I think it would be much more usable as a electronic signage display, however, rather than interactive... Or if you needed to manipulate anything in detail in the GUI, it would be less awkward to do it over VNC.
This is great! I've always wanted more hackable e-ink devices -- the Kindle is nice but it feels like there's so much unrealized potential of an e-ink screen.
You might be interested in Boox, https://www.boox.com/ . They run regular Android, so it's a fairly open dev environment. (Possibly even more standard than the reMarkable)
I had put a order in for a RM2, then found out about Boox and their Note Air and decided to give it a try.
Have had it for a few days now, and loving it. Went ahead and cancelled my RM2 order, the Boox seems to have the Remarkable beat in every category outside of the hardware look and supposedly it feels slightly nicer to write on, but I'm having 0 issues taking notes on the Boox Air.
I’m pretty into the remarkable and run a Twitter account retweeting content. (@rehackable - inspired by the GitHub repo of the same name)
The RM1 was pretty well modded, but the RM2 is currently somewhat stuck due to a missing frame buffer driver. Some good people are working hard on it though and it seems like it’ll be solved fairly soon. [0]
Yeah. Sucks that it does not ship to India. Feels like the 80s again, where you tell your relatives and friends to get one for you when they return from abroad.
Anti-glare coatings help somewhat (eg. most flagship Thinkpads seem to ship with them, though there’s a glossy 4K display option presumably for content creation & consumption).
There's been a whole ecosystem of homebrew Kindle software on and off for a while, some of which add some nice functionality like a better PDF reader. Not sure about current status of efforts, but I played around with it a few years ago and it was reasonably lively back then.
Amazon offers a "subsidized" version with some minimal ads that is $20 cheaper, that suggests to me that they are selling it at cost or at least near it. Incidentally, I kinda like the ads... they aren't intrusive (to me at least) and they have actually have given me some decent recommendations before.
I once drove 10 hours to visit a friend but my phone was dead on arrival. I had his address but no apartment number. I used the Kindle experimental browser to message him on facebook.
I read HN on my Kindle's browser fairly regularly. HN itself (and similar pages with a simple layout, such as i.reddit.com) works great. For the articles that are linked, it's a coin flip whether it works or the page has so much cruft that it crashes the browser.
I used to use the built-in browser to load Google Voice and Google Talk and they worked fine. Of course, this was before they were overhauled into bloated, JS-heavy pages that barely run on non-Chrome mobile browsers.
You can write a proxy that creates a new page on Wikipedia with the requested URL. A remote machine then monitors the page, downloads the URL, and adds to a new Wikipedia page.
It _used to be_ easy, I did it on an old Kindle ages ago. Last I checked, it was much harder on the Voyager I currently use, and it would get lost at every OS update.
Just a note that this post (and accompanying Youtube video) are from early 2019. Not taking away anything from this accomplishment of course, just FYI.
