To give a simple example I've got smart lights installed throughout my flat and with the tiniest bit of effort I can get them to do a lot more stuff than they were designed for.
Hardware's slick tho. Real nice kit. Maybe someday the software will be too
When they start following the license, we'll stop complaining. That's not pathological.
Looking forward to buying the first consumer-oriented version (nowhere near talented enough a developer to be able to justify the current dev-oriented unit).
My comment - which contains two good answers to the question asked - is now down voted and [flagged], as expected. In the meanwhile, in the real world outside of Hacker News, these devices are immensely helpful and useful for real people.
Strawman; nobody's doing that.
> In the meanwhile, in the real world outside of Hacker News, these devices are immensely helpful and useful for real people.
And because they violate the license on software they use, these devices are less useful than they should be. F/OSS licensing can be a matter of principle, but it tends to materialize into practicality, often sooner than later.
10.3", multicolor E Ink® Kaleido™ 3, Android. The only caveat is that it's not available in US directly but ordering from Germany should not be a problem.
Pocketbook was founded in 2007 and it's quite known in Eastern Europe.
Now I wish it was better at reading pdfs. And could now load kindlebooks.
There really isn't any mismatch here; why does it seem odd for someone to (want to) be able to address and access their desired reading material—like texts produced by Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, or dictionary entries like the author mentions—through the wildly successful system for identifying resources with URLs?
It’s crazy how direct Remarkable is about what their devices are and then the number of people who buy them and wish they were something else.