Any first-hand experiences with the Nxtpaper devices? There's a lot of press coverage of the release official material, especially on the 14 inch model, but few actual reviews. Availability or even infos on availability is an issue, at least in Europe as well.
I just ordered the nxtpaper 11 arrives next week so will post back later.
I was torn between the HannsNote2 and Nxtpaper 11 but the battery life for the HannsNote2 is apparently less than 3 hours which I think is not going to cut it for a device which is meant to take me away from my phone
I ordered the nxtpaper from TechInn - I think they ship global
For anyone that was interested my Nxtpaper 11 finally arrived.
I am annoyed because I realised the Nxtpaper 11 is available on amazon.de the product listing was just buried because it hadn't bubbled up the search and its name isn't great for search.
Have only used it a few hours so some initial thoughts:
- this is my first ever real tablet but its heavier than I thought, its a bit awkward to read one handed especially without anything to grip, I might get one of those hand bands to get a lightweight grip
- the tablet is noticeably slow, you can see some slight frame choppiness when scrolling in Substack for example, but obviously way better than an eink reader
- the Nxtvision settings for reading mode and eye comfort mode are quite nice. Images and figures in documents look pleasingly "flat"
- the resolution is noticeably low, I do notice the DPI is not that crisp when reading PDFs
- I like the matte screen texture it is quite pleasing
- reading code on it via Github was quite fun/pleasant
All things considered for 250 Euros its probably worth a try if you're not too fussy. I can live with the shortcomings, this is a sufficiently niche space that it'll take a while for the perfect product to drop out.
I'd love to get my hands on a Hannsnote 2 to compare
I’m very close to getting a HannsNote 2. The battery life is disappointing, but it is very thin (maybe unnecessarily so). It’s no hardship to carry around a battery in a bag.
I have a crazy idea about VNC or SSH in which case a host laptop might not be very far away anyway.
The HannsNote2 is such an interesting piece of tech I am extremely interested it's one of those situations where its just one or two features away from being a killer product IMO.
Having a back/frontlight, bigger battery and faster CPU could turn it into the ultimate tablet for what I'm looking for.
I can settle for weaker CPU, I'd need to try it in person to test whether I can live without a light (hard to know just how much ambient light you need to use it indoors at night comfortably) but the battery I think is too short especially if you factor in natural degradation too. For me it means I'll always be worried about charging it or tethered to a cable and spontaneous usage always requires diligent charging. Stuff like train journeys and plane rides are all then also dependent on the power bank
I planned to use the tablet to connect to a tmux session and mirror a shell session on my laptop. I could then type on the laptop but use the RLCD display.
Not a crazy idea, but might look a little weird.
I’ve had a reMarkable 1 for a few years, and even had fun hacking it [0] but ultimately it’s too restrictive and slow for what I ended up using for, which was reading and annotating PDFs away from my desk.
I believe the HannsNote can serve as a monitor as its running android or am I mistaken? What's the benefit of tmux over it behaving as a regular monitor?
MKBHD did a review of a TCL phone with an NXTPAPER display and the screen looks like just a normal LCD with a matte screen protector. It has some extra layers physically to limit the amount of blue light, but it 100% looked like any other phone screen with a "paper-like" screen protector on top. The only other thing were the screen modes that would wash out colors (partially or completely) to imitate the "paper look", but it's still pretty much glowing like any other regular display
There are surprisingly few reviews of any nxtpaper devices outdoors. Chalid Raqami did a comparison with two generations of eink displays, stating that the nxtpaper 10s appears hard to read and washed out outdoors but the accompanying video clip hardly demonstrates that.
I loved Skitch as well and this is a neat app. I wish there was some way of saving a sketch (maybe in LocalStorage) and edit it later (e.g. replacing with new screenshot but keep the markers). I can't remember if Skitch could do it, I use Figma for this today (but it comes with a huge overhead).
Documentation of processes with annotations. There's lots of steps, each step with a screenshot and ~10 annotations and if steps change, I need to recreate from scratch. Doable, but also lots of manual work.
Yes, exalidraw or tldraw are drop-in replacements for Figma that make it save and easy to share, but they are general purpose tools, I prefer single-purpose tools with limited features.
Thanks for bringing llmprices.dev to my attention. I have also a comparison page for models hosted on OpenRouter (https://minthemiddle.github.io/openrouter-model-comparison/), I do comparison via regex (so "claude-3-haiku(?!:beta)|flash" will show you haiku, but not haiku-beta vs flash.
I wish that OpenRouter would also expose the amount of output tokens via API as this is also an important criteria.
Does anyone have successfully worked with Non-English text with FTS5 in Sqlite? I could not find any reference for German, e.g. and the default stemming does not seem to work properly (given some short tests).
> Does anyone have successfully worked with Non-English text with FTS5 in Sqlite? I could not find any reference for German, e.g.
We use it in the Fossil SCM project and users have reported success with Chinese and Russian, so it presumably works fine with any European/Germanic language.
> and the default stemming does not seem to work properly (given some short tests).
The Porter Stemmer is documented as only being useful for English.
It has pretty much the same support for other languages as most text mining tools and Elasticsearch via the snowball stemmer: https://github.com/abiliojr/fts5-snowball
Should work well for German, I’m using it with Nordic languages.
I used Hackmd in the past to share the draft of my book (1) and liked that people don't need to have an account to comment. Google Docs was no option as no markdown support and account required. The process worked well but I found Hackmd too expensive for just getting feedback. Stash looks promising for this use case.
(1) Written fully in Markdown in Obsidian at this point. I moved to Asciidoc since because of formatting. The early draft is still available on Hackmd though. Details in my bio.
If you are using Obsidian, Smart Connections in v2 (1) does also support local embeddings and shows related notes based on semantic similarity.
It's not super great on bi/multi-lingual vaults (DE + EN in my case), but it's improving rapidly and might soon support embedding models that cater for these cases as well.
