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diff --git a/2021/talks/dashboard.md b/2021/talks/dashboard.md index 8ceacc4b..53572fff 100644 --- a/2021/talks/dashboard.md +++ b/2021/talks/dashboard.md @@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ # Productivity Dashboards with Emacs and Kindle Mehmet Tekman + + +[[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/dashboard-schedule)" raw="yes"]] + +[[!table header="no" class="speaker-details" data=""" +Name pronunciation: | Meh-met Teck-man +Pronouns: | He/him +Preferred contact info: | @mtekman:matrix.org +Support: | <https://liberapay.com/mtekman/donate> +"""]] + +<https://gitlab.com/mtekman/kindle-sync> + Since 2008, Amazon have released a new Kindle device every year, supplanting each generation with a newer model that boasts highly promoted incremental features which greatly devalues the price of @@ -39,7 +52,57 @@ In this talk, we show how to configure multiple Kindles with any desired custom content, following any daily/weekly schedule, all easily managed from Emacs within a single Org-Mode file. +# Discussion + +- Q1: I know almost nothing about this stuff so please forgive my + ignorance (Actually, I did I dip a toe into some basic jail + breakage a few years ago and was delighted/intimidated to find a + capable community on mobilereads, as you mentioned; I was living + cheaply at the time, and having KUAL and KO and kterm around + improved my QOL considerably.) As for your talk, I enjoyed it very + much. I was wondering if you'd given any thought to possible + real-world applications for your dashboards. Just spitballing a + bit, a few possibilities came to mind, like perhaps disseminating + information on a work floor or lab setting where cable runs or + temperature increases from LCD monitors might be unwelcome; or + perhaps doing so in more a public setting like a refugee or + detention camp where power might be limited and where mounting TVs + behind protective glass or restraining them with cables might be + bad for morale. Also, have you thought about putting together + and/or selling "kits" so folks with limited time could acquire a + basic setup as a turnkey solution (perhaps with some assembly + required)? Thanks. +- Hi. Lovely idea to use an ebook reader as dashboard. Are all kindle devices supported or only older ones? +- Mehmet Tekman: I recorded this in two parts: with caffeine, and without +- As soon as i can get my hands on a kindle i will give this a try. Lovely Idea. +- Are the images only pushed or can i request for an update from the kindel itself? + - Mehmet Tekman: images are usually only pushed, but it's done over ssh so pulling is also possible. the main idea is that the interaction is only Server → Client +- Thanks for you talk I have just finished watching it on youtube. +- I have some old kobo's rather than kindle's but thinking of nipping onto ebay to get some + - Mehmet Tekman: I think it would work well Kobo's, since that's likely also a linux system right? + - yes they are linux + - Mehmet Tekman: There are only a few kindle-specific commands, but you can comment them out and adapt them for the Kobo + - there was some work getting kde onto them + - Mehmet Tekman: Woah you have access to an X11 session? + - i think the developers helped, but we are talking 7 years ago for the one they helped with + - Mehmet Tekman: it's not mainline then? + - I don't think so I still use them both for reading books so not messed with them just in case they break + - Mehmet Tekman: That's the beauty of the kindle, it's from such a horrible company and it's so cheap that you have no qualms if you break it :P + - Mehmet Tekman: The kindle basically locks you out of X, which is frustrating since the Kindle Touch runs AwesomeWM. If I had money, I would definitely buy one :O +- The use concept is really useful, so thanks for pointing me in the right direction. +- as someone who easily gets distracted it will be usefull to check on what I am supposed to be doing lol + - Mehmet Tekman: Welcome! For a more stripped down version I can really heavily recommend the kindle-dashboard from Pascal Widdershoven + - Mehmet Tekman: And yep -- I can definitely relate! + +Links: +- Main Repo : <https://gitlab.com/mtekman/kindle-sync> +- Mobile Read Forum (Kindle) : + <https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180113> +- Mentioned Repos : + - <https://gitlab.com/mtekman/org-calories.el> + - <https://github.com/takaxp/org-tree-slide> + - <https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash> # Outline @@ -145,7 +208,6 @@ easily managed from Emacs within a single Org-Mode file. - 40 minutes: N/A --> - -[[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/dashboard-schedule)" raw="yes"]] +[[!inline pages="internal(2021/captions/dashboard)" raw="yes"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/dashboard-nav)" raw="yes"]] |