There are some E-ink fans in the urbit community (disclaimer I work on this stuff) and it really lets you fully extend the retropunk feel.
I’ve got my Urbit running on a native planet hardware box (https://martiancomputing.substack.com/p/product-review-nativ...) plugged into my router’s switch that I can access from anywhere. The UI for groups also looks good on e-ink (mostly white and black, nice design) one of the devs has an e-ink phone that shows it off. It’s cool to really own the entire stack.
I had the original remarkable tablet mentioned in the post and it was really cool (someone was also using it as a browser to access urbit back then), the new tablet looks better too.
There was someone at the first urbit assembly (probably here on HN) working on cool new e-ink style tech that had some advantages without having to engage with all the patent nonsense and vendor lock-in that has plagued (imo seriously stalled) e-ink as a technology.
This is the first time I'm hearing about Urbit and, having spent the past 5-10 minutes browsing their website(s), I still haven't been able to figure out what it is exactly. Could you explain? And what do you use it for?
Hopefully that’s helpful. It’s a little outdated now though. We’re doing free hosting for now at tlon.io to help the network grow (so it’s easy to check it out).
I’ve got my Urbit running on a native planet hardware box (https://martiancomputing.substack.com/p/product-review-nativ...) plugged into my router’s switch that I can access from anywhere. The UI for groups also looks good on e-ink (mostly white and black, nice design) one of the devs has an e-ink phone that shows it off. It’s cool to really own the entire stack.
I had the original remarkable tablet mentioned in the post and it was really cool (someone was also using it as a browser to access urbit back then), the new tablet looks better too.
There was someone at the first urbit assembly (probably here on HN) working on cool new e-ink style tech that had some advantages without having to engage with all the patent nonsense and vendor lock-in that has plagued (imo seriously stalled) e-ink as a technology.