eink display, digitizer?
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Hmm...

 I like Amazon Kindle because of its hardware design, screen quality, and performance, but I don't like the fact its too DRM- and Amazon-centric, and running my apps of choice on it is pretty much impossible.

I like Barnes & Noble Nook (not the Color one) because it runs usual Android and I can sideload most other apps I want to use - readers, file managers, clients for self-hosted cloud storage sync where I keep all my DRM-free books, note-taking apps, etc., but it is severely under-powered, with a mere 512MiB RAM and a weak-sauce CPU.

I like the Onyx Boox because they combine the best qualities of Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook flagships... But I just have hard time trusting them. It's probably not entirely rational, since once you think about it the whole of PBP is manufactured in China, and even my beloved ThinkPads are made in China... though with PBP I can completely wipe all firmware and replace it with my own, and with ThinkPads while I'm still reliant on UEFI to boot and ACPI for power management at least I can run my own OS of choice, and with Onyx Boox I'm stuck with whatever vendor-modified Android version the Chinese (a.k.a. communist-controlled) manufacturer put on there. I know I may sound like a proponent of McCarthyism, but I was born in a communist country so I know that plague from the inside.

Anyway, paranoid conspiracy theories aside, I'd love to see an e-Ink device that runs fully open-source stack!
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eink display, digitizer? - by ashleymills - 02-22-2021, 01:25 AM
RE: eink display, digitizer? - by poVoq - 02-22-2021, 08:20 AM
RE: eink display, digitizer? - by ashleymills - 02-23-2021, 12:30 PM
RE: eink display, digitizer? - by poVoq - 02-24-2021, 03:57 AM
RE: eink display, digitizer? - by r10game - 03-15-2021, 11:45 AM
RE: eink display, digitizer? - by moonwalkers - 02-28-2021, 11:54 PM
RE: eink display, digitizer? - by tllim - 03-02-2021, 09:57 PM
RE: eink display, digitizer? - by ashleymills - 03-04-2021, 10:24 AM

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