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by xnorswap 8 days ago
A fun experiment, and cute if not for the lag. A full 14 seconds between the pen stopping writing and the result,

What I'd find interesting is the trace of that 14 seconds. How much is the Remarkable processing, how much is the claude transcription, how much is the let-go start-up / processing, etc.
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embedding-shape 8 days ago
I haven't used the latest reMarkable devices, but the first/older ones takes multiple seconds to save notes to disk. I remember having similar issues for my own file syncing daemon I tried to make for my reMarkable, where it took many seconds before the filesystem event actually was fired away, it might still be the same issue today I suppose.
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jcattle 8 days ago
The author mentions that in the blog. The majority is the delay of the updated file actually being written to disk by the device.

The author did not find a solution to trigger file write earlier/more frequently.

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xnorswap 8 days ago
They said that, but they described it as "Several seconds", so I assumed there was plenty of other lag too.

Searching the article again, I see in the FAQ:

> Xochitl takes approximately 12 seconds to update the notebook on-disk

12 definitely isn't "several" in my understanding, but regardless, I guess there's little the author can do then.

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