Unreleased reManager test | reMarkable | Page 1

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 5:59 PM

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sweet, building it for windows x86_64 now! Will drop a link shortly!

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lol ran out of disk space, sorry for the wait. Gotta rerun the build

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you'd think the 1TB on this laptop would be enough but alas

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nope and even spinning rust is too expensive now

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nah

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vellum lives in your home directory and persists after updates

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nice, under Utilities, there's now OS Manager that will let you install 3.25

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yep!

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oh wait

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you can just switch!

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ezpz

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although... you might want to install 3.25.1.1 to clear off any readmarkable remnents

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it will only update the standby

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to update both, you'd need to run the install now (Installing onto B), then reboot, then run the install again (which would install onto A)

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at what step?

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ah might have just been a weird reboot disconnect. Once it's booted, reconnect and see what it says

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once you boot into each freshly installed partition, make sure you disable auto-updates via the Maintenance page

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you'll have to do that once per partition

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🙌

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that's normal

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there's a built-in 60sec timeout in the hashtab generation script to let everything get loaded

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😂

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it's funny cause as a dev-y person, if I see a marketing page for a project I think "ewww just gimme the github"

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 8:52 PM

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I know a lot of people love YT/video guides, but it always annoys me how they can very easily become outdated

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also a little self-promo if you wanna give it a try
https://vellum.delivery/#/package/floating-toolbar

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:06 PM

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floating https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1rvj91d/new_update_for_the_floating_toolbar/

r/RemarkableTablet

New update for the floating toolbar!

Now with per-pen, thickness, and colour options, a starter prompt that links to the github, and separating out colours…

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:11 PM

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think replacement for the pen menu, the erase/selection/undo/redo buttons, and an entirely separate floating menu for layers

and it can let you go ham xD
or you can keep it to the 3 tools you might use

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biggest QoL improvement as a user since I've owned mine
especially on the Pro, since you have access to all the colour tools, it should be easier to switch between them imo

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oh okay, works
but you have never, ONCE, written on the tablet that was sold on it's writing? 🥴

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:35 PM

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I vaguely remember it

But I don't remember the twitter ad part

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:36 PM

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curious how you end up liking Koreader on it vs the scribe

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:36 PM

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Colour content then?

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:37 PM

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cause based on the reviews I've seen, the scribe is very much reader-first and rM is very much writer-first

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I mean, it's real clear rM has spent no time on the reader software since like 2017

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:38 PM

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Honestly speaking, after the dev team AMA on reddit, any hopes of proper reader(and mind you, we are only talking epub support, which is already ass), support is very very low from rM's side

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:38 PM

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yeah same

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:39 PM

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But tbh
For my kind of reading, it works fine

And I especially like the chrome article-to-epub extension to read on the Move

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:39 PM

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I do exclusively use rMs to e-read

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:40 PM

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Was the supernote ever in your radar

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:40 PM

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I doubt it (re: pinenote)

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:42 PM

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They are even more writer focused

But one minor advantage they have had is native kindle support, as in, it runs android, so go crazy on apps

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But I have found it kinda sketch how old the android versions tend to be

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I genuinely wanna see the ad you saw on twitter

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Cause I was never once "sold on" rM about their reader capabilities

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:45 PM

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what a time to be alive

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non-android, there aren't a lot of options. Someone in this discord has a pine note I think

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:49 PM

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Which is funny cause rM has historically overestimated the battery life

The 2 weeks are literally counted as 1hr per day for 10 days(business basically)

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But rM drains much faster when you use it for what its sold for

Writing

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:51 PM

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nah

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:51 PM

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E readers are almost always static per page and can basically fall asleep

While the rM is constantly updating when you write

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:52 PM

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I mean, any stylus layer will burn battery. I don't think it's much different between EMR and active

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:52 PM

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Only the active stylus hardware

But the bigger hog is the screen

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:52 PM

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biggest hog is the CPU IMO

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hard to tell cause they're awake at the same time 😂

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:53 PM

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surreal spade biggest hog is the CPU IMO

What of the FPGA, I wonder

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:53 PM

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rmpp is chock full of magnets

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I'm not sure about static, the screen is just a TFT backplane like any other display, but it operates are pretty high voltage so it might induce some static

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 9:55 PM

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48v between the lowest and highest voltage if I recall correctly

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 9:58 PM

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I don't know all that much about USI

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other than I like how slow the nibs wear 😂

teal pivot Mar 19, 2026, 10:09 PM

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I’m curious, after you got the rmpp and didn’t like it did you consider just returning it, since they have a decently long return period?

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:11 PM

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ah yep

teal pivot Mar 19, 2026, 10:11 PM

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Ahh

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 10:12 PM

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The minor irony that to avoid amazon, you bought from amazon

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Have any distro in mind?

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:17 PM

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🤔 are there non-systemd distros?

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(your rM runs systemd)

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 10:18 PM

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I do wonder what inclined you to the "don't go for anything systemd"

Cause some of the linux circle-jerks are knees deep in their own schtick

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:19 PM

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wat

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systemd isn't spyware, it's an init system

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remarkable sends very little interesting telemetry

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 10:20 PM

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~~you might like to talk to GNU/Chud guy on the matrix~~

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:20 PM

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and honestly, I like systemd. resolved can fuck right off though

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 10:20 PM

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surreal spade remarkable sends very little interesting telemetry

"mm yes, user used this pen more often"

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:23 PM

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ezpz

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 10:23 PM

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Huh??

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:24 PM

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I haven't observed an rM tablet connecting to any wifi I didn't expressly press the Connect button for

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I don't assume about what telemetry it sends out, I have those packet captures.

unborn geyser Mar 19, 2026, 10:28 PM

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surreal spade 🤔 are there non-systemd distros?

Artix (arch without systemd), alpine, etc

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:28 PM

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I can't find any autoconnect paths in xochitl either

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:29 PM

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unborn geyser Artix (arch without systemd), alpine, etc

alpine is hardly a desktop distro 😂

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that's fucking exhausting

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 10:30 PM

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This level of paranoia is better off in my sci fi dystopia novel thankyouverymuch

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:30 PM

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someone here is

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I'll just point out that you ran an .exe a stranger on the internet gave you. Chip-level exploits are unnessesary

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 10:32 PM

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To that extent is....

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I will agree there is a lot of exploitation on the internet and social media and all

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But that's a different scale

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Have you, at least once, entered a sensitive info on that computer

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Cause if so....

surreal spade Mar 19, 2026, 10:33 PM

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anywho, I'm done here. ✌️

spark shoal Mar 19, 2026, 10:33 PM

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Then what of say network malware

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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I need to sleep, so I'll also be off

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