Dailyight Computer came out of nowhere recently, to much fanfare from the tech community: https://daylightcomputer.com/
I am a little skeptical for one reason alone. I've listened to a few interviews with the founder, and I am getting a lot of the painkiller-induced, crypto-bro, everything-sucks-let-me-fix-it narrative, which I don't think I enjoy.
Daylight is like what the reMarakable would have looked like, if it were funded solely on Bitcoin.
I need to work on an eink display editor/terminal theme that uses font weight, italics, underlining, highlighting, etc. rather than colors for syntax highlighting. #eink
Spricht noch irgendwas gegen E-Ink im #öpnv außer vielleicht der Preis? Im Sommer kommen 42-Zoll-Schirme mit RGB-Layer (Kaleido 3). Auflösung reduziert sich zwar durch die indirekte Farbproduktion (es gibt keine Farbkörner im Panel). Aber es wirkt ausreichend auf mich und sie schalten binnen 0,5 s. Die Spectra-Demo vom letzten Jahr sieht natürlich cooler aus.
Pre-ordered Bigme B251, the standalone monitor! As someone who spends a lot of hours in front of a screen, moving to eink on my smartphone and now my desk - connected to my laptop - I’m really excited to use it!
What a teaser!!! I would have gotten Hisense A9 CC, but sadly Hisense no longer makes eink smartphones. Wondering if Bigme will bring these to Europe. They have licensed Google Play, and hopefully they come with at least Android 13? Would love to review it!
The joy of some good automation! Automatically sending PDFs of all unread tagged items from @goodlinks to the #ReMarkable#eink tablet using #Shortcuts.
30h20 minutes thus far, 23h14 minutes to go 😎 power of eink, LineageOS energy efficiency. And if I would go Googleless, it would be more. Connected to 4G, WiFi at home, syncing active etc.
Here's a demo of LineageOS 20 - Android 13 running on Hisense A9, using the latest Eink Center app which can now be updated without reflashing the system image!
Juhu. Heute haben wir unsere access points für die #Eink Displays fertig gebastelt und in Betrieb genommen. Die Displays haben wir auf dem #37C3 von der @cbase bekommen. Vielen Dank noch einmal dafür! Einige werden wir hier als Raumschilder und einige als Info Displays nutzen.
Sweet sunshine, stripped down and #Accessibility oriented #GNOME is nice. I've got the following settings enabled and I feel like I can see! There are some features I'd like to see added, like permanent color filters, but this is still great.
Improving now the Eink Center app to guide the user to setup the overlay permission and accessibility service that allows us to react to button presses regardless of what app you are currently using
To install:
1- Unlock your bootloader! THIS IS A MUST.
2- follow these commands:
adb reboot bootloader
-- wait until you see a white screen with FastBoot
fastboot reboot fastboot
-- wait until you see a dark screen with a menu
fastboot flash system /path/to/rom.img
-- wait until it finishes flashing
fastboot -w
fastboot reboot
I'll keep working on the app, but for now, refresh and speed setting is working when pressing the refresh eink button!
I didn't want to have to rebuild the whole OS to update the Eink app, so I've now signed and prebuilt the .apk that is bundled with the OS. Then I can update and install a new version of it. It's the same approach that Google uses to update the core apps without having to recreate a new version of the OS. If this works, I can release the OS and update the .apk going forward :android:
Something I'd be interested in that I can't seem to find:
A low-powered Linux laptop with an e-ink display, that I could use for long-form writing or coding.
What I've found so far are mostly either
Tablets intended for note-taking (like the ReMarkable or BOOX's various lines)
Higher-end where the e-ink display is an extra (like Lenovo's swivel designs where you rotate the display to use either an OLED or e-ink).
Some of the tablets do have keyboard cases, which would be better than just hooking up a random Bluetooth keyboard, but it doesn't look like I can just install programs on them, except for the Android ones, which aren't going to be ideal for things like coding or running build scripts or anything like that.
The closest I found was the Modos Paper Laptop, but seems to still be in the prototype phase.
Does this form factor exist yet? Am I just having trouble finding them because of the current state of search?