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I do this too. As well as ebooks, I have all my household manuals on it (washing machine, gas boiler, etc.) plus manuals for various devices - so much better than either keeping the paper ones, or keeping PDFs on the computer, as you can annotate them too!
There is a beta feature for using the reMarkable as a 'whiteboard' but it's very very buggy right now.
I always found it remarkable that a small regional studio like DMA could come out with two of the most important video games ever made (Lemmings and GTA).
The fact that it's a single-purpose (ish) device, and that it feels and works so much like real paper.
It's like being able to carry an infinite number of infinitely long paper notebooks with you.
I used to get through about one paper notebook a month, and couldn't find notes I'd taken 3+ months ago. Now everything I've ever noted is available with 5-30 seconds of searching and paging about.
The fact that, if I've written a bunch of notes in the wrong place, I can cut and paste them elsewhere is something I use every day. Everything is so much more organised.
Also, and it's definitely NOT designed as an e-reader, but if you convert your ebooks to fit the screen, it's approximately the size of a hardback book page, which I find miles more comfortable to read from than my Kindle.
Response time (i.e. pen touch to pixel appearing) on the latest generation of e-ink devices is literally imperceptible, though I believe they've had to cut a few minor corners to get it to that level.
I own a reMarkable 2.
There is certainly enough to justify the cost, if you are a prolific note-taker.
Conversely, I find it hard to justify the cost of an iPad, becuase I already have a phone and several laptops. I can't see a situation where a tablet would be more useful to me, so I've never bought one.
Turns out different people have different needs, and the e-ink note-taking market caters to that. Most people would find an iPad more useful, so they're lower cost.
I use Violentmonkey - I can't remember why, but I probably installed it due to the Firefox issues years ago and carried on using it. No complaints here.
Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story that the 'OK' button is only labelled that way because in user testing people read the original text - 'Do It' - as 'Dolt'.
for a price
At risk of seeming like a shill (I just like Groupy!) there seems to be a 50% discount code here, making it the price of a coffee: https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/groupy
Their 'Fences' app is excellent (which was the app I bought the bundle for).
In particular, the ability to create a view on the desktop onto another folder. This lets me split my desktop into 'local' and 'cloud' areas by having a fence containing a view onto a Google Drive-hosted folder.
Not free (or 'free') but there is a commercial app that does this very well indeed - Stardock Groupy. It was bundled in with something else I bought years ago and I just leave it running as it's quite handy.
You're definitely not alone.
The sudden switch to WFH, combined with lockdowns etc, caused me to experience pretty severe stress/anxiety issues for the first time. I severely underestimated how vital seeing others every day was for my mental health (I live alone).
I didn't recognise what the symptoms were, because I've always been positive, optimistic and productive, and certainly never had any mental health challenges.
The last 5-6 months have been deeply unproductive as a result. However now I know what I'm dealing with it's getting easier/better, fingers crossed.
Me too! My rM2 has quickly become one of my most-used daily devices, between note-taking, reading/annotating PDFs, reading ebooks and doing sudokus.
I think that's a little unfair.
Gutenberg has some annoyances/quirks, but if you're starting from scratch and using a modern theme it's not bad by any stretch.
Having been in the position of rebuilding two sites from scratch (one personal, one commercial), they are miles easier to edit and maintain with Gutenberg than they were with 'classic' + a third-party page builder.
Not to mention that Portugal has a nationalised healthcare system. I think I'd rather have 430 Eur + nationalised healthcare than $1260 and have to pay out of pocket (or deal with years of paperwork and insurance claims)
I guess freedom of movement allowing Eastern Europeans to legally live, work and pay tax in Western Europe without jumping through hoops, and immediately being able to benefit from the social systems there.
The occasional donation to a non-profit might help people subsist, but it doesn't build a better society with more opportunities for everyone.
Nobody needs an obscene salary for writing code when others are struggling to afford the basics.
As an aside, I remember being really taken aback when I went on holiday to the US and most of the menial jobs were being carried out by Hispanic and Black people. I guess if you are a white American you get inured to it, but as a white European it was kind of creepy and a bit repulsive.
Came here to say this. Chatroulette added unnecessary 'features' that just introduced more friction into the experience (as it were). Which seems to have meant users gravitating to Omegle's bare bones (no pun intended) approach.
It's a novelty gift, like land on the Moon or naming a star.
You'd be better off becoming a Lord or Lady of Sealand: https://sealandgov.org/shop/become-a-lord-lady-baron-or-baro...
The Principality of Sealand is a micronation off the coast of England. Its territory comprises a single ex-WW2 sea fort, ruled over by Prince Michael.
Let's not forget that Britain could have had mega fast fibre broaband in the 1990s if Margaret Thatcher had allowed British Telecom to proceed instead of 'leaving it to the market to decide'.
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-l...
There's an option in fb2k to send opened files to a named playlist (e.g. 'New'), in which case it doesn't disrupt any other playlists you have open and just plays the file like Winamp.
Flash Player works as a standalone app iirc.
No BBC tie-in games like Geordie Racer or Through the Dragon's Eye either!
It's not shallow semantics when what they're saying does not reflect the way these terms are used by many (most?) professional marketers.
Just wait till you try the cake though.
I work for one, and would also not recommend it, unless you like saying the word "hyphen" a lot.
Given someone called John who is a racist, can you find a way to say "John is a racist" in E-Prime without making John seem less racist?
I never turn off airplane mode, so my Kindle can collect all the data it likes! :)
I believe there is evidence that the action of writing by hand forms memories more strongly.
Since all my meetings are video calls now, I've reverted to writing notes, simply because I can't feign concentration on the call and type into a different window at the same time.
I finish my days surrounded by scraps of paper to be typed up. Can't wait for my ReMarkable 2 to arrive.