#pinenote — Public Fediverse posts

@dmacphee Very interesting, not the easiest to use but, good insight. I was hoping to see the #PineNote on that list to see how it compared to the other tablets.

In quite an aggressive bit of annoyance of my (fully functional) @Kobo Elipsa mostly collecting dust due to the #enshitification of the Kobo Firmware (requiring users to be logged in; working around that might put your data at risk of getting wiped at the next firmware update) ...

I took the plunge today and ordered a @pine64eu PineNote. At least that is a device which is properly hackable. Yes, I'm fully aware that the user experience will not be like a fully finished product. But that's perfectly fine - simply because it is hackable.

Simply a massive "F*** ***, #Kobo!" from me.

https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/

If there are anyone who really wants a fully working Kobo Elipsa 2E in good condition, reach out and we'll agree on a price for it. I have the original box for it as well. The hardware is great, it's the firmware which is really annoying me and I don't have the patience to hack on a completely new firmware for it.

#opensource #foss #hacking #koboelipsa2e #pine64 #PineNote

All I want is a #Linux environment in #kitty terminal on eInk screen.

Would PineNote be any good for that? Or something else?

#pinenote

I had no idea that Xournal++ had geometry tools. I discovered the compass and the speed square while doing some idle sketching for an upcoming coffee table build on the PineNote! This is the appropriate level of "CAD" for me at this stage of the build, graph paper with a protractor but super easy copy paste to visualize various combinations.

This is open hardware running free and open source software, I love this so much!

#Xournal #SketchBook #PineNote #OpenHardware #FOSS #Woodworking #CAD

My PineNote blog posts were linked to from the main body of a discussion thread on Hacker News but due to the consistent and prolific AI scraping it's barely a blip on my traffic. Remember when humans used to hug sites to death? In the old days this would absolutely stick out.

The good news is a human emailed me and asked me for my experience one year in and that was nice (which is also how I found out about the HN post). I'll share my response below until I get around to fleshing out a blog post from it:

I should absolutely do a write-up a year in. I'll give you the highlights:

• I lost my original PineNote and after a few months of trying to get it back, I ended up getting a replacement, which should say something all in itself.
• I wish the device was a little bit smaller and lighter, but I have gotten used to it.
• I use it as a single function device at a time, mostly writing or reading, very occasional computing.
• However, I on a month-long trip and I only brought along my work laptop and the PineNote instead of bringing a personal laptop. I can do all the personal computing that I need on the PineNote and my phone. See my setup here: https://shom.dev/posts/20250406_a-pinenote-only-5-day-weekend/
• I wish Pine64 would update their images with the kernel optimization created by the community member hrdl, they do link to it from their official docs.
• There is also an interesting project called QuillOS, which provides a nice interface to the whole system, but it's not ready for primetime on PineNote.

#PineNote #HackerNews #AIScrapers #AIBots

My #Pine64 #PineNote e-ink Linux tablet arrived!

I'll see in the coming weeks what I can do with it. I'll get #SuperSakura running on it at the least, and maybe I can contribute something else too.

Phoooh..... #PineNote ordered. A bit steep... but I must have it.

A high-quality e-ink tablet with open hardware and free community software, can probably run whatever Linux distro you throw at it, and thus can do anything a full Linux can do.

I'm going to put SuperSakura on it. And maybe read some books or w/e

@da5nsy I looked into the #PineNote, but it's been out of stock for a while in the EU store and I wasn't able to get it from the global one either. It's not cheap nor "finished" and it's meant as a Linux tablet, but I imagine that, with a keyboard, I could make it work for my use cases

@srijan @jiewawa Holy crap! This looks like it can be super useful! This could transform my #PineNote from something that just allows casual passive reading for fun to a device for producing real knowledge in my #Denote database.

Thank you!

#emacs

Restock❗
The #PineNote CE is back, along with the #Pinecil, PineTime, #PinePower desktop and GaN, as well as accessories and bundles
- Devices: https://pine64eu.com/product-category/devices/
- Accessories: https://pine64eu.com/product-category/device-accessories/
- Bundles: https://pine64eu.com/product-category/bundles/

@pine64 Looking forward to seeing the #PineNote!

Sharing a small winter vacation project:

Tooling and scripts for a #PineNote to display a selection of images whenever the device goes to sleep.

I only tested it on a Debian-based installation.

https://gitlab.com/DanVukelich/pinenote-suspend-gallery

I'm really enjoying this blackberry-style keyboard + trackpad for typing on my #pineNote. It beats the on-screen keyboard by a mile whenever I have to open a terminal or enter a password, and it's so small I can take it with me wherever my PN goes.

https://github.com/ZitaoTech/9981_BLE_USB_Keyboard_Pro

Thank you @pluralistic for making your ebooks DRM-free, making it an easy choice to purchase to put onto my #PineNote e-ink tablet for reading.

With the v25.12 release of postmarketos, the Pinenote support is in a pretty good place. Although the device isn't in community yet, I backport fixes from edge so you don't have to. I've packaged hrdl's sway config under device-pine64-pinenote-sway-hrdl for those wanting an opinionated setup right away. I'll be working on optimising existing postmarketos UIs for eink displays in preparation for v26.06.

Install instructions: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PineNote_(pine64-pinenote)

#pine64 #pinenote #postmarketos

Tuesday evening project: trying out the new #Arch Linux image for the #PineNote to try to build a distraction-free computing environment. Thesis: if it takes an hour to connect to wi-fi and another hour to connect it to a Bluetooth keyboard, I probably won’t use it to waste time scrolling. But I might use it to waste time formalizing math from a textbook!

@pine64 @danct12 @hadrianweb @pastelsolitude @genode @Logical_Error This is my first time hearing about QuillOS for the #PineNote . Where can I find more info an that?

Boo❗ 👻
Back in stock - the #Pinecil V2, #PineTime, #PineNote as well as bundles and accessories
-Devices: https://pine64eu.com/product-category/devices/
-Accessories: https://pine64eu.com/product-category/device-accessories/
-Bundles: https://pine64eu.com/product-category/bundles/