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davidroetzel | 3 years ago

FWIW, there is a tiny webapp on the device that you access when you follow the instructions above. You do not need to install anything and it worked perfectly fine for me so far.

Also, you can ssh into the device and even get root access. I have not tried it yet but I guess scp would work as well.

Last but not least: They recently changed their subscription service in a big way, opening up a lot of features that were subscription-only before to all device owners: https://remarkable.com/blog/big-changes-are-coming-to-the-re...

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blindseer|3 years ago

These features were free to begin with! Then they got greedy (imo a marketing / sales background product manager thought they should price more aggressively) and started charging for basic features! Honestly the device was completely unusable at that point. And now they are reverting ONLY because Kindle Scribe is going to be out soon, and they need to look like they are a similar product. I can guarantee that unless they have a major shake up in their organization or put it in writing that they will not change their service offerings, this will absolutely happen again.

KennyBlanken|3 years ago

It's not just fiscal greed, either.

Their services are all hosted in Hong Kong, which means that they're subject to China's domestic spying apparatus and rules on encryption.

You'd have to be a moron to trust a device which uses Chinese-territory-hosted servers to store and OCR your documents.

The remarkable2 is a more expensive (if you count subscription fees for 2-3 years), far less capable, far less private device than an iPad with Apple Pencil. You can get the screen texture for a few dollars off Amazon.

Almost any iPad can do text recognition and handwriting recognition completely offline; this thing can't do any of that without an internet connection.

They keep having to pimp it on HN because it's not a competitive-in-the-marketplace device.

ad404b8a372f2b9|3 years ago

All cloud features remained free for people who owned the device before they implemented the subscription model as far as I know, it's not a bait and switch.

indigochill|3 years ago

But if you're worried about greed ruining a good product, Kindle Scribe is an Amazon product and Amazon isn't exactly known for being a champion of its customers (though maybe I'm unfairly conflating their web store with the tablet branch).

> or put it in writing that they will not change their service offerings

Also I put zero faith in what a company puts in writing unless it's in a legally binding contract. Anything else is trivial to change or ignore.

bioemerl|3 years ago

I think they just started to run out of money because nobody was buying and their competition annihilates them in terms of features.

Do you know one of the things people really want from the tablet?

The ability to draw shapes. They don't add it on the basis of idealism "it must be like paper".

squarefoot|3 years ago

Only time will tell. I'd be tempted to buy one, but at present I'd rather wait some more time for the PineNote to reach an usable state. My use case would be mostly at home, so it would be essential to be able to read from local NFS or SMB shares, caching on the on board SD card the latest accessed books, something that would be trivial to implement in a Open Source reader, but I doubt commercial ones would do. And of course any attempt to force me use a phone app or any online services would immediately turn me away.

marcus_holmes|3 years ago

The thing is basically a tiny Linux machine running a webserver and ssh. You can mess with it all you like (with the usual caveats about knowing what you're doing and risking bricking it).

I've ssh'd into mine and it looks just like you'd expect. I didn't mess with anything (because I know that I don't know what I'm doing with it).

I've also used the "email me a PDF of this page" function a couple of times and it works perfectly.

I bought mine before the subscription kicked in, and got grandfathered in, so I can't comment on that.

jimktrains2|3 years ago

scp doesn't work as their default reader renames the file and keeps a database. (That's probably why it doesn't present a usb disk.) Getting files to my remarkable (1) is honestly my only complaint with it.

You can run koreader or others, and then scp would be usable.

archontes|3 years ago

To echo this, I have a Likebook Mimas, and this is exactly how it's implemented. I realize they're different, but I'm not surprised they're similar.