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Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding) (liliputing.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Too bad the front isn't a screen too. It would be pretty awesome to open a book and automatically slave the front screen to the book's cover.

Also strange that the dev didn't enable wifi. That's just strange. It's running an esp32, it has a wifi chip and getting it to connect is incredibly easy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Probably don't want the burden of keeping the firmware up-to-date with the latest security fixes, and miminizes the risk of a security exploit if that door isn't opened.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We really need FLOSS ebook readers

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pretty cool. I tried to google it, and I couldn't actually find the source for it. Just a bunch of articles about it and a reddit thread.

    I'm curious what it's written in

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Have you seen the resolution? It's crappy.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I haven't. More than anything I'm supporting the idea of something like this. Little clamshell ereader that's not tied to a company? Hell yeah. Version 0.01 here might not be what I'm lusting after, but it's that much closer to Version 2.0.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I guess I'm too much of a "if you're gonna do something, then do it right the first time" kinda person. I've learned from (too much) experience that compromises on quality too often just wind up being wasted money.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Well the problem here is that there isn't a company that have money and so they can't do a very good product, when the project will gain money they can do a V2 with better specs and in general they will know better how build it, this prosuct is pre-launch and in general you have to see those as betas not a end product.

    Also, e-ink displays cost more than my balls

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pine64 tried that with their PineNote, which hardware wise seems excellent. But it ended up being so expensive that sales were abmyssal and subsequently there was also little developer take up and general community excitement to make something cool out of it on the software side.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, that's pretty common. Final cost will always matter, but the product still has to be worth it. Many companies have a history of not making the best balance calls, however.

    One thing I've learned never to scrimp too much on, however, is anything i directly interact with. Displays are especially important for the health of your eyes - especially with as much time as most people spend looking at them nowadays. As such, I can't really get behind this product.

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