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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by minimalist on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:07PM (#28847435)
A lot of comments talk aboue being disappointed and all, but id rather pay for cloud services than have my data sold to merchants and marketeers.

Meanwhile, I have syncthing and gocryptfs installed on my remarkable 2 and have blocked all telemetry domains with the hosts file. If i wanted to, I could even disable xochotl completely (however you spell it).

This is all good and shows that they respect their customers. We should praise this! Of course theyre not perfect--from what I understand the display driver is a big blob so its unlikely that well ever have a totally free OS running, but its way better than any of the chinese spy tablets that fill up the eink tablet space or American spy tablets sold by our favorite advertisement companies directly to our children's schools.

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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by m-p-3 on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:36PM (#28847966)
They're also well-positioned and pushed the eInk based note-taking line of products ahead of what we currently had. I certainly do hope they remain a viable business and keep iterating.
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by fartcannon on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:44PM (#28847652)
What stops them from charging you and selling your data?
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by FormerBandmate on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:56PM (#28847731)
Being bad at collecting data. We badly need data regulation, the EU had the right idea with GDPR
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by dexterdog on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @11:43AM (#28853647)
Why do we need regulation? Then it just becomes a thing managed by the powers that be the way they want? If we have properly shepherded data then we need no regulation. If a Remarkable tablet knows you only by a token and encrypts all of your data with your key then the Remarkable company has no access to your data by default even if they host it.
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by neximo64 on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:29PM (#28885320)
You can still sell data with GDPR.
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by dbbk on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:36AM (#28851893)
What data does it even have to sell? It's basically an etch a sketch.
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by jodrellblank on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:53PM (#28859346)
Its handwriting recognition is through their cloud service, its default document sync is through their cloud service. They have all your data if you use it the way they intend.
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by purplecats on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:52PM (#28847705)
misplaced faith in capitalism
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by dexterdog on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:04PM (#28847787)
And misplaced identification of this system as capitalism.
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by vunTofHueaFFrea on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:19PM (#28847874)
What would you call it?
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by nemothekid on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:39PM (#28847984)
There is nothing stopping a company from both selling you a subscription and selling your data under a socialist organization of society. It only means the profits of said product would be more evenly distributed.
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by thr0w72594 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:00AM (#28851520)
Capitalism and Socialism aren't the only ways to organize society. The state could force every company that operates within it be beneficial to its citizens.
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by nickstinemates on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:59PM (#28848080)
> would be more evenly distributed.

riiiiiiiight.

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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by nemothekid on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @12:08AM (#28848129)
Not sure the need for the sarcasm. If you have a criticism of what I'm saying, you can use words to address it. If you are insufficiently equipped to counter what I've said, it's far better etiquette to not post at all. Sweden is far more socialized than the rest of the world - and even employees rank and file Swedish employees of H&M enjoy a far greater share of the profits of H&M. That doesn't stop H&M from committing and profiting off of human rights abuses in Indonesia.

Under a socialist structure if all workers decided to poison the ocean in order to increase profits, that's completely possible. The main distinction is that more "shareholders" would be the people who actually do labor for the company, but I personally believe that they wouldn't act completely differently from shareholders of today if the negative externalities of their decisions were sufficiently outsourced.

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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by dexterdog on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @11:37AM (#28853554)
Crony capitalism. Capitalism is in the name, but that's not what it is at all.
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Re:Remarkable starts implementing subscription plans for its... by svennek on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:34AM (#28848569)
How do you convert the .rm to usable files? I tried it a couple of months ago, and that was the problem (unknown stroke types etc)...
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