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0 pointsianai9y ago0 comments

Well no cure aside maybe not looking at a backlight. I really wish there were marketed displays without a backlight. There's got to be a way.

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Bartweiss9y ago

I've been wanting this for ages. And more simply, I want brightness controls that go all the way down to zero.

hrehhf9y ago

On my system, I can run this:

  # echo 100 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness

This sets the backlight brightness. I'm not sure what the units are, but it can go all the way to 0. If I shine a very bright light at the screen (like sunlight), it is readable at 0.

ianaiOP9y ago

Seems like there could be a Kickstarter. I'd want a high resolution external eink display as a secondary monitor. The refresh rate would be hell, but it'd be okay for text work.

GrumpyYoungMan9y ago

There's the Dasung Paperlike e-ink monitor:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e...

However, it's only 13.3" in size and, as you noted, it is limited by the refresh rate of e-ink.

Bartweiss9y ago

This is still pretty appealing - I could stand to put static or near-static text there. I'd probably want to add it to my current pair of monitors, though, instead of subbing one out.

ianaiOP9y ago

That's about what I'd expect it to run too. The poorly written marketing material kinda ruins my confidence though.

Bartweiss9y ago

I've been wanting something like this for ages. Even as a small-scale secondary monitor, it'd be great to toss static text like tickets or APIs onto an eink display.

anc849y ago

Oh yes! At least Kobo readers are Linux and you can SSH in. You could even install another distro I believe. Some ugly hack could be rendering the display content on your machine and just sent the image over.

https://github.com/koreader/koreader uses Lua so maybe one could add some bidirectional or at least PC->Reader flow of data.

edit: VNC! https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/660-Using_my_Kobo_eBook...

yomly9y ago

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e...

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Bartweiss9y ago

I've been wanting this for ages. And more simply, I want brightness controls that go all the way down to zero.

hrehhf9y ago

On my system, I can run this:

  # echo 100 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness

This sets the backlight brightness. I'm not sure what the units are, but it can go all the way to 0. If I shine a very bright light at the screen (like sunlight), it is readable at 0.

ianaiOP9y ago

Seems like there could be a Kickstarter. I'd want a high resolution external eink display as a secondary monitor. The refresh rate would be hell, but it'd be okay for text work.

GrumpyYoungMan9y ago

There's the Dasung Paperlike e-ink monitor:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e...

However, it's only 13.3" in size and, as you noted, it is limited by the refresh rate of e-ink.

Bartweiss9y ago

This is still pretty appealing - I could stand to put static or near-static text there. I'd probably want to add it to my current pair of monitors, though, instead of subbing one out.

ianaiOP9y ago

That's about what I'd expect it to run too. The poorly written marketing material kinda ruins my confidence though.

Bartweiss9y ago

I've been wanting something like this for ages. Even as a small-scale secondary monitor, it'd be great to toss static text like tickets or APIs onto an eink display.

anc849y ago

https://github.com/koreader/koreader uses Lua so maybe one could add some bidirectional or at least PC->Reader flow of data.

edit: VNC! https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/660-Using_my_Kobo_eBook...

yomly9y ago

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e...

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