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I'm sorry you feel that way. There's tons of positive advice in reply to you, so I'll say follow them. I know I will, I'm in a tough spot myself having graduated and still searching for my first job. The anxiety and restlessness have started to take a deep toll on my feeble mind. Not having a large social media presence doesn't help since I can't share my thoughts with people either. We'll get through this together :)


Treating `depression` or claiming to have cured depression is something a lot of people look forward to. Couple that with the fact that we are all sitting in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, news stories with catchy titles like these are bound to attract extra eyeballs.


Interesting thought. At that point (or for that fact - at this point) it's is essentially a reusable printable paper. For people arguing about the low resolution of the $70~ model, I would not disregard their argument because we haven't seen it in real life and would love to see how documents scale up on that display.


If you aren't using super-white printer paper, not sure that this is any more eco friendly than printing a sheet of paper off twice a day, every weekday for years. Not sure what the materials impact is for e-ink, and paper is a renewable resource and sourced from trees generally grown specifically making paper as a crop.


The pricing should also play a significant role in its adoption. Especially if unbundled with other phones. At almost $42 and $70 (for the larger display) we should wait to see which subset of customers could justify it's use-case in daily life.


Did you forget an extra zero or are they really this cheap?


Yeah I had to do a double take. It's less than $80 before shipping.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000748950835.html


They're also for sale on Amazon for about the same prices.


Price tags, menus, or e.g. corporate announcements is the only thing I can think of really, but I'm not the most creative.


I've seen a system like this used for price tags already at one of my previous jobs. The tags were e-ink displays that were updated wirelessly using a special tool.


Such tags have been used for years here in northern European supermarkets. Not sure how similar they really are though.



Disagree, the masses don't use this software, I know nobody who uses this. Plus, the technology behind it is already in WhatsApp.

Although it is a privacy based, (good for _some_ people) I don't see why the masses would use this if WhatsApp is there.


I'm not here to debate you on anecdotal data (I know 5 people off the top of my head who do use it).

It has a respectable 10,000,000+ installs on the google play store and ranks high on the apple store with 270,000+ reviews. Though not comparable with the likes of WhatsApp (which I personally use and prefer), I would not dismiss it as 'not' a mainstream option. We can agree to disagree for sure.


Also anecdotal evidence, but my contacts are gradually showing up in Signal - and I continue to recommend it to friends and colleagues.


I was pleasantly surprised that my therapist (60+ years old) is now using it with his clients because of the coronavirus.


WhatsApp hit two billion users last month.


> Plus, the technology behind it is already in WhatsApp.

Some of the tech is in WhatsApp, but it's misleading to imply that this means WhatsApp is a good replacement for Signal if you care about privacy.

One of WhatsApp's two co-founders left WhatsApp when he saw what Facebook was doing and has since been pumping a lot of money into Signal.


I think that's a really nice concept, and quite possibly a good time to bring this to our notice whenever most of us are home bound. Do you plan on adding more features in the features?


I spend most of my free time on this. New features are added multiple times a week :)


Drivers, travel agencies, stage lighting companies, industries that mostly depend on people transiting from one place to another. This has got to have a more widespread impact than anticipated since most of us are being actively recommended to stay indoors.


I would add BBC to that list.


What is your search engine of personal choice?


I have split up my browsing and search among multiple browsers, depending on the use case, and I use Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo and Startpage, mostly for having different perspectives as I found out that only using google limited the stuff I found. (Google serves Startpages different results than what they show themselves)


Qwant.com produces far better results than DDG in my experience.


and they have a nice lite search: https://lite.qwant.com/


Noticed for first while browsing private tabs in brave browser.


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