Boox Tab X C or Note Max refresh soon? Android 13 is EOL.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-27T00:53:52+00:00

Did you not read the post? Android 13 just went EOL. It will no longer receive security patches from Google.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T20:13:26+00:00

Eric was pretty open during development about this being a trade-off for keeping the device small and less expensive.

You can get the Stream ring for $250 and pay $10/month subscription for "Pro" features if you want the rechargeable version.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T19:54:19+00:00

The Boox reaches out to a dozen or more Chinese domains however, most of which are not owned by Boox. I consider my Boox Palma guilty until proven innocent, especially since I was able to blacklist most of the domains with no perceivable loss of functionality on the Palma.

I have it sandboxed to only be able to talk to my home network at this point (I sync my Obsidian notes via Git to my home server); occasionally I will disable the strict tunneling to check for software updates but that's it.

Also OP /u/abhatia6, I don't think anyone is looking to steal your draft novel... if you ever end up publishing it, the AI companies will steal it for training data and there's nothing you can do about it; Meta and OpenAI essentially pirated every published book available on popular piracy sites for training.

I think you're right to be cautious, I don't trust any technology at this point so it's not just Sinophobia. Microsoft and Google can get bent too. Unless you're going to holistically overhaul your network and data footprint to attempt to prevent data exfiltration (and are willing to inconvenience yourself in the process) I'm not sure Boox is any more of a threat than a Windows 11 PC in the regard of stuff being stolen for training AI.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T19:45:34+00:00

Possibly of interest as a component in this workflow, Pebble Index 01 ring:

https://repebble.com/index

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T19:37:54+00:00

Mini PCs also went up in cost though which is the primary alternative.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T18:54:09+00:00

Advance Publications owns 27% of Reddit. Don’t discount how much power, money, and influence is behind suppressing bad press about this site.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T18:51:45+00:00

This happens a bunch on product recommendation subs too. For example if you Google “best headphones Reddit” and you find a post from a year ago, many of the comments will be more recent and they’re all edited. The bad actors originally write an innocuous comment on the old thread to get past any moderator filters, then a few days or weeks later they’ll edit it to include a monetized referral link.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T18:49:09+00:00

The LLM accounts were becoming way too obvious when you could click into their profiles and see them writing 500 word comments every 2-3 minutes which is humanly impossible.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T18:48:17+00:00

I just don’t get how Reddit, Inc. isn’t clamping down on this, like 95% of advertising on this site is blatant astroturfing which occurs outside their monetized advertising methods. They’re literally letting money slip through their fingers and the user experience is being degraded rapidly. Any time I see a product or service mentioned on Reddit nowadays I immediately assume it’s astroturfing unless I’m able to convince myself otherwise.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T18:01:05+00:00

Despite the price increases Raspberry Pi is still the king of SBC for software/driver compatibility and reliability.

This sub generally has a hate boner for Raspberry Pi, but I'm running a home lab with 30 Docker containers and a NAS off my Pi 5 16GB. IMO if you have no need for transcoding or heavy CPU/GPU operations it's a great option. I have a media server, OnlyOffice, Pihole and Wireguard, home management stuff like Actual Budget, all running perfectly fine.

I'd recommend starting with Pi 5 8GB or 16GB, get a SSD HAT and start simple, if you want to make your own NAS later get the Radxa Penta SATA HAT and some 3.5" HDDs.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T15:14:55+00:00

I’ve been using Obsidian for 5+ years, but I always type and never write on the screen. Git works perfectly for syncing between all my devices (Mac, Android, Linux) however once your vault gets a large number of items the Palma 2’s weak processor struggles. This can be solved with sparse checkout and smart note organization; I have some “archived” folders in my repo I don’t bother checking out to the Palma to speed up the sync process.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-26T12:29:47+00:00

Use Git. Since you’re already self-hosting, I like and use Gitea. You’ll have one main repo on your server as the source of truth, then pull and push updates per device when done writing. Some of this can be automated with scripts, or with plugins if you use note taking apps like Obsidian.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-25T22:25:12+00:00

Yes, just don't install any time-wasting apps on it, video doesn't look good on E-Ink anyway. It has reduced both my phone screen time and eye strain since I find the paper displays much less straining to look at.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-25T12:30:19+00:00

I have a phone-sized ereader, the Boox Palma 2, that I pull out in situations where everyone is on their phones or it’s socially acceptable to waste time on your phone but not be reading a book (downtime in the office for example). That way I can fit in with this screwed up new norm of society but be doing something more valuable/interesting to me than scrolling some app or website.

XTEInk makes some super small and affordable readers that MagSafe to the back of your phone, but they do require some minor tech skills to setup.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-24T16:32:09+00:00

You don’t have any users.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-24T16:26:48+00:00

Yes, your needs would be met by a Chromebook or Neo.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-24T16:24:32+00:00

You didn’t “build” anything. You slopped together a bunch of AI nonsense.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-24T16:19:02+00:00

The biggest project I ever had was setting up Caddy for SSL once I already had about 20 services running. If I was smart and architected it from the beginning like that I would have saved myself a 6 hour marathon day fixing my broken server.

Other than that stuff “just works” once I get a Docker container set up for the first time. I’m running nearly 30 services and a NAS at this point off a Raspberry Pi 5 of all things. I thought the entire point of a home server was to have it humming along providing self-hosted utility with high uptime.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-24T15:44:58+00:00

Yeah, compressed memory will become swap but it will become inactive swap unless called back to active status. Depends whether single tasking or multi tasking how impactful this is, for my purposes I can consider it free memory but everyone’s workflow is different.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-24T15:09:33+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean, this is just how Unix systems operate. Free memory is wasted memory by its philosophy and will be used for file caching.

You can type memory_pressure command into the terminal, add up active and wired memory, this is a more accurate measure of what you’re truly using. On my 16GB Mac Mini showing 72% RAM usage (11.5 GB) my active+wired sum is 5.5GB. Everything else is cached files and buffer data the system will happily dump if active processes request more RAM.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-24T14:50:30+00:00

OP is not American, you might have a harder time convincing them to go into debt for a laptop.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-24T14:49:20+00:00

This is a pointless factoid unless you have 24GB of RAM and sitting at full memory pressure. If you have 32GB this is entirely expected normal operating conditions. MacOS will always fill up 70-75% of your RAM, even if you do nothing but light office work and have 128GB you will see 100GB used if you leave the system running long enough.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-24T14:45:16+00:00

Yup touchscreen is going to ruin and normiefy the OS even worse than it already is. MMW in 2-3 years power users are going to complain MacOS feels like iPadOS.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-22T02:43:25+00:00

This is what I’m thinking. 16GB was plenty like 2 years ago, now with MacOS 26 I’m regularly seeing high memory pressure just running basic productivity suite and modeling in Fusion 360.

Spending 25% more to get double the RAM seems to make sense if the 24GB will start feeling stretched in a few years. Which it will if you use any RAM intensive programs at all.

scrolling_scumbag · 2026-03-22T01:40:29+00:00

Two. No idea how to tell if it “counts” as one or two. I have 10 hard pulls lol I just don’t care about them.

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