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Written by David Chisnall (Now with 50% more sarcasm!) on 2025-01-25 at 09:03

Has anyone managed to get a terminal and web browser working on the colour #remarkable tablets? I played with one recently and if I had a terminal and could ssh to another machine and a web browser (don’t care if it’s slow), it would be a great machine for me to stop staring at bright backlit LCDs. Their target market is mostly people who want paper that can be backed up, which isn’t me (if I never have to hold a pen again, I will be happy), but the display technology is impressive. Alternatively, does anyone make a laptop with the same display?

The first #eInk device I owned was an iRex Iliad. This was quite a fun machine because it ran Linux and X11 (which was awful for battery life) and so could easily be set up as a remote display for other things. The screen could do white to black transitions (possible grey to darker grey?) fairly quickly, but the other direction required a complete redraw which took 0.7 seconds. Fine for rendering a page of text, not really usable for much else.

The jump from there to the new colour displays is amazing. Colour reproduction isn’t great (‘I’m thinking: Pastels!’) but with some dithering images are not too bad, and the updates are fast enough that you can draw on the screen with no lag. It would be ample for vim with syntax highlighting (which, let’s face it, is 90% of what I need from a work laptop).

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Written by Moritz Negwer on 2025-01-25 at 09:12

@david_chisnall Haven't tried it (still on the fence about e-ink tablets, but following this space), but maybe this is relevant : https://github.com/toltec-dev/toltec

It's a community-maintained repository of free programs for the remarkable, with some apparently risky installation steps. Someone on Reddit claims to have gotten a terminal working on a non-color remarkable, see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1akkb3s/terminal_yaft_on_my_remarkable/

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Written by David Chisnall (Now with 50% more sarcasm!) on 2025-01-25 at 09:35

@moritz_negwer It looks like that only supports the previous generation (mono) devices and not the latest firmware.

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Written by choffee on 2025-01-25 at 10:12

@david_chisnall I have the original remarkable but for me the joy of it is that it does not have browser or terminal. For your use case it might be easier to go with something like a Boox which have android app support.

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Written by caranea on 2025-01-25 at 11:08

@david_chisnall

The new colour Kindle might also be worth a look (seems they did something nifty with the display). Not sure there is an alternative firmware yet, but generally less barriers to use it in an alternative way.

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Written by redmp (EDITED) on 2025-01-25 at 17:49

@david_chisnall I've got a remarkable2 (from before the color version) set up with tmux, vim, and some compilers .. I'm using the package manager available from toltec-dev.org which only supports up to os version 3.3.2.1666 at present.. the terminal emulator I use is yaft; it's VERY fast.. if you want to follow this setup, first thing would be to check your device's os version or whether it's safe to downgrade to a compatible version

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