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Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers by ecliptik on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:18PM (#35979917)
I have a DevTerm R-01 and it is basically a beautiful $200 novelty cyberdeck that sits on my desk. The R01 version in particular is greatly under powered and is really only usable with twm and a Xterm.

I mostly use it to read gopher:// and the kids love printing things off using it's thermal printer.

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Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers by syntaxing on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:22PM (#35979980)
How is the keyboard? I have pretty small hands and it does not look like I can use it comfortably.
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Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers by ecliptik on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:47PM (#35980299)
It's not great but not absolutely horrible. Two-finger typing most of the time and the overall feel is stiff, but not too stiff.

I usually hold it with my hands and use my thumbs, like a Game Gear. Re-mapping the "d-pad" joystick and "yxba" buttons to arrow keys and hjkl [1] makes it easy to read and navigate text content on it (hence of gopher://), especially with the wide and high resolution screen.

1. https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/mapping-devterm-r-01-gamepad...

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Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers by danielnoiz on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:54PM (#35980409)
It's size is what turned me off most about the devterm. I would be much more tempted by a device just a bit bigger. This[1] blog post has good pictures, one next to a DVD case for size comparison.

[1] https://www.talospace.com/2022/05/mini-review-clockwork-pi-d...

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