[MisterKent]

Remarkable seems to be a pretty hackable device? They give SSH ability and have stated they're not removing it. I think it's a very good balance of letting the community do weird things while they focus on their core product.

I say this as someone who has not purchased one, but is considering it.

[diggan]

> I say this as someone who has not purchased one, but is considering it.

I used to be a reMarkable owner (until I lost it :( ) and I agree that the devices are very user-friendly in terms of hackability and ability to use it long after the company itself is gone. Getting SSH access by flicking a toggle in the settings sounds like the opposite of "hostile to the community".

[leetrout]

A token of goodwill for compliance with GPL. If they actually cared about the community they would share the spec for Xochitl docs and such. Instead some blessed few in the discord know people at the company and get some info through back channels for the UI bits and the rest is cobbled together reverse engineering. Some people seem fine with that but coupled with their robo-law firm sending C&D takedowns to community sites where people share content they have created for reMarkable™ tablets and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Glad others have had better experiences.

[cooperadymas]

Are you sure you aren't confusing Remarkable with something else? I have never heard of them sending C&D letters, nonetheless to community sites.

Searching for this I could find only a single example from 4 years ago where they sent a C&D to remarkable-explorer.com. Aside from the copyright issues, this site seemed to be using non-public APIs and asking the user to enter authorization tokens directly on it. I don't have all the facts but I'm not surprised this would be problematic.

[leetrout]

Here's more evidence https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1evdt9p/c...

[akerl_]

Etsy shops are a “community site”?

[awwaiid]

They update on that reddit makes it sound resolved?

I heard boox was very not gpl comiant too

[leetrout]

I received one so yes i am quite sure.

[didibus]

Would have been a good disclosure to include from the get go.

[michaelcampbell]

Very curious to see this; can you post a PII-redacted copy or paste?