I really like their pdf viewer. It can be slow on complex documents, but I find it much easer to navigate around compared to the one on Supernote and Boox devices.

Their ebook reader though.. that really does suck. It’s had basically zero improvements in as long as I can remember, despite B obviously being a core feature for many people.

I got a ReMarkable a couple years ago. The writing and screen experience were phenomenal, but the ereader UX and file transfer UX turned me off. I returned it within a couple days. I've been disappointed by how other eink tablets I've tried have felt since, but since 90% of my use is reading I haven't minded.

Doesn't that describe all eBook readers? I've owned a few Kindle and Kobo devices and meaningful improvements are never shipped to them. No actual performance improvements, no new useful features, nothing.

Supernote and Onyx Boox both do meaningful upgrades with useful new features on their devices.

It's unusable for architecture drawings :/

Yeah, that’s fair.

There are images in geminispace, and audio, and (probably) video. It's just not inline. One of constraints of the protocol is that pages cannot load content without your express say-so.

The good thing about the Remarkable is that it’s basically just a Linux machine and you have root access. There’s a great community of folk building extra functionality and tools / apps for it.

I did some minor research, I've only found that I can ssh into it in Dev Mode. Is there a way to run a fullblown nice terminal with keyboard over bluetooth and mosh? I'm dreaming of e-ink portable terminal.

Yep, my notes https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Eink#remarkable on the topic.

Is that true on the pro? I trialed one maybe a year ago and got the impression that the company had stopped supporting third party devs.

SDK :) https://developer.remarkable.com/documentation/sdk

I got a remarkable 2 roughly when it was released and as far as I can tell the company never supported third party devs. They gave you root access but no relevant source code...

Really quite disappointing, the device could have been a lot more useful with even a tiny bit of energy spent releasing source code for things they already developed.

It’s another good example of internet sentiment being far different to popular sentiment.

Polling shows around 70% supported it, though far fewer thought it would be effective. Pretty much matches my views on it.

This little "solution" might be fine for .. imgur .. but it shows your nation is well into the authoritarian descent. And there's no where left in the western world to move to either ... It's not a slippery slope, it's a landslide.

We legally have to keep porn on the top shelf in opaque packaging too in any shop where under 18s are allowed.

I mean, it's basically a police state.

Polls don't handle nuance, though. Most people would support "children not watching hardcore porn", but most wouldn't support "not allowed to access imgur anymore". The polls don't ask those kinds of question, though, they ask "do you support the OSA", to which the only reasonable answer is "yes and no".

Is an SUV needed for two children? I can accommodate my two children (and the dog if required) in my smallish hatchback.

Me too. But, when we drive to my in-laws, NL -> Austria and back, we inevitably bring more stuff with us. I’m not going to rent a car three times a year while still owning a hatchback, and paying insurance and taxes for it.

Possibly, but it's not really sync anyway. You can pull and push documents, but there's no synchronisation.

Not worth paying extra for.

Writing latency on the current generation of eink devices is good enough not to be noticeable.

I've found latency when changing pages to be rather frustrating to the point of it being difficult to land on the page you actually want to be on.

wrt to remarkable: changing pages indeed does take a little time, thus it's not good for researching. writing is nearly instant, but not perfectly, so imo it's not quite as good as on paper (although the resistance is pretty nice). One personal note: I would love to have a thicker pen, the pencil-size is not mine. Still, I like the device (I'm one of the old customers so don't know about how the subscription or non-subscription fares, since I am grandfathered in) but it's clearly not for everyone. Also I really love the eraser function of the newer pen.

If you buy the accessories third-party, the cost of the device is cheaper than most other 10" eink writing pads.

Good to know. Any pen stylus will do?

Lamy Al-star EMR is a popular one. Staedtler Noris also good.

Thanks!

Huginn is an another useful tool that allows you to wrangle CSS selectors and XPath nodes to create RSS feeds.

I use it quite successfully to get data out of undocumented APIs and out into RSS.

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

I use, like and pay for Pinboard. I don't use the archiving feature though - it's just a dump for links, and it does that very well.

I do worry that it's going to go kaput from neglect at some point, so it would be nice to see a bit of development and get these issues fixed. But either way the level of outrage here is a bit OTT. It's not life or death, it's just bookmarks.