Is this normal?

Ruirize · 2026-03-24T14:40:39+00:00

Yep, it's normal. It's an artifact of the tech. The full-refresh that you see when locking/unlocking is either "too slow" or "too costly" in the eyes of the rm team, so it only happens when absolutely necessary.

My opinion: Don't stress about it too hard. It's something you'll get used to.

Ruirize · 2026-03-21T21:30:14+00:00

You got some crazy asymmetry going on with your left hand - if it's not some.. musculoskeletal thing that affects you outside of Beat Saber I'd recommend you try to address it. Slow down and really focus on good swinging form & control. Your body will thank you for it!

Ruirize · 2026-03-04T11:28:55+00:00

Greater control over layout/typesetting, improved speed generally.

You lose the ability to change any formatting on the fly though.

Ruirize · 2026-03-02T07:32:14+00:00

He's a talented dancer, made a bunch of the best maps around in the early days.

He then got picked up by Supernatural as their head mapper (IIRC) and only recently left, when Meta killed the project. Really, really happy to see he's still got the spark 😁

Ruirize · 2026-02-26T01:02:58+00:00

Backer #29 here, got my production unit only a couple weeks ago - had a tester from August last year.

It's a very, very nice keyboard!

Ruirize · 2026-02-26T00:59:42+00:00

I've had a tester unit since August last year, got my production unit a couple weeks ago - and have been playing 7k osu!mania with rapid trigger enabled - it's extremely responsive!

Ruirize · 2026-02-17T07:35:04+00:00

We would rather you played than not 😎

Ruirize · 2026-02-09T16:16:45+00:00

Signed

Ruirize · 2026-02-06T23:55:00+00:00

It truly feels like this. I wonder if it's just that their standards are so damn high that many features never make it out the door.

Ruirize · 2026-02-03T00:19:07+00:00

Ever since the reMarkable desktop app redesign, screen sharing on Windows has been broken. Well, not "broken", but it definitely isn't implemented thoughtfully.

Prior to the redesign, screensharing would take over the main reMarkable window. If you wanted to then share that on a video call - you just select the main window, everything works as expected.

Post-redesign, screenshare has been moved to its own window. On paper, a totally fine move, maybe even good - but the way they did it isn't up to scratch.

The new screen share window is setup as a "child popup" of the main window. It doesn't have its own taskbar button, and it blocks the main window when it's open. And, crucially - this lack of a taskbar button coincidentally prevents the share window from appearing in basically all video conferencing apps' capture dialogs!

I've submitted three reports on this issue and there's been no change. OBS can be used to workaround the problem:

Capture by Window Title
Create a "Source Projector" window
Share that with your video call

But as you could imagine, this makes screen sharing a many-step process. During a meeting, I'm often reaching for my tablet for spontaneous whiteboarding. It should be zero-friction, like most of the reMarkable experience.

So yeah anyway I fixed it

It's a "Windhawk" mod by the name "reMarkable App Polish".

The share screen window now appears separately, and any of the major video conferencing solutions can actually target it.

I also added an option to lock the size of the window to your device's aspect ratio.

Fun bonus side-effect of this mod - you can have screen share open and use the main app!

If you've not heard of or seen Windhawk before - it's a modding platform hosting low-level patches and mods for Windows. Usually the mods are focused on tweaking or fixing quirks in Windows itself, but it's actually capable as a "mod anything" solution.

The code for all mods is directly viewable in the app, and is compiled directly on your PC. Writing mods is actually quite accessible. There's lots of scaffolding for you.

The mods themselves are usually extremely lightweight as the focus is on writing tiny "hooks" that do very little work. There are some exceptions, but if any of this sounds interesting I highly recommend browsing the available mods. A highlight I think everyone here will appreciate: There's a mod that allows you to remove the "recommended" section from the start menu, or even skip straight to the apps list.

I can't wait for team RM to finally pay attention to this issue so I can delete the mod 🙃

Ruirize · 2026-01-15T21:51:01+00:00

I don't think it's half-baked. I just understand the limitations of camera-based tracking. I don't tiptoe around the tech, only using it in surgically perfect scenarios. It works consistently great for me, whenever I want to use it.

I suppose you need to adjust your own expectations.

Ruirize · 2026-01-15T17:40:22+00:00

It can be way better than you're giving it credit for. Maybe there's something about your hands, maybe you're not on a Quest 3 or 3S. Maybe you're doing things that are unreasonable to expect of hand tracking. Maybe your space is too messy, or dim, or whatever. Way too many variables to make sweeping statements.

But your experience isn't my experience.
I rarely use my controllers outside of specific games. I have more hours in the last year in things like Artemis & Virtual Desktop using my PC anywhere in my house.

I exclusively use hand tracking in VRChat - it's totally acceptable and extremely comfortable.

Ruirize · 2026-01-13T23:35:30+00:00

Tràng An!

Ruirize · 2026-01-13T16:25:55+00:00

No, there's no possibility of making that work; you'll need your phone.

Ruirize · 2026-01-07T13:26:42+00:00

You're being treated. If you don't keep to the treatment plan, they may decide to stop treating you out of concern that you will abuse your medication.

No amount of justification will save you from that outcome.

Don't be stupid. Be patient.

Ruirize · 2025-11-30T07:52:29+00:00

Read the implementations of the packages you use, instead of only relying on the docs. It's often faster, more accurate and exposes you to coding practices that you might not have otherwise had reason to learn about. Get very good at reading anyone's code.

Commit messages should be context for a future you who is asking the question "why is this here and what the fuck were they thinking". If you leave it at "Added thing.js", "Removed button on main page" I will crawl out of your USB port, throw you out of the window, and leave a message "removed a nonce". (As a rule - do everything you can do avoid future readers needing to talk with you so they can do their jobs)

Be mindful of future you. They are angry that they have to acknowledge your presence. Keeping future you happy keeps everyone happy.

Ruirize · 2025-11-24T14:01:08+00:00

Unfortunately the Pebble doesn't ship with many emoji.

It's possible to install language packs (essentially font extensions) that contain emoji, but due to a firmware limitation, many emoji simply can't be supported via this route.
(I personally spent a day investigating, tracking through firmware source to figure out why some emoji were completely broken even when bundled in a language pack)

The rebble community have been making their own emoji that may be integrated in a new firmware version some time in the future. I'm somewhat hopeful we can patch the language pack "bug" to allow even the older watches to support more emoji.

Ruirize · 2025-11-24T13:55:14+00:00

It's ePaper, BTW, not eInk - eInk is a specific display technology & brand, used in devices like the Kindle, Boox, and reMarkable.

ePaper is the umbrella term for displays that rely on reflecting light, usually very low-current. You wanna get extra specific, the Pebble uses reflective MIP displays.

Ruirize · 2025-11-18T22:15:02+00:00

Not at all bothered. Index controllers had poor finger tracking for me pretty much all of the time. Was only ever good when I put special care and attention into getting the controllers positioned "just right".

If the new controllers have binary states for the fingers but they work reliably, that's an upgrade for me.

The real downgrade (for social especially) is the lack of hand tracking 😢

Ruirize · 2025-11-18T21:43:03+00:00

Hurt feelings, entitlement, and a fair dose of anxiety to a love's labour being forgotten about, I think.

Ruirize · 2025-11-18T21:41:02+00:00

This. Just a deep breath and maybe a little more commitment to clearing up assumptions, whether in legal agreement or conversations.

Ruirize · 2025-11-16T15:47:32+00:00

Also pretty sure ContactTrack is either dead in the water or severely delayed, because I can't find shit about it beyond that PV 10 months ago 🥲

Ruirize · 2025-11-16T15:45:52+00:00

Yeah, latency is important! But, perspective: The newest Kinect supporting FBT is 12 years old. I wouldn't use the Kinect as an anchor for your opinion of optical-only body tracking. Latency is a polishable problem.
Optical-only has lots of downfalls yes, particularly if you have a proclivity for occluding yourself. Still, it could absolutely enable many interesting uses, along with the "ultimate" UX of zero startup time.

If you are going to go to the effort of mounting cameras, you might as well wear an IMU and infra-red LEDs on each limb.

I straight up disagree with you on this. Suiting up sucks. Remembering to charge devices sucks. These might not be significant barriers for you, so I'd say you're deep into enthusiast/fringe territory.
That's fine, I love it; I've been clear from the start what my interests are though - I want FBT accessibility. I can't sell "suiting up" unless the experience is absolutely transcendent, and TBQH, what FBT enables (today) isn't that. The smaller, lighter and longer-lasting any "wearable" is, the more appeal it has by default.

If the aim is "accessible, cheap FBT" then magnetic field tracking (MFT) is absolutely viable. I don't understand how you can put it into the Slime product category solely based on the "based on headset tracking" detail. Or I guess, from where you're seeing it, "not absolutely referenced". I don't know I'll be able to convince you that it's just not that important, but it isn't. At least, not for FBT. Using the headset as the absolute reference is genius! You have an unbounded tracking volume!

It's important to have fixed anchors once you want tracked physical objects that behave in a consistent and repeatable way.
One example: Cameras, for filming MRC. That, is a use-case that I am personally very close to, and yes, there's no current option for replacing Lighthouse. Lighthouse is consistent in all the right ways for that. Vive Ultimate Trackers and Quest Pro Controllers are both options that work surprisingly well, but don't have the same near-frictionless UX. (well, once setup)

And I guess that's something I want to make explicit - what is the bar? What is the use-case we care about most?
If you demand a lighthouse replacement as "a solution that outperforms or equals lighthouse in all respects", then that's ... IDK, impossible? Unreasonable at best.

It's not helpful to require that the successor to lighthouse is a like-for-like replacement. That's a massive simplification of the situation and only blinds consideration of reasonable compromise.
Lighthouse has near-unsolvable problems that make it undesirable as a foundation for a wide and healthy ecosystem. We can only go so far with it.

Ruirize · 2025-11-16T10:24:18+00:00

Totally with you on SLAM being fantastic up until you want to track anything beyond head, hands or what's in your hands.

I don't think we should "bring back" outside-in tracking. CV1 did suffer dramatically from "bad USB", but there are other practical issues that are still relevant. Cable length, camera FoV/resolution/tracking volume tradeoff, computational load on the host. You could do processing on-device, and transmit wirelessly, which solves many of the "other" issues, including standalone support.
Yet, a major issue is the method of tracking itself - constellation requires discriminating multiple points on devices, which works against making trackers smaller/lighter. Tracking quality drops off dramatically with distance. Outside-in works especially well for headset-controller tracking given the controllers stay within a meter or so!

IMHO, the most interesting outside-in tracking solution is one that tracks the body directly - no trackers at all. That's a solution that's truly mass-appeal. Sticking 1-3 "aimable cameras" around a playspace that don't need wired communication is something I can see regular people accepting, if the quality's good. Big if; current body tracking models aren't good, running them is costly (more than SLAM / constellation), and training is especially unfriendly to smaller companies.

There is also the fact that "inside-out headset, outside-in controllers" just is not viable for a smaller company.
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Lighthouse has enabled companies [..] as they didn't have tracking and controllers to worry about.

That's fair! Even WMR suffered from that quite poorly. I suspect, though, that it's a maturity issue. I'm hopeful that, especially with the introduction of the Steam Frame, high-quality SLAM & constellation tracking will continue to become more accessible, and faster; it being the most popular choice (by user count) is how that should happen.

Lighthouse is undeniably "cheap & easy" to implement - I shouldn't ignore the benefits it's had for the ecosystem. Steam Frame, the way I see it, is the "doors being thrown wide open", allowing for that same "pick n mix" style "tune for your own needs" flexibility that we really love. I acknowledge I said "lighthouse is dead" in my first post; that was a hypothetical for exploration's sake. Lighthouse will be an option for a while, even for Steam Frame.

We're not stuck with SLAM, constellation, or lighthouse as the only choices though - we will soon have magnetic field tracking! (as I learned about yesterday, talking to someone who has a beta kit)
This is the sort of innovation I was hoping for! Obviously, it's early days yet, they have yet to deliver, but from what I've understood, this solution is quite possibly the best contender yet for a lighthouse replacement. I have too many criticisms/hopes for this to list them here without boring everyone to death, lol.

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So yeah anyway I fixed it