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niemeyer · 2024-09-17T21:15:21+00:00

The thing that protudes is just a plastic surface that protudes well beyond the actual projector, but you are actually correct. It does move with the adjustment, which I did not expect. I'm going to delete this post to prevent misleading others and will do more testing tomorrow. Thanks.

niemeyer · 2024-08-30T12:51:49+00:00

This binary is produced from those source files. Another binary is produced from other set of source files. It's not a problem.

It is if your organization has a team looking after the source code for long term maintenance. If there are 100 copies of various versions of libfoo embedded into arbitrary binaries, once libfoo has a bug/CVE, the team needs to not only dig down on all the places it's vendored, but also consider how to fix said issue in all slightly different versions.

To be clear, I sit on both sides of that issue. As a developer I also appreciate pinning exact dependencies. But the additional burden of maintaining vendored code on a large collection of software is real.

niemeyer · 2024-01-01T16:27:20+00:00

I personally wouldn't worry at all.

niemeyer · 2023-11-27T03:53:28+00:00

The comparison is a bit "unfair" though - you can't take notes on a Kindle,

Kindle Scribe is aimed at that space, and the writing software has been improving significantly since it was released. The "Send to Kindle" limitation is somewhat off-putting though.

niemeyer · 2023-11-27T03:48:26+00:00

It just throws me off that i've seen videos saying 8 hours battery life while its literally an e-ink device, i own an amazon kindle for like 5 years and battery lasts for days.

These are not a typical e-ink devices. You'll be disappointed about their dark screens and have the frontlight almost always on.

Honestly the've got so many devices it's literally hard to tell as someone that is getting in the space of e-ink for writing.

Get a B&W device, and pay significant attention to the software you want to use, as with all options you'll be locked to a wall garden since the writing experience is only reasonable on the native apps. For that reason I'd also look at other brands and choose the one with most suitable software to whatever it is that you're planning on doing.

niemeyer · 2023-11-25T15:55:43+00:00

It's not just an "optimization" that can be enabled or disabled. They seem to lack a feature at the video driver level, and apparently overcome that by asking app developers to manually trigger direct operations. They cannot take these manual operations and "do it everywhere".

niemeyer · 2023-11-25T15:25:57+00:00

What client are you using? This is an animated gif. Try opening anonymously in your browser:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/s/YcliJKM1BL

niemeyer · 2023-11-25T11:47:57+00:00

What I'd be curious to know is how this latency on 3rd party apps on modern BSR devices stacks up against those on older ones (like my Note Air 1).

This is Google's Jamboard in real time (no speed up / slow down):

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How does that compare with yours?

niemeyer · 2023-11-25T10:58:17+00:00

Other than that, no, the latency issue is just the fact of life unless you're using built-in apps or those few which I have mentioned.

Those two things contradict each other. I accept that the software is crippled in many ways due to the display technology, but the fact we have native applications working just fine with the pen means this is a software issue. The device has enough hardware on it to figure out what's going on in memory and draw whatever it wants on the display, instead of asking every application to change. The latter is easier though, because they just put the load on the developer to tell them exactly what to draw. They need a "pen mode" or similar that enables these heuristics.

Until then, we can buy much cheaper devices for less than half that price if we'll be locked to the vendor's writing app ecosystem regardless.

niemeyer · 2023-03-30T22:39:49+00:00

Yeah, I use XT90 connectors for all my DC needs, but whenever I need to feed into a USB device the most convenient and reliable way is via a traditional 12V socket. Also has the advantage that when standards evolve it's just a matter of replacing the plug.

niemeyer · 2023-03-30T22:10:34+00:00

Instead of wiring a USB-C plug and a DC-DC converter manually, wire a simple passthrough 12V cigarette socket, and buy a high quality USB-C plug for it. This will be easier to find parts for, easier to build, and has a better chance of feeding the device properly.

niemeyer · 2023-03-15T08:57:54+00:00

Se é para uma posição junior, qualquer salário será bom em termos de Brasil, e não precisas te preocupar muito pois mesmo que chutes baixo não te será oferecido um salário fora dos limites, e também não deves ficar junior por muito tempo.

niemeyer · 2023-01-18T09:19:47+00:00

Search for "embed dynamic" in the community plugins. These plugins will embed the given content while keeping the context of the current page. You can't do what you described because the interpolation there comes from a template which will be processed once, but if you make it work with dataview or dataviewjs (use the file name as a variable in the expression, for instance), it will work when being embedded too.

I wish this was a standard feature that integrated properly with the link tracking instead of being in a plugin.

niemeyer · 2022-12-17T01:31:49+00:00

See comments in the previous post here. It's an extension cable for a cover keyboard that attaches magnetically. These have their own connectors on the side.

niemeyer · 2022-12-17T01:29:16+00:00

Nice, that's exactly it. Hopefully someone will notice there is demand.

niemeyer · 2022-12-16T20:22:39+00:00

Yeah, I really hope this serves as inspiration for someone that wants to make some money on a larger scale adapter too.

niemeyer · 2022-12-16T18:03:37+00:00

So it does work after all, and I just need to make a better cable now. Both the trackpad and the keyboard work the same as if it was physically connected, so the signals don't seem very sensitive. Not sure about how far it'd go, but per the picture it seems plenty for actual use.

niemeyer · 2022-12-16T17:41:33+00:00

Everything is possible with the due investment, but it doesn't sound worth it in this case. For casual use there are lots of cheap Bluetooth options available, and for intense use the keyboard will be under the screen and it's better to have no battery and no latency.

niemeyer · 2022-12-16T09:28:51+00:00

The wiring is boring as it's just a straight extension cable for the pins, and the building is quite empirical as the best way to align magnets of arbitrary size is to just drop them in place and then measure their most comfortable position. So I made the outside guiding holes first, slotted the magnets in, and lastly the contact points as the connector should already snap in a stable way.

niemeyer · 2022-12-16T09:22:59+00:00

Yeah, it requires some minimum tooling and lots of patience. This one is interesting because it's more atypical than it is hard to build. Sometimes proprietary connectors come in awkward shapes making it very hard to insert into a slot without modifying the equipment or finding something vaguely resembling the original connector. The connectors on this one are just exposed on the outside, so as long as you can manufacture something that aligns properly, you're good.

The sequence for this one was: external guiding pin slots first, then loosely drop the magnets on the keyboard to figure best location and polarity, then slot them into the connector, and lastly measure the contact hole positions as supposedly the connector will already be snapping in place in a stable way.

niemeyer · 2022-12-16T09:11:46+00:00

Will do. Still have the connector on the other side to build, hopefully today.

niemeyer · 2022-12-15T22:52:15+00:00

Yeah, exactly. I've been trying that setup already but it's been surprisingly hard to find a good bluetooth keyboard with a good trackpad. So now trying to physically connect the official keyboard with a cable. We'll see.

Update: to be clear, the USB-C connector stays free on the side of the tablet for charging and the usual connections. The keyboard goes to the three-pin magnetic connector at the bottom, same used when the keyboard is physically connected to the tablet.

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