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Lilbits: Bigme’s HiBreak E Ink phone (without the phone), India’s mix & match laptop refurbishers, and 104 percent tariffs on Chinese imports

A number of things happened after the Trump administration announced a set of global tariffs last week. Global stock markets have tanked. Some device makers have temporarily paused sales of certain devices or delayed plans to start taking orders of others. And while some countries that have been hit hard by tariffs are trying to arrange meetings with the Trump administration to negotiate […]

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#eink pressure testing for both typing(on a folio keyboard and writing and drawing with nearly all tools, text styles, and colors in a single page. Taking time to absorb them each in a quiet place. my garage... :)

@kiwix I wonder if it makes sense to have a kiwix branded ereader (eink? etc...), where it's designed specifically to work well with a full dump of wikipedia?

Would an SD card slot be enough or would it make more sense cost wise to have an nvme drive onboard perhaps?

Might be popular with the more survialist crowd... or people on boats in remote areas. Or in another planet somehow.

Maybe the front of the reader says "Don' Panic!" lol

Raw frame from Blade Runner and how it looks on my color e-ink "very slow movie player" frame. This thing is impossible to photograph because of how reflective the glass is but it looks amazing in person. The color e-ink really looks so cool / very different from a grid of backlit pixels. Wish I could capture it better!