Ask HN: E-ink tablet for someone unable to view bright/moving screens
tl;dr I'm looking for an e-ink / ePaper tablet
My wife has developed severe vertigo. During attacks she is unable to move, eat, or watch screens that are bright or moving. If she does, she vomits multiple times.
I'm wondering if an e-ink tablet would help keep her occupied during these bouts.
Basic functionality would be to browse the web, preferably with something that includes ublock origin and is capable of rendering most popular sites. Maybe some additional things like Sudoku or similar slow moving games.
Does anyone know of an e-ink based tablet that fits those requirements?
(I'm trying my best to help her, but there's very little I can do that actually helps, and this feels like I'm doing something.)
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It's not a tablet, but it could be connected to a Raspberry Pi.
I'd also suggest an ordinary laptop with the display set to grayscale, BUT... the script I was using to put my laptop in grayscale isn't working anymore. and I don't know why. That's probably something I should follow up on.
(My computer is using picom with the glx backend as its compositor. Anyway, before, I could just switch everything to grayscale if I wanted. I found out it wasn't working two weeks ago but I've been too busy to find a fix).
Now some hacker is gonna respond complaining about Onyx not respecting some GNU license or other meaningless stuff, but the fact remains that they are cutting edge in eInk. Expensive though.
If you want something cheap, how about a Kindle? With the shadow libraries she can get any book in the world to read, and as of 2023 the Kindle web browser is actually usable, so that she can browse the web and check her e-mail.
Please clarify what you mean by "not respecting some GNU license or other meaningless stuff" ? What exactly is meaningless?
Please also explain what you think "they are cutting edge in eInk" is based on. Thanks.
I was helping a fellow person with a direct answer to a direct question, not inviting you to a hackers debate.
I'll have to look up why later. I think it's just a later version of the script I was using earlier.
I don't know if it'll help, but it's something you could try once or twice and see.
I also checked to see if there was a windows version of the script, and found this: [1]. Also [2]. Which may be slightly more useful.
There are larger e-ink monitors but they're all expensive.
Finally: Back when I had a kindle-style kindle and not a kindle fire tablet, it had a web browser built in. I have no idea about the current functionality on up to date ones.
[0]: https://github.com/bubbleguuum/toggle-monitor-grayscale
[1]: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disable-enable-grayscale-...
[2]: https://www.technipages.com/enable-greyscale-mode-for-window...
Alternative suggestion: Might podcasts/radio be something that works?
Hope she’ll get better soon!