Supernote Manta review

Ok, I’ve had the Supernote Manta for a few months now, so how do I like it? Short answer: I don’t think I’ve written on paper since a day or so after I bought it.

Why I bought it

I bought the Manta primarily for work notes. I write a lot of notes in my job, and while in past roles I didn’t have to refer to them very often, in my latest role I find that I am. Except I can only carry maybe 6 […]

Saved a Lenovo 20TG from the dump a couple weeks ago. Wiped and installed Linux Mint, which works well for the most part. There's not much Linux support for the external eink display, but I did find a driver here: https://github.com/LizardKing00/thinkbook-eink

Now, this driver comes with a system monitor tool, but I wanted the orientation flipped around AND some furry art on there (what's the point of a display if it's not showing furry art, I ask you). Fortunately, the driver also comes with a tool to send over a static image to the display. Wrote a kludgy little python script to grab some system info using inxi, then write that to a template image (containing furry art, yay) rotate the image, and use the setbackside utility from the above driver to shoot the image over to the eink display.

It's not pretty right now, because I don't know how UIs work. It's also pretty slow, but I can still get about 10fps which is solid for an eink display!

#lenovo #eink #furryart #furry #linux #python

New version 0.5.0 of my #kindle (#eink) #rss and #atom reader Kindly RSS! A self-hosted feed reader for E-Ink devices.

This update downloads the favicon beside the fee if available. Thank you @keheliya for the contribution!

https://kindlyrss.app/
https://hub.docker.com/r/nicoan/kindly-rss-reader

Calculator Case to Scratch-Built Pocket E-Reader

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/11/calculator-case-to-scratch-built-pocket-e-reader/

My first week at @openhomefoundation ended with the fortnightly Project Day, which employees get off to work on their projects.

I spent it improving the code for my calendar dashboard that's displayed on a 10" Inkplate #eInk screen.

I dropped the weather integration because I hardly ever looked at it.

Before/after pics: