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by SushiHippie 688 days ago
> I've since sold the tablet and picked up a remarkable that I am very happy with and have modified in many ways.

Could you elaborate a bit more about the modifications you've done to the remarkable?

After looking at all these devices, I always come back to the remarkable, but then things like their cloud subscription thing and the weird ways to get files to/from it steer me away.

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It's just linux under the hood and they give you root access. So you can install anything that you can compile, and you have access to all the compiled packages in entware [0].

For sync, I have wireguard and syncthing. For backups, I use rsync. For epubs, I have koreader. I even installed netsurf for fun, but I don't use it often. I was even using gocryptfs at one point, but that workflow kept breaking with updates so I stopped using that.

All of the tablets that I have seen perform handwriting recognition via a cloud service, so that doesn't interest me and I haven't come across any local solutions for rM (although it's been over a year since I last checked).

It's an unusually nice experience for such an open platform.

[0]: https://toltec-dev.org/

Ah TIL, thanks!