@louis I was almost tempted a year ago. I see someone already mentioned using a different cloud for storage. That’s exactly the sort of thing I check first. They could support WebDAV (and thus Nextcloud) out of courtesy, at least, but that’s obviously not a priority. As nice as it is to have ssh access, that’s not enough for me and if I don’t have to (ie work) I wouldn’t buy one.
@oatmeal After what I've read I no longer consider the Remarkable 2. With a pen the device is €500+ and then you have to buy a subscription to sync with Dropbox?
That sounds unreasonably high. I'll stick with iPad + pen&paper for the time being. 👍
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I have been extremely happy with my #PineNote. Unlikely to win the FSF imprimatur but the most #librehardware of the choices I know about, by far.
It shipped with a version of Android and stock apps that have been more than adequate for my uses.
The large screen beats the crap out of my old Kindle. Great reading experience. For writing I prefer paper and ink but I confess it is very useful, and quite good UX, for annotating PDFs.
And for software it looks as though community work is getting to where I can try a truly open alternative soon.
@louis I have had one since before the subscription models came in.
What I can say is that the writing experience itself is fantastic, and I've particularly enjoyed being able to download PDFs onto it and writing all over them. I haven't used any other e-ink tablet so I'm not sure how it compares to others. I also have the pen that supports erasing with the other end of the pen, which is expensive but probably worth having as well.
Having said that, I think if I had to pay for the cloud service, I probably wouldn't as I don't use it often. In fact, it'd probably be a benefit for me to turn it off at this point, as that would allow me to do work stuff on the tablet which I wouldn't want synced with a third party.
The UI takes a very bare-bones approach, by design I think. Generally I find it enough for my needs but there are occasions where I wish it had some feature that was missing.
@louis I’ve had one for almost 2 years and I really like it. The device is very open (ssh access out of the box). If you’re ready to hack a bit, you can even use your own cloud…
@louis I got tired that the Remarkable2 is not an android stuff. ALso it happens strange things when the 6GB of memory is full or almost filled, and I have found it uneasy to clean the documents that were to be deleted. Otherwise it is a pretty good device for note taking.
@louis Hmm. So it's essentially an e-ink tablet with a proprietary OS? Not sure what's the selling point of that against an Android e-ink tablet. Just the display?
@louis@sqrtminusone I have one, via usb you get a root shell and can upload and download files via a local web server. I am grandfathered into the online sync system but it seems unnecessary
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