I'm an happy owner of a #remarkable 2. What I liked the most about this device (obviously apart its calm OS and features) is its theoretical hackability. Since I bought it, I already did some experiment on it. At first, it was pretty easy given that the base OS image provided a python environment. However it’s no more the case, and with a very basic default curl, networking scripts became harder to craft.
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Being a ruby developer, I knew about #mruby, without never taking care to really try it out. I finally thought it was the right time do it and… voilà  : I wrote an mruby build config for my remarkable 2. Everything being statically compiled, by cross-compiling it against curl and the mruby http stack give me again a light and efficient runtime to execute my ruby scripts, without having to dealt with complex openssl bash wizardery.
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If you want to try it out, I also wrote a rake file to automatize all the build.
Have fun :)
- #mruby build config for #remarkable 2: https://git.umaneti.net/various/tree/remarkable/remarkable_rm2.rb
- Rake file to build: https://git.umaneti.net/various/tree/remarkable/mruby.rake
Milouse 😺