For people who cannot visit the website (hug of death), a copy is hosted here: https://github.com/everydayanchovies/eink-vnc

This is great, looks totally usable.

I've pursued that eInk life style for about a decade now :) My best setup is with a Dasung Paperlike, but in practice the ergonomics keeps me from using it often (too many things to carry outside and setup). What I hope to see one day is a Linux friendly laptop with an eInk display (frontlit for extra bonus [1]). I wouldn't use it as a replacement, but for quickly grabbing when spending a few hours outside. Maybe Framework or MNT Reform could do it?

[1] the Dasung has multiple settings for the backlight and it's an absolute necessity for using it indoors.

EDIT: backlit -> frontlit, silly me.

ADD: PineNote is also promising as it support BLE and thus could be used with remote keyboard/mouse.

Wow, this is great! I've been hoping for eInk with good refresh for years, and seeing it in action in your demo is very cool.

> The screen can refresh up to 30 times per second, this will degrade the eInk display rapidly. Do not use with fast changing content like videos.

Have you noticed the degraded display in your Kobo? I imagine it's not uniform across all pixels, since editing would mostly be localized to your cursor area (though scrolling and other actions would be wider). I'd also be interested in hearing what the timeline looked like for the quality drop, since it sounds like it's a function of the total number refreshes for each pixel.

A comment in the video says that the framerate is being held back primarily by network latency. Would something like mosh, which immediately updates local state based on how it thinks your input will change the state (and then applies any necessary corrections once the network round trip happens) help here? I guess it would only apply to text-based sessions, but it sounds like there's already a recommendation against using it for video content.

One of these days I'm gonna make something this cool I can show HN.

An interesting test case would be the aalib demo, bb:

https://sarata.com/manpages/bb.1.html

Here videoed off an emissive display: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WubDqdV2r9k

And what seems to be a direct screen capture: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JFFJYJ6QkME

I'm also curious as to what display damage high-speed refresh causes, and what reasonable guidelines at avoiding this might be. I have an Onyx BOOX Max Lumi, whose display is excellent, and do very occasionally watch video. (More often I'll simply play the audio via mpv in Termux.)

Exactly what I've been wanting to do, use it as a display for emacs with a bluetooth keyboard. Don't mind if it has to pass through my laptop. Does anyone know how to do something similar with the reMarkable 2?

What are the current market options for e-ink /displays/devices that you could program on/ that you know of and (don't?) recommend ?

    - hisense q5 tablet
      - hdmi input
      - https://www.cect-shop.com/en/hisense-q5.html
      - 400 eur
      - android as usb display:
        - https://superdisplay.app/
    - waveshare
      - https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/epaper-1.htm?___SID=U&dir=desc&mode=list&order=price
      - pure hdmi, usb powered
      - 400-600eur
      - papertty
        - python library
        - streams terminal or vnc to raspberry pi connected SPI waveshare monitor