait for the mention of certain words - certain hieroglyphs on the screen - and then instantly and mechanically having to type the same reply over and over again every time that word is mentioned? My comment - which contains two good answers to the question asked - is now down voted and [flagged], as expected. In the meanwhile, in the real world outside of Hacker News, these devices are immensely helpful and useful for real people.
      - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
        > But is it a dignified and sensible use of our limited time on this beautiful earth to sit in message boards and wait for the mention of certain words - certain hieroglyphs on the screen - and then instantly and mechanically having to type the same reply over and over again every time that word is mentioned? Strawman; nobody's doing that. > In the meanwhile, in the real world outside of Hacker News, these devices are immensely helpful and useful for real people. And because they violate the license on software they use, these devices are less useful than they should be. F/OSS licensing can be a matter of principle, but it tends to materialize into practicality, often sooner than later.
- wibbily 1y ago
  The Supernote, but I wouldn't bother... too gimped to be useful. The built-in apps aren't as good as Remarkable's and tend to fall over when you install third-party apps. Hardware's slick tho. Real nice kit. Maybe someday the software will be too
- fragmede 1y ago
  I've been eyeing https://daylightcomputer.com/product https://daylightcomputer.com/product but it's kinda pricey and I don't want a tablet with a web browser that has an eink screen, I want a digital piece of paper, which the Remarkable is.
  - Wowfunhappy 1y ago
    It's not e-ink.
- BoredPositron 1y ago
  The boox note tablets? https://shop.boox.com/collections/noteseries https://shop.boox.com/collections/noteseries
- paulcole 1y ago
  Huh? The thing you want may just not exist. That’s life, right?
- doublerabbit 1y ago
  Fujti does. https://fujitsuquaderno.com/ https://fujitsuquaderno.com/
- zihotki 1y ago
  May be Pocketbook will sparkle your interest - https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/catalog/e-notes/pocketbook-inkpad-eo-ch https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/catalog/e-notes/pocketbook-inkpa... 10.3", multicolor E Ink® Kaleido™ 3, Android. The only caveat is that it's not available in US directly but ordering from Germany should not be a problem. Pocketbook was founded in 2007 and it's quite known in Eastern Europe.
nashashmi 1y ago
It was not good at reading pdfs before. But now it does. And now you could send it me word documents and webpages. Now I wish it was better at reading pdfs. And could now load kindlebooks.
cxr 1y ago
Remarkable sells hardware reading devices. Web browsers, just like offline PDF and EPUB viewers, are a form of reader software. There really isn't any mismatch here; why does it seem odd for someone to (want to) be able to address and access their desired reading material—like texts produced by Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, or dictionary entries like the author mentions—through the wildly successful system for identifying resources with URLs?

galleywest200 1y ago

I know this is a tad off topic, but the one feature I wish ReMarkable had included is the ability to export your highlights, at least the snap-to-text ones. Currently I use a third party software, RCU [1], to do this (and it works well!) but one would think ReMarkable could have included this themselves when they added the snap-to-text feature for highlighting! [1] https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/ https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/

karim79 1y ago

Also for anyone with a remarkable 1 or 2 there's fun to be had with the following: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

thenthenthen 1y ago

> You can find out what address you need to connect to use SSH from Settings -> Help -> Copyrights and licenses. There's a little blurb in the end of it with the password and username, and the address. Is the SSH user:pass hardcoded?

xdrosenheim 1y ago
On my ReMarkable Pro, the password is always the same. Even through updates. No clear way to change it.
- Eeems 1y ago
  A factory reset would result in it being regenerated