So I accidentally YouTubed nots taking and my feed is now filled with Paperwhite remarkable ads and the new color e-ink tablets and how they all compare to the shitty ipad. Oh yes 4GB of ram! And 16gb storage, not upgradable! Perfect! 😃👍

Which is why I’m here wonder what to spend my cash on if I were to do that.

  1. It has to run Linux and not be locked. I need root. Screw anything else less than this. That eliminates pretty much everything on the market. Self immolation in my opinion. No bloatware of any kind acceptable.

  2. Must run opensource app software… libre office, krita, Gimp, Xournal, Inkscape, Joplin, etc. And like no gimmicks, oh it’s running but barely. I want something with room to spare.

  3. Must have WiFi and Bluetooth with 2024 expected level… nevermind, like 10gb/s 1998 Ethernet speed is totally fine. It should be able to ssh into it, have NFS share access and be able to access NFS shares elsewhere. No network shiftiness.

  4. I want to use it at least for a full day.

So far I got paper, you just can’t run gimp very fast unless you can get a few billion friends together to move the assembly code in parallel.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    29 days ago

    As someone who has one: buy an Microsoft Surface with the Pen and keyboard and shit.

    I’m using a… 3? 4? (6th gen intel, so it’s old AF) and it works perfectly. Touch, pen, removable keyboard, sleep, etc.

    You have to install some specific drivers from the Suface Linux project to get some of that working, but it’s like a whole 10 minute deal.

    Also, they’re cheap as shit at this point, so bonus?