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On the contrary, reMarkable's cloud and associated sync functionality is praised regularly in the unofficial subreddit, as is the access Support has when people accidentally overwrite or otherwise delete notes.

I fully understand why some people would prefer to self-host their documents, but to link your own work whilst labelling reMarkable's as "crap" is somewhat disingenuous

I'm not sure what the "ereader app" is that you refer to. reMarkables come with exactly one app "xochitl" that handles all user interaction. Sure, they let you access PDFs to annotate - but again the primary use case isn't to read them. ePub files are consciously converted into PDFs to support that premise.

KOreader, whilst an excellent reading app, doesn't support annotations. So it's not obvious why reMarkable would consider that an enhancement given the primary device purpose.

My car doesn't have space to walk around, nor refrigerators. That's why I bought it. Same with reMarkable devices. I buy and use them for the content creation functionality. I have a Kindle for the times when I want to swap to "consumer mode"

reMarkable software has its faults, but I keep coming back to them for the best-in-class hardware, developer-friendly platform, which itself spawned an active developer community. Could it be an easier platform to develop on? Sure. But that hasn't stopped a huge number of supported mods being made available

My car has four wheels, that doesn't make it a good ice-cream van

The rm2 is still receiving software updates. The fact that this would have been impossible on more closed tablets, or indeed most mobile phones should show reMarkable in a positive light surely?

All that happened is they stopped selling it. Source: https://remarkable.com/products/remarkable-2

Caveat: reMarkable have not said they will supply spare parts but this should be on their radar

I see the benefits over paper as:

- Search. Still in beta, but you can now search handwritten notes. Seems to work well even with my scrawl.

- Integrations. Just "send to Slack" for now but rumours from YouTuber Kit Betts that more are coming.

- Working at night. The backlight, whilst lacking in temperature control, is handy at night or when ambient lighting is poor.

- Backups. Annoying it's a paid subscription, but I consider it more like insurance against data loss at $3 per month.

I've got the Pro and, whilst a little to heavy for my liking, charging the marker is a no-brainer - it just attaches to the side for storage and charges wirelessly. Faster would always be appreciated of course.

Curious about your last statement as I find the writing feel best in class. Having tried a couple of others, admittedly a few years ago, the Pro felt the most natural to write on.

I'll admit I haven't gone spelunking down the specialist laptop manuafacturer sites, but on the surface it seems to be not an unrealistic claim.

[1] https://store.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/store/laptop/?page=1&... [2] https://www.box.co.uk/82TD000WUK-Lenovo-Legion-7-Intel-Core-...

The vast majority of the cars on our roads in the UK are still manual, but the tide is changing and not just with the introduction of EVs. There exists a legal quirk whereby you're not licensed to drive a manual car if you've passed your driving test in an automatic. Until that legislation is updated, I expect there to remain a strong demand for manual transmissions amongst learner and new drivers.

Personally, I'm of an age where simplicity and convenience are valued more in my life. Parallels include choosing Apple devices where I'd previously been all-in on Windows, Linux and Android; consoles over gaming PCs; and I'd also include home automation despite the initial set-up. Both our family cars are currently (non-EV for now) automatics and I can't see myself or my partner ever voluntarily going back to manual cars. I can push a single button to start, select drive and go. Even the handbrake is automatic.

Anecdotally, my social group is very much of the same mindset. Increased traffic on our small island has all but removed any romantic idealism around driving a sporty manual car on an open road. Now that driving here is more of a chore than a pleasure, anything that helps ease the burden is going to become the default.

The developer provides some insight into why it's free here [1]. To save you the click, they consider it a hobby project and decided the work to productise it is too great.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/s4uvpr/shottr_the_...

Amazon don't have to pay 30% for every transaction I make through the Amazon app on my iPhone. Same with eBay. Yes, I know Apple class these as different categories, but when push comes to shove what's the real difference here?

Epic are providing electronic assets that they have paid in-house artists to create and want to distribute in exchange for their in-game currency (V-Bucks). Why should Apple cream 30% off the top of that revenue?

Other than the electronic distribution, Apple has no fixed or variable costs relating to these in-game assets.

I fully agree Apple should take a cut of Fortnite being a reviewed, and therefore trusted, app on their store. I find it hard to justify the ongoing 30% cut of additional assets that bear no discernable cost.

I built a full-on remote hacking utility that got to the point where it would download the remote victim's RAM, upload the infamous laugh sound, play it, then restore the RAM so the victim was - usually - back to before they got freaked out.

A small group of us built a multi-screen text scrolling and image display sequencing tool for the various school open days. I still recall the nervous look on the teacher's face as we deconstructed the computer lab to get all the Microvitec Cub's lined up! Those were fun times.

Whilst I can understand the argument for the latter being similar to "on purpose", it will never stop sounding wrong to my British ears.