Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club
looking into dasung paperlike monitors, and WOW
the 25" model costs 1,748$ and you have to decide if you want the mac or windows version.
like, you can't give me both firmwares or spend an extra 5$ to put in two interface chips or something?
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.cluband I was planning on using it on two machines: mac and windows.
and it doesn't work on linux, which is surprising in 2026
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Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
as much as i hate apple, they haven't locked down display technologies since they transitioned to intel at the latest
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you can supposedly VESA mount the 13" model too... except the VESA mount is a magnet. It doesn't actually secure the QUITE EXPENSIVE display, which is scary, considering this thing requires at least 2 cables (power + HDMI/USB-C)
maybe if those were magnetic too and they made sure the magnets were weaker than the VESA mount
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i'd steer far clear from this, because that to me screams "you will be forced to install shady software to make this display work"
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club@fcbsd doesn't. apparently they have their own video protocol, you don't just plug in a standard HDMI source, you need to run their special client software on the PC to talk to it
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubmy understanding is that they are not using any standard video protocol, they have a custom agent running on the PC/mac, which sends some kind of partial updates to the epaper display.
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Emelia/Emi
becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt@foone *VESA mount. Visa is the credit card processor and puritanical leech on society.
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubthough the 10" 60hz model also works with "some android phones", and there doesn't seem to be a client for that, so I think maybe they support plain USB-C video there?
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Christian Berger DECT 2763
casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de@foone I don't think there's a "plain USB-C video" standard. There are lots of ways to transmit video over USB-C.
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club@casandro right, that's presumably why they say "some" android phones
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Brian Campbell
unlambda@hachyderm.io@foone this reminds me of one of a multimedia system that I worked on out of college. it had versions on mac and windows. it had a custom scripting language. the custom scripting language was turing complete on the mac, but not on windows. they didn't actually share an implementation; they had just forked the codebase at some point and diverged, and functions were re-entrant on the mac so you could do loops, but not on windows
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/Cinny 
Games That I Missed
GamesMissed@mastodon.social@foone Modos (https://www.modos.tech/) is taking orders for their 13“ e-Ink monitor at the moment. It's a local company I've been following for years. It looks to have better compatibility than the Dasung, and is cheaper (although still pricy).
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club@GamesMissed I'm aware of those, but I need a display now, not next year, so sadly not an option for me
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Christian Berger DECT 2763
casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de@charlotte @foone Well there's probably at least 4 different things "external display support" via USB could mean, and they are completely different and incompatible.
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