Honestly? Not fantastic. I run it with the wifi and LTE on, some backlight, GPS on, and I get two solid days out of it. For e-ink, I would expect more. Still… Quite nice for what I paid. Much more useful than a pure e-reader, even just for ease of getting content into it, you know?
I miss the Yotaphone days.
Throwing out some love for the Bigme B7.
It’s my e-reader, my maps, my podcasts, and I can even knock out a reply to a telegram and then get back to my book without pulling out my (stupidly small) phone.
I have an old as eff Kobo, and it’s a marginally better e-reader, but just grabbing an Epub off the net, off nextcloud, or even reading a decent sized article… Yeah, love my B7.
Hi! I’m in my 40’s. My dad is ten years passed, and my oldest brother died in a total freak accident. Before I was born. One of the last things my Dad said was “I’ll say hi to your brother for you.” My brother died right before Thanksgiving. We never celebrated Thanksgiving, not for my whole life. My mom still gets weepy at Thanksgiving almost 50 years later. This was an accidental death. I don’t think my parents would have survived a suicide. I had a co-worker at my last job, hadn’t seen him in maybe five years, we never hung out, random texts every now and then, not a part of my life. He just killed himself in November. I have spent the last month asking myself if I could have done something, if I had only known…
Suicide affects people you don’t even know! Hell, I found my co-worker irritating and immature, but I sincerely wish he had called or said something, I would never wish that level of despair on someone.
I already have an e-ink second screen that sits on the back of an iPhone… 4? 5? It’s collecting dust in a drawer, but I swear this is a recycle of an old project. It’s already been done!
Also, I have an old Yotaphone.
I run substreamer and tailscale to access my home navidrome. Works like a charm.
I like your tiles. I even bought a t-shirt with one on it!
I have a docker compose immich that I somehow managed to kill fourteen minutes after convincing my wife to switch to it.
Calgary Shawarma. I don’t know his name, but my grandfather was sick and I was stuck at work (working on a phone line repair at the auto shop next door.) Dead of winter, miserable cold. Then my mom calls: Grandpa died. Shawarma guy overheard this, I’m sitting in my van crying. Knock on my window. Guy hands me a Shawarma. “Boss, you should come in to my shop, have some food, get warm. No charge.” He sat and listened to my grandpa stories until I had it together and could go back to finish my job.
Seriously, total stranger, and he was there for me on one of my worst days, and I’ll never forget.
I’m a bit farther along, but it’s all been trial and error (and error, and error…) So, commenting because I would also like some of this info. My DNS is a disaster! Still using IPs to access my VMs, mostly.
See, now I’m curious if it worked… Hey, if it worked and you don’t see this, please let me know!
Get one of those kid’s seats for the bike, get a large stuffed… Tiger? Yeah, Tiger. Put the hat on the Tiger, strap the Tiger into the kid’s seat. Nobody will mock the Tiger for not wearing a helmet.
My loops are in my pocket all the time and my tinnitus has gone away since I started wearing them.
I have an original framework. I swapped the RAM and SSD in seconds. The add-on ports make changing functions trivial. I swap my HDMI to a wired Ethernet port on the regular, and the expansion cards actually work through a dock, too. I really like it. It does throw the odd “USB port has malfunctioned” error from time to time, but it’s quite rare.
Back when I first started with NextCloud, it was pretty unresponsive on the web front end for my ebook collection, which was a ton of small files. It’s gotten a whole lot better in the last year or so. Now, I don’t worry about it. This is also with a very badly set up copy. I’m sure that a proper install would work much better, too.
I have a couple of friends with nextcloud, and I have nextcloud too. Low tech ish? But we just host our files on Nextcloud and then copy backups to the other machines every now and then.
My NC uses about 6gb of RAM, and it is really badly optimized, since it’s been running forever and isn’t a container, or even a server deploy. (It’s a snap running in desktop Ubuntu since 2016.)
Anyone could do better, I just can’t be bothered.
My buddy has his running on 1.5GB of RAM in a container.
I also host a bunch of other stuff. Navidrome and freshrss get the most use, other than Nextcloud. Immich, searx-ng, jellyfin, guacamole.
No Sudo apt update. sudo dnf upgrade -y && sudo flatpak upgrade -y
…but don’t stop!
And… Comedy!
I had a few really annoying problems with the Bigme when I first got it, but two updates later and it’s really solid.