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#TIL about a hardware company called #reMarkable;

"Our scientific advisors help us understand how technology affects attention — and guide us in creating products that protect focus and support more deliberate ways of working. This work is designed to spur innovation, test ideas through rigorous research, and champion focused thinking."

remarkable.com/scientific-advi

Not sure if their software is Free Code. But You might find this relevant to your work on SX design @smallcircles.

remarkable.comreMarkable - The future of paper is herereMarkable - "Replace your notes and printed documents with a digital notebook that feels like paper."

Immer toll, wenn Hersteller das freie Linux für ihre Hardware nutzen, sich aber für Kunden mit Linux nicht die Bohne interessieren und nur Windows und MacOS supporten. #Remarkable

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Oh man, was habe ich mich auf das reMarkable Paper Pro gefreut. Alles gut angekommen, Gerät ist echt toll.... aaaaaaaber datenschutztechnisch, so einfach nicht nutzbar. 🫣 Cloudzwang, encrypted using Google-managed keys und customer content mal so „access is required by law“. Ja ne is klar. Nicht. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Wer ein Bisschen stöbern möchte: support.remarkable.com/s/artic und support.remarkable.com/s/topic #reMarkable #PaperPro #Datenschutz #Fail

support.remarkable.comreMarkable Support Web

I don't use my #Remarkable that often, but did the upgrades last week, to find out that Disk Encryption is natively supported now (March 3.18 release), but only for the RM2.

Cloud sync is still not E2E (and I don't expect it to change), but nice to have Full Disk Encryption locally.

Mein #remarkable 2 mit Zubehör steht zum Verkauf. Es kommt mit Lederhülle, 2 Pro-Stiften und 40 Stiftspitzen. Bei einem der Stifte ist der "Radiergummi" abgebrochen, aber das Gerät ist sonst in sehr gutem Zustand. Abholung bei mir oder Übergabe auf einem Chaos-Event möglich. Falls lieber über einen offiziellen Verkaufskanal, dann gibt es auch eine Ricardo-Auktion dafür. VHB CHF 400
#fediFlohmarkt

Replied to All Europeans 🇪🇺

@ueeu Uhm. What is european about #reMarkable except for the HQ to be in Norway?

The devices are partly designed and fully manufactured in Asia. The cloudservices (which are a big part of their offering, as the handwriting to text function only works via the cloud) is just Google.

Their CoC boils down to "follow the minimum legal requirements, and other stuff IF that is required in other contracts".

Nice gadgets, but I don't see why people keep pushing them as a #europeanalternatives

Do you need an #European e-reader and tablet?

The reMarkable 🇳🇴 is a very serious European alternative created by a Norwegian startup.

⚠️ To avoid temptations, if you don't need one, don't visit their website or watch their videos, otherwise you may end up buying one, as we did. We love it but it's not cheap, as they only produce it in small quantities. ⚠️

The reMarkable is an E Ink writing tablet designed for reading documents and textbooks, sketching, and taking notes. It's designed to feel like writing on paper.

What we like the most:

- you can read #ebooks or documents in various formats, including pdf. It's like a Kindle. And you can make notes in your ebooks, for example.

- it REALLY feels like you're writing and sketching on paper. It's impressively well done ✏️

- there are many of different templates you can use and download on the internet 📃

- you can write notes by hand and convert them into digital text. It can even translate your handwritten text into another language 💬

- you can also automatically save your files in the cloud and in your computer. 💻 ☁️

If you're interested, you can find more information on their website, which is full of useful tips.

Do you have any too? We'd love to know what you think! 😊

remarkable.com

Has anyone managed to get a terminal and web browser working on the colour #remarkable tablets? I played with one recently and if I had a terminal and could ssh to another machine and a web browser (don’t care if it’s slow), it would be a great machine for me to stop staring at bright backlit LCDs. Their target market is mostly people who want paper that can be backed up, which isn’t me (if I never have to hold a pen again, I will be happy), but the display technology is impressive. Alternatively, does anyone make a laptop with the same display?

The first #eInk device I owned was an iRex Iliad. This was quite a fun machine because it ran Linux and X11 (which was awful for battery life) and so could easily be set up as a remote display for other things. The screen could do white to black transitions (possible grey to darker grey?) fairly quickly, but the other direction required a complete redraw which took 0.7 seconds. Fine for rendering a page of text, not really usable for much else.

The jump from there to the new colour displays is amazing. Colour reproduction isn’t great (‘I’m thinking: Pastels!’) but with some dithering images are not too bad, and the updates are fast enough that you can draw on the screen with no lag. It would be ample for vim with syntax highlighting (which, let’s face it, is 90% of what I need from a work laptop).

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The Most #Remarkable Part of the #Video of a #Bishop #Confronting the #Trump #Family.

Noting how he had told the #nation during his #swearingin that he had “felt the providential hand of a loving #God,” by virtue of his #surviving two #assassination #attempts, Budde invoked the #compassion and #mercy of God as she called on Trump “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are #scared now.”

slate.com/life/2025/01/donald-

Slate · The Most Remarkable Part of That Video of a Bishop Confronting the Trump FamilyBy David Mack