Bigme inkNote Color

Wonderful piece of hardware but I would act like a spoiled child if I gave in to the temptation to buy it

Bigme inkNote Color, World’s First Color E-Ink Tablet w/ Dual Cameras

Android 11, Voice Control System & 8MP Camera. Bigme inkNote Color offers close-to-paper writing & reading experience and boosts your productivity.

* Super Early Bird Price from $399

* Limited seats. First come, First served.

Epson EcoTank, Driverless and Linux

A few days ago I bought inks for my HP Color LaserJet Pro M377dw. They were quite costly, so I looked around other manufacturers that in the past were Linux-friendly. I ended up on an Epson multifunction printer that seems as good as mine but with inks that cost by far a lot less:

EcoTank ET-5170 | Epson Italia

The only issue is that they cite the usual proprietary operative systems.

Can I assume that given that MacOS uses CUPS the very same printing of Linux any printer labelled as MacOS X compatible will work with Linux? Has the promise of Driverless Printing being fulfilled? Last time I tried the answer was a big yes, but I would like to be sure.

 

Mac Studio: 4x more efficient but 4x more costly

Mac Studio is 4x more efficient than my new AMD PC” wrote Jeff Geerling

Ok, but the Mac Studio “is only slightly more expensive”.

“Only” more than four times the cost.

With the money I save I could run the “hot and inefficient” AMD machine for more than four years at full steam.

The cheapest MAC pro is 2349€. He’s comparing it to a AMD Ryzen 5 5600x PC build. I can find one for 549€ on Next. Ok, it has only 8Gb, the Mac 32. But switching the Pc to 16gb costs only 39€.

So nice hardware dear Apple, I will stick to AMD for now.