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by alex-a-soto 4y ago
Hi, thanks for sharing the Glamorous Toolkit; I have looked into it in the past, and it reminds me of Emacs 'modability'. I'm working on a blog post about what a dedicated distraction-free OS would look like.
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by alex-a-soto 4y ago
One of the areas we are exploring is developing Wayland protocols that will offer native e-ink support to client applications. We hope this may partially address the power consumption/efficiency of static/dynamic content related t
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by alex-a-soto 4y ago
On the software side of things, we hope to work with a consultancy to develop Wayland protocols that will offer native e-ink support to client applications.
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by alex-a-soto 4y ago
Thank you for the feedback, it's appreciated, and we are working on it.
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by alex-a-soto 4y ago
Great, I use a Pomera DM30, and it's a lovely portable device, although it takes some to adjust to the keyboard.
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by alex-a-soto 4y ago
Hi, Thank you for the feedback; we are working on creating the laptop chassis and are taking this into consideration.
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by alex-a-soto 4y ago
Hi, elnatro Thank you for your words and for describing your use case. For writing, I tend to go analog. I use paper and pencil to write a rough draft and get my ideas on paper; the next stage is to type up the thoughts digitally and use a
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by alex-a-soto 5y ago
Yes, I made a mistake in the article, and I corrected it. Thank you. The people who have worked on the EI2030 community are working on this project. As we worked on the project, we realized the need to start Modos to achieve our goal of bui
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by alex-a-soto 5y ago
Yes, I agree. We have talked about adding HDMI input, and we would like to incorporate it so that the laptop can serve different needs and use cases.
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by alex-a-soto 5y ago
We are in the early stages of figuring out the price; price depends on many factors. We are aiming for less than 1k.
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by alex-a-soto 5y ago
Hey HN, I’m Alex and I'm the co-founder and CEO of Modos. Our mission is to help you live a healthy life by creating technology that respects your time, attention, and well-being. To this end, we are building the world’s first e-ink la
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Modos: The World’s First E-ink Laptop(modos.tech)
4 points by alex-a-soto 5y ago|13 comments
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by alex-a-soto 5y ago
Hi, I and many others share your desire to work outside and not feel fatigued after working with a digital device. Making a quality transflective screen suitable for laptops and having good viewing angles is a complex manufacturing process;
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by alex-a-soto 5y ago
Previously at EI2030, we were using Discord, and it wasn't easy to find and keep track of information as we were growing. We've transitioned to Zulip and couldn't be happier. The article from monadical describes it best: &quo
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by alex-a-soto 5y ago
Hi ddevault, We've created a Zulip server and will be transitioning away from Discord. Zulip Server: https://ei2030.zulipchat.com/register/
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
Hi, we are working on setting up a Matrix server with bridges to other platforms. If you have suggestions or experience in this, I would appreciate your support.
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
Thank you for your feedback. I agree with your points; manufacturing is an essential part of the process that I neglected to include in the article. Thank you for bringing it up. When we are at that stage, I would appreciate your feedback a
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
Hey Lukas, Thank you for your comment and for reaching out. I'm a big fan of MNT Reform, and it's great to hear of your interest in doing an e-ink experiment. We are interested. I'll send you an email later today to talk furt
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
Hey HN, I'm the project lead at EI2030, and we are working on building an open-source eink laptop. From the day-to-day conversations with community members from EI2030, we've identified some challenges with building an eink laptop
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Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop(alexsoto.dev)
261 points by alex-a-soto 6y ago|104 comments
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
At EI-2030, we're working on developing an e-ink laptop. We have two working groups. One's creating an e-ink laptop, and the other is using a low-power CPU/MCU with an e-ink display. If interested, check us out at the EI-2030
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
Follow-up post: Dasung Paperlike HD-FT Teardown https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26270995#26271790
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
I'm using home-manager. I haven't dived deeper into using flakes, though I intend to. For the post on "Installing and configuring NixOS," I'll create a separate repository for users not using NixOS and use GNU stow
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
Hey folks, this is my second post, as a follow-up of my original post of "Building an E-ink Laptop." Thank you to everyone who has reached out and expressed interest! This second post goes over the teardown process of the Dasung H
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Dasung Paperlike HD-FT Teardown(alexsoto.dev)
11 points by alex-a-soto 6y ago|3 comments
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
Thank you for sharing! I was thinking of getting the 103 for all of the reasons you mentioned, alternating reading ebooks and using it as a second screen. I'm going to add it to my list!
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
Thank you for your comment. I updated the article and did a strikethrough in the sentence about e-ink and patents, 'Correction, this is an unsubstantiated claim.'
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
https://politepol.com/fd/YzxwhAIhCZer
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
https://politepol.com/fd/YzxwhAIhCZer
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by alex-a-soto 6y ago
https://politepol.com/fd/YzxwhAIhCZer

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