Post Assx7KdL5B6v1hbCTY by reto@pleroma.labrat.space
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 (DIR) Post #Assx7JQBaazlGcRBKq by fabio@manganiello.social
       2025-04-08T09:40:53.412491Z
       
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       Less than a week into my new #BOOX Note Air4, and I already don’t know how my life was before it.This device is amazing. After years spent using old B&W notebooks and synchronizing them to SD cards, I have a notebook that runs a modern version of Android, and with a Notes app that actually supports WebDAV synchronization - which means that my notes will be available as PDF files on my Nextcloud instance as soon as I close them.Since it runs Android pretty much without restrictions, I’ve also proceeded with installing F-Droid on it and Fennec, Element, my RSS app, Nextcloud Notes and ntfy.Oh, and since it’s basically an Android tablet with a color e-ink screen and 6GB of RAM you could also watch videos on it (but again just because you can it doesn’t mean that you should).And its AI features are also nice an unintrusive. Wrap some handwritten stuff in a square/rectangle, and it can easily be converted into text. Do a messy scribble on something, and anything underneath will be erased (although I still think that the double-sided pen/eraser gadget shipped with the Mobiscribe was more intuitive).And this device really shines with the #KOReader app. It turns it into a powerful e-book reader, and with #Wallabag, RSS feeds and OPDS support (synchronized with my personal library running on #Ubooquity) you can’t ask for more.Oh, and shall we talk about the ability to run SSH sessions on an e-ink tablet?
       
 (DIR) Post #Assx7KdL5B6v1hbCTY by reto@pleroma.labrat.space
       2025-04-08T15:32:59.256250Z
       
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       @fabio I looked at it, but was afraid of the very old Android version they ship. The company seems to come up with a new device every other month rather than maintaining older generations.No issues with app compat at this time?
       
 (DIR) Post #AstPpbN70bDEOhuHqq by fabio@manganiello.social
       2025-04-08T19:21:45.998491Z
       
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       @reto it currently runs Android 13, which is 3 years old. So far I haven’t experienced issues with any of the apps I use, but good point when it comes to ease of upgrade. Before this I owned an old Mobiscribe that ran an ancient version of Android (still on Nougat), and that indeed at some point started having a lot of issues with newer versions of the apps.At least stuff like KOReader and Syncthing runs pretty much on any Android version, so at least there’s a backup plan for the core functionalities, but I feel indeed like the problem of upgrades of e-ink Android devices is quite common. It seems that very few vendors bother to keep their devices up-to-date. Maybe there’s a strong case for a general-purpose Android distro for e-ink, something like a specialized version of LineageOS…