• mynachmadarch
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      151 month ago

      Same, the first 13" colour e-ink that doesn’t cost more than a single limb I’m so getting if I can swing it. I read digit comic books so much and having it as e-ink is my dream.

    • Beaver
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      271 month ago

      Off grid is gonna explode with ev campers

      • @[email protected]
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        If your gaming setup isn’t ready for the climate crisis, then you’re not going to have a good time.

        People need the RTX 5000 for fps.

        I need it for super low wattage at 480p, 30fps.

    • Kernal64
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      Some company made one once, back in the early 2010s. I think they released a successor the following year, but neither phone sold well enough to keep going. It would be cool as hell if that were more common, though.

        • Андрей Быдло
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          At the time they’ve been seen as a gimick, mostly because they were PRed by the government as our local invention and an iphone-killer it wasn’t. That’s a shame.

      • @[email protected]
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        There’s one active brand still making e-ink phones, both single and doubled screen. It’s HiSense. The devices look pretty nice.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      161 month ago

      What would be cooler is if we could build our own phones, like we can desktops, so it can have exactly the features and specs we want.

      • DaDragon
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        There’s nothing technically stopping you from building an android smartphone just the way you like. In fact, there’s extreme modding folks that do things like already. What we really lack is a future-proofed connector standard for component connectivity that just works.

    • @MeDuViNoX
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      I know it’s not the exact same, but most folding phones are double sided screens on one face. I just don’t know how much I’d use it if it was a non-folding style with front and back screens.

  • @[email protected]
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    If refresh rate and ghosting is reasonable for scrolling I could see myself using it. For movies and games I would just turn on second monitor.

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      I literally read all day, this would be fantastic. Books. Visual media has subtitles and usually is something I’m gonna Google further while watching/playing. I mostly consume text based social media and news.

      … fuck I think I just want a newspaper

      • @nehal3m
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        161 month ago

        Much cheaper, no electricity required, no ChatGPT generated clickbait horseshit AND you can kill flies!

        • Bo7a
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          71 month ago

          I’m seeing a lot of “ai” generated trash in the paper now :(

          • @[email protected]
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            51 month ago

            I feel like this could be a lame drinking game when bored: Is it AI generated or just bad/lazy writers?

            • @[email protected]
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              Ooh I’d be great at that. I was trying to buy a pan on Amazon (I know…) and I scrolled past the reviews… without reading any of the words, I identified the first review I saw (not the LLM-generated summary, an actual review) as being LLM trash. I immediately said “AI” to my partner and we read it… they laughed when it ended up being OBVIOUS AI trash. I can tell by the shape of how words are laid out at this point apparently hahaha

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      101 month ago

      Almost all of our GUI software was designed with high refresh rate screens in mind, so it can be clunky to use e-ink ones. If we had GUis based on section changing, instead of scrolling, it wouldn’t be a problem. On pcs, using the page up and down keys can be a workaround, but on phones, it’s complicated.

  • Gormadt
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    271 month ago

    I’m very interested for when a price is announced for this

    Hopefully it’s reasonable

    • wagoner
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      What would you regard as reasonable? If I recall correctly, 800 dollars was the price for the last 13 inch e ink display I saw.

      • circuitfarmer
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        231 month ago

        That brings it outside of the reasonable range for most people, I would think.

        Am I right in suggesting that e-ink displays remain artificially overpriced because of the company that ultimately owns the patent?

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          I would seriously consider something like this since my computing job requires me to stare at a light bulb all day. Perhaps there’s a demographic that would spring for this in the same way there is for quality chairs.

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            61 month ago

            offices seem like a prime target for e-ink displays while it stays in this expensive early stage

        • wagoner
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          I have assumed prices are high because it’s a small market, at least with the current technology.

  • HorreC
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    181 month ago

    I dont want these small ones, I want a 55 inch one, so I can just have rotating art on the wall.

      • HorreC
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        I saw a few of these some years back and I thought, yes its ganna hit the commercial market and we will get better and larger. Then it just fell off into a pit.

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    Damn, I LOVE e-ink screens, I’d love to have almost all my devices using it, I love to read freely without getting eye strain from it. I’d even give away being able to watch videos in my phone for an e-ink screen.

    But it seems like I will never be able to use it anywhere besides my cheap second hand ereader… the prices are always astronomically high :( even chinese e-ink tablets are too expensive for me.