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What is the device you want, but that does not exist? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by jonuno@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

reMarkable, been using gen 1 then 2 for years now, runs on Linux and active dev community

less slick and much smaller community but the PineNote also works with Linux, kind of.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Remarkable looks cool, but I was talking about a dedicated e-reader. They probably won't bother because their differentiator is the writing.

There needs to be one that is kindle adjacent, ru s linux, and comes with a ton of selections from project gutenberg, selling a little bit above cost. Thats the only way I could see this working.

[–] daddyjones@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Remarkable would be awesome if I could read my Kindle books on it. It seems to me that most e-ink tablets are good at either taking notes or ebooks, but none are really good at both...

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is more of a kindle lock in thing than a limitation of the Remarkable IMO. I use my remarkable 2 daily for reading. Everything I read is pirated and DRM free though.

If you feel strongly about giving money to ~~the author~~ amazon, then you could limit yourself to only downloading books which you've purchased for your kindle.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I only read books that I have a physical copy of, or books that are on project Gutenberg. But really, we should seek to make all books free. An unencrypted epub is like 1 MB for like 300 pages usually.

I do wish that there was an open source e-reader that ran Linux. You can already read these things on your phone or on your computer. But I like the dedicated devices for reading.

Someone made an open source one that runs on a microprocessor, and it is a super cool project. But you really need a kernel to run arbitrary code, and gain access to open source e-reader software that gets you compatibility with publishing formats, layouts and fonts.

Getting Linux kernels onto more open source devices is probably a good goal - its still rather hard for a hobbyist to design a devicw that supports Linux.