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

  • SparkingEnglish
    34•7 months ago

    Just an open source e-ink device with the build quality of a Kindle. Nothing fancy.

    • @utopiah
      3•7 months ago

      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.

      • SparkingEnglish
        2•7 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
        1•7 months ago

        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.deEnglish
          1•7 months ago

          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.

          • SparkingEnglish
            1•7 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.