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You are quite literally saying that you support censorship.
While E-ink is a large selling point of the Remarkable, I think parent is talking about another one of the selling points: That it feels like writing on paper with texture, rather than a glossy display (like iPad's display).

It has nothing to do with E-ink, but about how it feels to write on the Remarkable display with the pen.
Society norms definitely shift. My point is that that change is generally the result of a highly dynamic and complicated process, rather than pointing to a single cause.
I wish they would. Currently I think at best they're all running a custom Android OS, though.
there is no OCR on device fullstop, which in itself would be fine if it happened async in the background.

You can use the OCR feature only in the companion desktop app, explicitly selecting pages you want to run the process on. The result is better than it used to be but still not great and, importantly, it does NOT seem they make any difference if you later on do a search on the device
I'm paying $2.99/month. Got mine last year, and used it, then didn't, and started again earlier this year - was using it daily for about 4-5 months. My daily routines changed and I've not used it as much, but will be picking it up again shortly. Was more for daily journaling and planning, but not as much 'in the workday' use. I think $29/year is an annual plan (looks like a new offering) - I may switch to that.

A feature I was using some is the 'desktop connect' thing - drawing on it is synced to the desktop app pretty much live (<1s delay, ime). Doing a screen share and letting people watch me draw using it has been useful, but not something I need a lot. But... considering some of the discussions I've been having lately, perhaps I do need it more. Trying to get data relationship concepts across to people seems to do better with pictures for some folks.

EDIT: Works fine without it and paid account. I think you even get a small amount of 'sync' data for free if you create an account (5meg or something?). I seem to remember I still had some stuff synced between desktop and device even before paying. I used it for months just as a standalone device with no issues.

The OCR stuff does send the data out to the cloud, and my experience is it's not that great, but my penmanship stinks, so it's more me than it.
There is obviously some self-selection going on since people disagreeing with the DX direction will migrate away.

But do you have any basis for beliving the majority disagree with the direction?

I vastly prefer Vue 3 setup, but I have no idea if I’m in the minority.
It's designed as a reading tablet with good pen support, so yes. And E-ink makes reading more comfortable than LCDs. For technical PDFs, size matters a lot. Normal reading tablets often resize the text to be easily readable, but PDFs cannot do that. So having a tablet of good size becomes a dealbreaker for such use-cases, more so than other features.

Remarkable lacks a backlight, and e-ink displays don't have deep blacks, so depending on your reading environment, it may be a bit low-contrast. I got a kobo elipsa myself for this reason. Kobu is notably cheaper and has a backlight which helps the contrast a bit, but the pen support is waaay worse.
> ensure C code changes do not break Rust code

This is not true. C code is allowed to break Rust bindings. The Rust For Linux folks will then go fix it. The C side was repeatedly told this, but doesn’t seem to want to hear it.
This is just the tradeoff between capex and opex, debated since you had to choose between borrowing or buying your neighbor's sharpest rock.
Interesting take, I'll accept it !
One recurring pattern I have seen at multiple customer sites is that scaling makes the engineers lazy to optimize. One production performance calamity requires the team to add CPU as a quick fix, and from that time on the baseline for the product's requirement has been set to the new number of CPUs.

"Back in the olden days", if your product was slow but the number of CPUs was fixed (or could not be increased instantly), the solution was to go and fix your code.

Basic system level skills are now no longer taught or practiced at the appropriate levels, so teams end up without engineers who actually know how to profile and optimize.

The cloud providers are the big winners here.
Does it actually build apps? The site suggests it builds gpt wrappers (assuming the OpenAI ChatGPT store templates/integrations?)
> Also, Starlink is overcoming this without an issue.

Seems like they're having issues:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/04/starlink_performs_a_1...
Lots of people who were generally against war and violence went to war to fight Hitler voluntarily.
My reference point is physical paper.
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See https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-developer-edition/
You can start here... https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-bench_11

M3 is around 3.5 TeraFLOPS, Lunar Lake is 5.2-6.5 TeraFLOPS. I'm sure more detailed benchmarks will be coming up soon, but realistically, there is no way to make up that gap.

Apple here says the Macbook Pro has 18 TOPS (compared to Lunar Lake's 48 TOPS)...it's not really in the same league.
https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
Small asteroid to hit Earth's atmosphere today
I have a Dasun Color, it's by far the worst purchase I ever made. Turd.
Last I heard they were moving away from Varnish (but still supporting VCL for customers that were using it)
I had a Sony-Erickson phone with a resistive touch screen and full keyboard and a stylus. Very futuristic for the aughts! They also forced writing letters in a very specific way, in order to trigger OCR.
Or the added costs of on-prem that you're not dealing with in the cloud.

Not to say it's a slam dunk either way, you gotta compare, but on-prem is not without its own unique requirements.
I don't know why people get so "twitchy" about this topic, what don't you understand about this situation being unique in history? I didn't say I support this level of censorship. I'm just smart enough and sympathetic enough to see how the platform causes issues for democracy and how this is a hard thing to grapple with for western democratic society. Smart people are using our morality against us and plenty of people fall for it.

Everyone I know that seriously uses Twitter, I've basically distanced myself from. It's an insane platform.

Twitter is not a "website". I say it again.
Nice, I'll give that a go thanks.
Three Stigmata and DADOES are my favorites and they're full-length. The only one I didn't like was Valis.

> It’s quite telling that almost all of the movies based on his works have been based on his short stories, not novels.

Because that's easier to adapt to 2h films than a long novel? Lots of short stories become film.
Could consider a Kobo Elipsa. (I have a different Kobo device.) It runs some sort of Linux and you can install Koreader and a couple of other things. You can tweak a config file and set up the device without an account. Not sure how the writing experience compares to reMarkable, though (probably not favorably).
I've been a remarkable user for several years and have spent hundreds of hours I'm sure in front of the RM1 and RM2.

I love the increased storage (8GB goes fast with a bunch of scanned PDFs) and the addition of color (so long as it's as readable in sunlight).

However I'm stuck on the old 2.x fw versions because I don't like the infinite page thing they added, so I won't be upgrading. Also it'd be cool if they offered proper support for self-hosting rather than forcing us to use tools like rmfakecloud (which is great btw).
I know more than one person who ended in the ER with a perforated eardrum because of qtips. I honestly don't understand why we haven't outlawed them yet (in countries with universal healthcare, in the US you could just have a more expensive health insurance if you choose to use them).
The entire point of these devices is the tailored software experience, I don't know where your suggestion comes from
You mean like the pine note? https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/

The hardware is easy for China, but there is a lot of software that doesn't exist yet, or it exists but is too slow to be usable. If you want to work on that software, then the pinenote is a great deal, order one and get busing writing/optimizing code. If you want a tablet that works the ReMarkable has been around for years.
I wonder why the folios put the display to sleep.

Afaik, e-ink screens don't use any energy to display, but only to refresh.
I take the branded license-plate holders off my cars, and I'd debadge them if there was a user-serviceable way to do it. An orange branding label on my hand would be absolutely disgusting.
I concur. I switched from the very first remarkable to an ipad pro with paperlike but it's very different and much less paper-like. Also, the paperlike screen protector lost lost 100% of the roughness in just a few months, and now when I write it's basically the same as writing on the glass.
Or find out your NAS or network ... isn't the best and you spend time troubleshooting that.
Thing I've never understood with nginx is why would I want my web server to also be my mail server?
Websites that don’t adhere to the laws of said government. If they don’t like it they can fight it in a court of law, not on twitter
I didn't see any announcment, but I'm in the same boat as you. It's honestly the main reason I don't look at other competitors.
You think e-ink has worst contrast than physical paper? How so?
The remarkable2 works well with Linux in the respect that the remarkable itself runs Linux and you can just ssh into it.
Loving the dark pattern that it "starts at $579" and then the 'buy now' page tries to default you to adding on additional options that bump that up to over $700...
Yeah, I don't like a corporation thinking itself to be above a government. Whether the request to ban those accounts was fair is a political game I don't think they should be playing. And Elon is obviously not above banning other accounts...

Flawed as it is, Brazil is a democracy. Judges stepping out of their lanes is something up to the representatives to deal with, not a foreign company.
He's detailed (maximalist as he likes to say), but I wouldn't call it worldbuilding (with exceptions). A fantasy author does that. He just gets into the nitty gritty about tech or ideas.
Is this the first mainstream Gallery 3 display tablet (as opposed to Kaleido)? I know BigMe made one but it never caught on.
I find (1) to be the biggest snake oil of electrophoretic displays. The only case where it's remotely true is direct sunlight. In normal indoor lighting conditions they severely lack contrast/whiteness/blackness compared to a good screen or printed book, and are hugely dependent on proper lighting, for example your hand will give it shadow so you're practically forced to use the frontlight if your device has it (reMarkable doesn't), as it's almost impossible to light evenly and match the background otherwise. In other words, when reading indoors they have all downsides of paper with none of the upsides. It just doesn't work as "paper replacement", it's strictly inferior, and feels like a downgrade compared to modern active displays.

(3) is mostly matter of choice, and it's a feel of matte plastic, very far from actual paper.

(2) is the only reason I'm using it. It's thin (although not as thin as a piece of paper) and single-purpose, a physical product.
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If your notes are the kind that are written faster with a keyboard, you are not the target audience
But it does offer a reasonable hybrid solution: the software in the car doesn't have to solve all possible scenarios, it just has to be good enough to navigate the common, easy scenarios and should always be able to safely handle any situation for a short window of time, even if "handle" means "come to a quick safe stop within X seconds and turn on the hazards", all the while it's already starting the process of asking for remote assistance to take over whatever tricky situation, hopefully before the local code actually reaches the emergency-stopped case.
Never, and I’m not even sure about the ratio — I just never noticed poor contrast on my old Kindle, which I’ve been using for the last 10 years or so.
What a weird analogy. Putting a logo on any product is called branding. So a logo on a prosthesis is just having a branding on oneself. Which is a much more powerful analogy, even at the cost of being a tasteless pun.
We see current cars marketed based on their safety features or crash test results - in this driverless future we'll have luxury brands touting that their remote drivers are based in the USA and can respond 5 times faster than more affordable brands with drivers on the other side of the world.
I hold them side by side.
As far as I understand it, that is only in the short term for the file system experiment where Rust is a "second class citizen" as Ted T'so put it.
IMHO, it's too small for PDFs. If they offered an 13" / A4 / Letter sized version for a few hundred more, I'd buy it today. Instead I'm using a 13" iPad Pro which has different compromises.
I don't mean to suggest people are coddled in Prison. I don't particularly like law enforcement, or prison staff. I think the majority of them are crooked, either by direct action or by indirect action. However, prosecutors in many cities refuse to prosecute many classes of crime, and are elected on this basis [1].

In my view, this just contributes to what makes them crooked. They refuse to enforce the law as it is on the books. This is not justice.

[1]: https://thefga.org/research/soros-district-attorneys-make-ci...
To be honest (and as a reMarkable 2 owner), the software side of reMarkable isn't a "out of this world" experience, it's basically "just enough" to do it's job but not more than that.
that leap of faith would be unreasonable :)
The 'cloud' always was - at its core - a mechanism to take your sovereignty away. Like the social media or IM walled gardens that you like. And like a lot of things that came up in the last ~15 years. Subscription models as well...

All that will not fail, because there are strong forces that explicitly want this to happen.

But it's always nice to hear that there are at least problems...
It's an early novel and sillier than the ones that follow. Among my least favorites, but I can appreciate it for what it is.
We are on the discussion boards of a startup incubator which had a monarchist as a board member for years. Have you not picked up on all of Silicon Valley going techno-feudalist? Paul Graham probably goes to Urbit rallies when he’s not writing longform essays about rockstar 10X founder culture
Not everything needs to be about politics, some people actually talk about science when they talk about science.

Yes, humans are mammals, but not all mammals are the same, so the things that are true for one species are not necessarily true for other species. More precisely, when you measure some effects, it's not just about "true or false" but also about "how much".

For example, imagine learning that some magical pill makes a human life longer, with zero side effects. Before you start celebrating, you ask "how much longer?"... and you learn that the answer is 5 seconds. So, the statement is still technically true, but what seemed like a good news became quite useless.

Mice are different from humans. They are smaller, they live shorter. As a consequence, some interventions that cause big changes in mice, cause technically nonzero but actually very small changes in humans. So small that the difference from zero is negligible for all practical purposes.

There is a lot of fascinating research that can make life much better and longer... for mice... but has almost no effect on humans. This is why "in mice" became a meme, because quite often research is reported in a way that makes readers think it applies to humans, when if fact it only applies to mice (or it is yet unknown whether the effects on mice will also be confirmed with humans).
Yeah that's on of the things that get hand-wavity when you bring up these city-state type plans as well as anarcho-whatevers. They generally wouldn't be big enough to defend themselves from religious extremists or nation states acting against them--many of them not even figuring in defense against other entities and saying "we're pacifists". That kind of stuff only works when external factors like aggressive neighbors don't figure in.
Just pouring through the code, one thing I think it's missing is transcoding to multiple (lower) resolutions as well so weaker connections can watch.

Is that correct? I took a brief look a the WHIP protocol and it seems like maybe it's just a matter of converting the frames before writing?
The paper feel also refers to the viewing experience
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All Twitter had to do was appoint a legal representative in Brazil and this trouble wouldn't have happened
I want to challenge the idea that drawing/writing on what feels like paper is subpar compared to a surface that have the pencil glide a bit more.

I always thought writing on paper is something we have to deal with because paper is.. well, the physical medium we always used because it is cheap to manufacture.
Shameless confession: I once completed Wizardry 7 with a single character, from start to finish. I remember the start was very hard, but once I survived the first few fights character development skyrocketed and eventually it became a semi-god of sorts. This was because originally the XP after fights was distributed among party members, so in a regular game every character would normally receive only XP/6. It happened quite regularly that a single fight bumped my character to the next level! IIRC I finished the game with my character having level ~120, after a number of class changes. Fun times! Can't remember how I had so much free time in my life though - I must have still been in high school or uni...
Except when it happens in China, people _generally_ get upset at the company.

When it's a company they hate, it seems people are more willing to look the other way.
This is one of the first questions I ask when buying a car. Do you put that stupid badge on everything you sell? I make it clear no sale if they do. I bought the car, you made your money, I'm not advertising for you, end of transaction.
"scaling makes the engineers lazy to optimize"

I've lost track of the times I've heard "compute is cheap! engineers are expensive!" Except... that compute cost will live forever. The time it takes someone to debug a bad loop or poor query is at worst a one time cost. Longer term, it may even make other stuff faster in the future.
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That's not what I said? Reread the comment, you might learn something.
> Not sure if it’s still true but for a while you could get instantly banned for saying “cisgender.” Free speech absolutism!

This was never true, and you could have easily checked before posting this. People who are really concerned about misinformation seem to spread it around casually about their enemies.
Really interesting !
I have the old version and I've often thought it would be much better with colors.
Because it's cheaper now to throw hardware at a problem than actually try to fix the code or root of the issue. This wasn't the case a couple of decades ago.

It also means less engineers are needed for most companies.
Or, it's possible, they are aware and don't support it. I don't think "My government is better then yours" was the goal here...
Ah, I see. Got it.
>But there is for example many wonderful NGOs that build software that helps a cause.

Are you working in that sector, can you suggest some NGOs that are good in this respect?
And how is this different from Turkey? The Turkish constitution court decisions are often not upheld, there are people in prison who are in prison despite the court ruling.
> You are accusing the guy of committing a serious crime because he was poisoned

Yeah, that proves you read the comment you replied to further up the wrong way around. There was no "victim blaming" in saying "this guy is [in] an abusive relationship"; they obviously meant it was the wife who'd been abusing him for years. The only serious crime anyone had been talking about was her poisoning him, which was just another step in the abuse.

> My only agenda is to drive exploration of ideas...

Maybe you should begin with the basics, like learning to read better, before going on to the more advanced stuff.
https://archive.is/83owV
Depends what your reference is. E-ink displays without a lot of layers (especially Carta 1250) have pretty good contrast, on par with matte paper. Some devices with a thick frontlight layer and a Wacom layer and a touch layer are less impressive.
"scaling makes the engineers lazy to optimize"

More often I think that's more of an overall engineering department time budgeting / culture issue.
Yes, it builds complete next.js 14 apps that leverage the OpenAI API

For example I built a Tweet generator a couple of minutes ago: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/ai-app-generator/tweetgenie

You can see from the code in the sandbox its a nextjs app, with the backend api route calling openai and frontend taking in user input
> Are people farming karma to later sell the accounts to shill products?

> Yes.

I wonder who buys though. I had an account which was 9 years old, over well over 100k karma and I decided I would delete it. Before doing so and out of curiosity, I contacted a couple of accounts that said they bought accounts. I was offered $20 (twenty) dollars. No more. Deleted the account.

If that is a representative amount then it's a lot of 'work' for no real gain.
https://archive.is/MrrMp
I can access my RM2 with SSH via WiFi or USB-C, if that's what you mean. But the official reMarkable client is not available for Linux, which I find a bit odd, since it is a Qt-app and the founder of the company apparently is an avid linux user.

I have got it working via Wine, but it keeps breaking after updates. I do not use it often though, as I mostly just upload new files via the website.
> What does the ReMarkable really excel at?

Writing notes with a pencil. I think they make this pretty clear. Anything outside of that is either a bonus or out of scope for the device.

> It doesn't have end-to-end encryption so I wouldn't use it for anything important

Don't use the cloud sync and instead manually sync things between your own hardware, encrypt at rest if you feel like it.

> e-ink is great in bright environments [...] And who is going to use their ReMarkable at the beach?

Living in a country with lots of sunlight and as a person who sometimes visits the beach, this is exactly what I want.

One of the main variables I look at when I buy laptops is "How well can I read from the display when I'm in sunlight?", I'm sure I cannot be the only one who likes to sit outside with my computer, or have windows that let in sunlight.
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