From remarkable website:

Does the reMarkable adapt to left-handed people? If you're left-handed, don't worry. A few of our colleagues are also left-handed. They want to make sure all lefties have an excellent experience with their reMarkable device. You'll be able to set up your reMarkable to left-handed mode when you first set up your device. We've also made it easy to switch between right-handed and left-handed modes in the main settings.

Good to know. Techcrunch needs better writers...

TC needs to be banned from HN.

Yup. After reading the article, I was dumbfounded when the solution to the left/right handedness is a simple screen flip.

Glad the OEM thought this through.

I think that's talking about the first reMarkable. reMarkable 2 looks very optimized for right handed use.

But I'll be honest--I don't purchase "left-handed" notebooks or use them backwards or left-handed books or anything so maybe it doesn't actually matter as much as right-handed people think it does when righties writing articles imagine what lefties think.

The original was designed for both hands in the software. I think it's likely the new one will be as well, and any insinuation by the author otherwise is probably wrong.

I think that was just misleading fluff. I'm left-handed and I have a current gen reMarkable. It has a good left-handed mode. It looks to me like the metal strip on the left side is meant more as a mount point for the cover. I don't think they neglected lefties in the design of this device. IMHO, the extra space on the left side from the metal strip makes it easier for a left-handed person to rest their palm while writing.

It does look like they support some kind of left-hand mode in the settings, but it's practically impossible to find this on their website or what it actually means in practice. Very disappointing given about 10% of people are left-handed (including me).

I own the 1st gen and it has a left hand mode. Basically the UI gets mirrored. The 1st gen device itself is left-right symmetric, so it works well. The 2nd gen has the metal bar on the left, so not sure how well it works on it.

wondering if that's just an assumption by the author -- can you not just rotate it 180°?

It has a physical design with an up and down, so you would have it upside down, with the buttons on top.

[On the original, you could not] rotate the device 180 and use it normally, but you could click a toggle in the settings which would reflect the UI laterally, for left-handed people.

Has to be that way. Same as Kindle Oasis.