[minimalist]

A lot of comments talk aboue being disappointed and all, but id rather pay for cloud services than have my data sold to merchants and marketeers.

Meanwhile, I have syncthing and gocryptfs installed on my remarkable 2 and have blocked all telemetry domains with the hosts file. If i wanted to, I could even disable xochotl completely (however you spell it).

This is all good and shows that they respect their customers. We should praise this! Of course theyre not perfect--from what I understand the display driver is a big blob so its unlikely that well ever have a totally free OS running, but its way better than any of the chinese spy tablets that fill up the eink tablet space or American spy tablets sold by our favorite advertisement companies directly to our children's schools.

[m-p-3]

They're also well-positioned and pushed the eInk based note-taking line of products ahead of what we currently had. I certainly do hope they remain a viable business and keep iterating.

[fartcannon]

What stops them from charging you and selling your data?

[FormerBandmate]

Being bad at collecting data. We badly need data regulation, the EU had the right idea with GDPR

[dexterdog]

Why do we need regulation? Then it just becomes a thing managed by the powers that be the way they want? If we have properly shepherded data then we need no regulation. If a Remarkable tablet knows you only by a token and encrypts all of your data with your key then the Remarkable company has no access to your data by default even if they host it.

[neximo64]

You can still sell data with GDPR.

[dbbk]

What data does it even have to sell? It's basically an etch a sketch.

[jodrellblank]

Its handwriting recognition is through their cloud service, its default document sync is through their cloud service. They have all your data if you use it the way they intend.

[purplecats]

misplaced faith in capitalism

[dexterdog]

And misplaced identification of this system as capitalism.

[vunTofHueaFFrea]

What would you call it?

[nemothekid]

There is nothing stopping a company from both selling you a subscription and selling your data under a socialist organization of society. It only means the profits of said product would be more evenly distributed.

[thr0w72594]

Capitalism and Socialism aren't the only ways to organize society. The state could force every company that operates within it be beneficial to its citizens.

[nickstinemates]

> would be more evenly distributed.

riiiiiiiight.

[dexterdog]

Crony capitalism. Capitalism is in the name, but that's not what it is at all.

[svennek]

How do you convert the .rm to usable files? I tried it a couple of months ago, and that was the problem (unknown stroke types etc)...