Paperlike Color: World’s First Color E-Ink Monitor

Re:Paperlike Color: World’s First Color E-Ink Monitor by overnight5349 on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:57PM (#36949450)

They also don't support USB OTG on the main port, so you can't even use a wired keyboard. They only just recently released a keyboard case that uses the Pogo pins on the side, but it's $200!!

There was an abandoned(?) attempt to enable OTG. The hardware supported acting as USB host, but couldn't supply 5v so you needed a powered hub as well as a wired keyboard.

But, the software support for text input is absolutely horrendous. It inserts a text block into the center of the current page and you can't move it. Hell, until the 3.0 update, you couldn't even delete notebooks on the device.

The RM2 is beautiful hardware that's about 90% developed with some truly awful software. Fortunately, you get root out of the box and the homebrew scene is active enough to give you most of the features that RM2 left out

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Re:Paperlike Color: World’s First Color E-Ink Monitor by chaosprint on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:23PM (#36949695)

all these designs prove that rm2 is the worst product I have ever seen

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Re:Paperlike Color: World’s First Color E-Ink Monitor by overnight5349 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:55PM (#36959716)

It's a pretty good product with some mediocre software.

At the end of the day, it's extremely useful and usable for a lot of people doing a wide variety of tasks.

The hardware has some issues, but I'd say it's like 90% there. The software features that work well are rather limited, but that's an intentional design decision.

It has some limitations, but I consider it a rather good product.

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