After ~40 million years of wanting a decently sized eink device with pen and constantly being disappointed that all that's on the market has some weird locked down Android OS and/or is tied to the vendor's cloud services, I finally ordered a #PineNote, an open source eink tablet.

Had been following the project for a while but it was always in early development and/or sold out. Seems to be somewhat ready now and even includes a pen! Can't wait to install Arch on it and run Doom :P

@shom a while back you were posting about your #PineNote E-Ink tablet, now that you've had it for a while, assuming you still have it, how has it been holding up for you? Do you still use it and enjoy it?

#Pine64

2026-01: monthly blog post reboot  

* Excited for FOSDEM, we'll have a stand and talks
* #PineNote moved up to community
* New nightly repositories
* First Contributor Support Programme report
* systemd musl support + service file upstreaming
* Number of settings apps in Phosh reduced
* USB stack reworked
* loongarch64 binary packages
* New maintainers.txt files

Thanks to everybody who contributes to postmarketOS, you are amazing!

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/25/pmOS-update-2026-01/

#linuxmobile #fosdem #postmarketos

I'm really enjoying this blackberry-style keyboard + trackpad for typing on my #pineNote. It beats the on-screen keyboard by a mile whenever I have to open a terminal or enter a password, and it's so small I can take it with me wherever my PN goes.

https://github.com/ZitaoTech/9981_BLE_USB_Keyboard_Pro