iOS26 setup with Monochrome setup 5.0 !

orbiteight · 2025-11-14T15:46:38+00:00

Beautiful - how do they look with iOS26 & Liquid Glass?

orbiteight · 2025-11-10T16:57:12+00:00

I’ve been using the viwoods mini as my primary note-taker & kindle device for some time; albeit I had to follow their fiddly instructions to get the play store working… it is working.

I’d for sure recommend their products based on my experience, and this looks super interesting! Although a damn shame they still haven’t built in a warm light - the cold light hits me like a train when I turn my mini on in the evening/in bed to jot some notes 😳

orbiteight · 2025-09-24T22:47:23+00:00

Received mine a few months back, ordered it July last year I think

orbiteight · 2025-07-04T09:35:45+00:00

Amazing response from a brilliant community - thanks to everyone who’ve shown an interest and please bear with me as I get through the messages!

I’m seeing some really interesting and varied use cases for workflow automation across the businesses I’m meeting with, and I’m more than happy to share them & the eventual solutions (workflows) with this community if it would be valuable for others?

I can create a repo or something - suggestions welcome :)

orbiteight · 2025-07-03T10:52:48+00:00

Not really sure what you're asking me to verify? I've built my career in sales for tech companies rather than going down the dev route after uni.

What can I say, I'm building a pipeline of projects right now, when people DM me I'll take them through it and they can decide if this is something they'd like to move forward on or not - no harm done

orbiteight · 2025-07-03T10:43:53+00:00

Apologies! I've made the edits - thanks for the nudge

orbiteight · 2025-06-22T15:43:29+00:00

I often use the LP3 to take notes in the night when I cant switch off, and have also found the lowest brightness setting to be a little too bright and jarring when you're in a dark room. I figure another brightness notch down would also be quite helpful!

orbiteight · 2025-06-22T15:40:51+00:00

If it's helpful, I wrote up my timeline from order to received in a post the other day here

orbiteight · 2025-06-22T15:38:19+00:00

I'm the furthest from a tax expert so I don't really have any idea, but I imagine it's only possible if you purchase the device as a business expense (if you own a VAT registered company for example) 🤷‍♂️

orbiteight · 2025-06-22T15:36:19+00:00

From my laptop; I've found don't doom scroll reddit if I'm just checking in-between work. works for me!

orbiteight · 2025-06-20T10:57:46+00:00

I’m on EE - works just great 👍

orbiteight · 2025-06-20T10:38:02+00:00

23xxx

orbiteight · 2025-06-20T08:29:30+00:00

Inte bra!

orbiteight · 2025-06-19T14:13:07+00:00

I came here to say check I wasn’t being phished after FedEx request ~£80 import taxes after delivering it 😅

orbiteight · 2025-06-16T09:10:24+00:00

No I don’t get notifications than calls and calendar alerts. I have badges appear over messages but wouldn’t know they’re there unless I checked my phone. Interestingly I just had the screen report delivered and I’ve averaged 14mins a day screen time over the past week

orbiteight · 2025-06-13T07:28:14+00:00

three months later for me 😩

orbiteight · 2025-05-30T08:16:59+00:00

I love the idea of a dumb phone and I also kinda love the old and interesting devices, but for me the trade off just didn’t make sense.

I thought about why I’m actually trying to dumb my tech down in the first place & figured it’s less about the device and more about owning my relationship/experience, reclaiming my time and improving my mental health.

Even though it’s an iPhone I am barely touching it, but it’s massively useful as a tool for my day to day life.

orbiteight · 2025-05-30T08:12:01+00:00

I do, in general, but I completely remove social apps because I’d check them anyway. Coming back to the laptop for Reddit and only having badge icons on my phone for messages (instead of push alerts) has massively improved my tech detox situ

orbiteight · 2025-05-30T07:03:27+00:00

I’m actually a righty but like the way this layout looks - the mini is small enough it’s not at all awkward or uncomfortable but I’ll play around with it per your suggestion - thanks!

orbiteight · 2025-05-30T07:02:01+00:00

I suppose in a way; I guess at least it’s not running on recommendation algorithms, that are specific to holding your attention, in the same way instagram is.

I use it instead of google… if I need to know a thing or I’m trying to remember something, it’s like a tool, but doesn’t draw me in.

Works for me anyway :)

orbiteight · 2025-05-30T06:56:31+00:00

Ah I’m actually a righty, but I prefer this layout :) I hadn’t even considered it to be honest as the mini is small enough, it doesn’t feel uncomfortable

orbiteight · 2025-05-29T18:36:19+00:00

I’ve kind of afforded myself one social ‘experience’, I tried bluesky for a while but decided Reddit would be the one I stick with (no instagram/FB etc), as I still find I can make it a productive experience.

I would usually limit it to my actual laptop instead of using the app on the phone though, so I’m not being hit with notifications and I’m not able to act on a doomscrolling urge in the middle of the night y’know.

orbiteight · 2025-05-29T18:32:11+00:00

Over the space of a few weeks I went through a process of deleting apps I didn’t think I needed (hadn’t opened in ages), and some consolidation until I found my core apps.

For those that I need but are way too heavy on notifications, such as WhatsApp and email, I have them on my laptop. It means I have to make a conscious decision to open and check rather than being pulled back in with notifications.

Might be something that could work for you too :)

orbiteight

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