I started on a RM2 and upgraded to a Pro when it came out.
I knew going in that it was not going to live up to the hype of the marketing around changing your life. But it has proven to be a very useful addition to work where the screen sharing enables me to have a shared whiteboard remotely that I can actually scribble on. The reading experience is also good with a decent sized screen. Being able to annotate books without feeling like you are desecrating a real book is a game changer.
To anyone from the Remarkable team is reading this: for a device priced at a premium, there sure are lots of corners that feel like they were cut.
1. Would it really have killed you to put a faster SoC on the device? Pressing the wake button to the screen responding can sometimes be 5 seconds. Opening a large PDF can take upwards of 30 seconds.
2. The backlight controls seem to be detached from real life use. The maximum setting produces enough light to be readable in a semi-low light environment(think dusk), but even one notch lower than that is useless. What is the point of having 5 levels of brightness if I only ever get to use 5 or 0
3. I would love to have palette controls. The display supports lots of color but all my writing tools only support 6 preset colors. There is a nice use case of them around paper games like variant Sudoku that require using color to keep track of the solve and having only a small preset color range is very limiting.
This laundry list only exists because the potential of this device is high. If none of these issues are fixed but they release a RMPro 2 with better battery like, I’d still buy it.
> Servers MUST NOT use elicitation to request sensitive information
For any LLM based flows to gain enough trust by the general public to handle flows that involve money, esp large sums of money, we need the equivalent of “pad lock on my browser means I’m secure” level of something easy to understand and teach everyone to see.
A point to add here on the scoping. This makes sense in a B2C world but for the B2B contracts, our customers specifically check that our scope clause includes all software systems that they are contracting for plus all the support systems that help make it, including your security program etc.
All our contracts are B2B, and B2B is where all my prior consulting experience was.
I am very fond of telling the story about the very significant security product company a colleague works at where they had a vendor that gave them a series of repeated Type 1s. I don't believe any of this matters.
Yeah I will be soon adding a sample results in the home page along with an onboarding screen. As you said it will help the user get an clear idea about the product.
Also you can try out the product for free when you signup.
Can we connect so I could get few insights from your use case.
It happened several years ago - when Conor was holding talks on Clubhouse. I had created an account with a few test notes and went back days later. The notes were not listed or linked anywhere. The person’s email or name was showing in the log but he was not even outed as an employee on linkedin at the time - so I originally thought someone has hacked my account or was accidentally given access to my notes. Then I asked the founder or the person and they said it was a new employee. I have screenshots somewhere but I don’t remember how i reached out to them - if it was a service chat, or email, or twitter, or clubhouse. I always check the network chatter on new sites I use - very enlightening about what they think of customers. A lot of times you see flags for things they want you or don’t want you to be, or what they want to upsell to you. Reactive sites put all kinds of logic in the front end where it doesn’t belong.
Thanks for elaborating! This is definitely not ok, and the response beyond unacceptable.
I've been an active user for a couple of years now and have substantial amount of information stored in Roam. I guess I should have known better than to have sensitive data stored in someone else's servers without encryption.
Time to explore Obsidian and see what the migration path looks like.
Hey, thanks for being an active Roam users for these years.
I want to clarify this (since you might not see the other replies in this thread)
Roam actually DID NOT READ THEIR DATA (we have always had the policy of never accessing user data without explicit user permission). She just misunderstood what she was looking at.
Goblin is even better, the backing AI model for example recognizes, and properly responds to (!), foreign language while the OP does not.
For example when I add the major task "Pannekoek bakken" ("Baking a pancake" in Dutch) and break it down into subtasks Goblin breaks down the task in Dutch.
OP's tool does realize what I want to do but responds in English which could be a bit of a problem for people who are not that foreign language savvy.
Fair enough! I can tweak this by adjusting the system messages for the AI, Neuro Tools uses Google Gemini's models that do have support for a wide variety of languages. Goblin Tools uses OpenAI from what I can tell.
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I can't edit my comment it seems. But I've pushed an update, if the AI detects a different language, it'll reply in that language. I tested with Dutch and German and seemed to work fine :)
I’m sure the airline can get a much sweeter deal if they show a high volume of rooms booked. Although the costs of an entire days worth of flights being cancelled because of a errant fire alarm seems like a high cost to pay, I’m sure they gamed the numbers out and it makes financial sense for them in the long run
I appreciate that Apple has their privacy practices highlighted in a easy to read card so that developers don’t get to hide it in legalease and a click away in a privacy policy.
The next step would be to actually prompt users about this, in the same way that you would get a prompt confirming that if you would like to download a large app when on mobile data. “It looks like you are trying to install the app Threads which reads the following information about you. Are you sure you would like to proceed?”
This would be a natural progressing of the “Ask not to track” dialog that they implemented awhile ago
or simply add a colored indicator next to the download button. If an app collects too much info, it shows a glowing red exclamation mark; if it collects nothing, it's a green smiley face.
I knew going in that it was not going to live up to the hype of the marketing around changing your life. But it has proven to be a very useful addition to work where the screen sharing enables me to have a shared whiteboard remotely that I can actually scribble on. The reading experience is also good with a decent sized screen. Being able to annotate books without feeling like you are desecrating a real book is a game changer.
To anyone from the Remarkable team is reading this: for a device priced at a premium, there sure are lots of corners that feel like they were cut.
1. Would it really have killed you to put a faster SoC on the device? Pressing the wake button to the screen responding can sometimes be 5 seconds. Opening a large PDF can take upwards of 30 seconds.
2. The backlight controls seem to be detached from real life use. The maximum setting produces enough light to be readable in a semi-low light environment(think dusk), but even one notch lower than that is useless. What is the point of having 5 levels of brightness if I only ever get to use 5 or 0
3. I would love to have palette controls. The display supports lots of color but all my writing tools only support 6 preset colors. There is a nice use case of them around paper games like variant Sudoku that require using color to keep track of the solve and having only a small preset color range is very limiting.
This laundry list only exists because the potential of this device is high. If none of these issues are fixed but they release a RMPro 2 with better battery like, I’d still buy it.