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This looks so nice, and I've been desperate for years for a great, fast-refreshing e-ink device and/or monitor, but the closed ecosystem is so disappointing. Their 'avoid distractions' marketing is fine and good, but locking down the device makes it a non-starter for me. At the very least I'd need a feed reader I can use (without some workaround where I send stuff through the "remarkable cloud").

Am I reading things correctly that the only external interface to the device is through their cloud tool?



Yes you can log in and run code. There is a proprietary driver for the fast screen refresh but everything else is open.


But is it open by design, or by coincidence?


Absolutely by design. The founder is a prominent Linux community member.


The top comment suggests the device is open: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24295820


Oh nice, very glad to be wrong! I'll have to do some closer reading.


There's a fairly healthy dev community around it too fwiw, e.g. a bunch of linked projects here: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

e-reader app ports, screen mirroring, full OS replacements, etc. It's a relatively niche device so of course there are significant gaps in what's available, but it's active and the depth is fairly impressive.


>This looks so nice, and I've been desperate for years for a great, fast-refreshing e-ink device and/or monitor,

Unfortunately, the e-ink monitor space has still just two major players - Dasung/Onyx and there is a need gap for 'Affordable E-Ink large external displays'[1]. I hope that these newer e-Ink tablet/reader makers graduate soon to make large external monitors, but then again I've been hoping that for past several years.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/43-affordable-e-ink-large-exter...




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