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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:36:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Huh. The Remarkable2 tablet has a USB port for charging, but if you plug it into a PC it shows up as an ethernet adapter.

   So then you can SSH into it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:38:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     that's an interesting approach to PC connectivity. Why be a serial port or a mass storage device when you can just be ETHERNET, with a virtual network to the tablet.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:39:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Doridian

     @Doridian yup!

   • Doridian (doridian@furry.engineer)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:40:00 JST Doridian

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     @foone Is it still like the rM1 where the root password is shown somewhere in the on-device help/manual/licenses?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:40:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     info from here:
     https://github.com/danielebruneo/remarkable2-hacks

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:40:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the SSH is also weird: It's not a fixed password. It apparently generates a random password, and if you go into the menus (Menu->Settings->Help->Copyright and licences) it'll tell you the SSH password it generated

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:41:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I guess that's a good (or at least not terrible?) way to do it. It's slightly more secure, you're not going to get hacked by someone SSHing into your tablet because you're on their wifi, but anyone with physical access can SSH in if they need to

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:41:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     still you could have skipped all of this and just made it a serial port. you don't need authentication if it's a serial port.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:42:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     you will not regret giving your USB device a serial port

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:46:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I guess doing it this way makes it possible to reuse the same functionality to connect to the device from both wifi and USB? Since it's just some kind of linux machine.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:51:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Chalk

     @Chalkllate probably nothing! others have hacked it before me, and also it's my wife's tablet, so I don't want to accidentally destroy it

   • Chalk (chalkllate@yeen.town)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:52:04 JST Chalk

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     @foone@digipres.club oh joyous! what shenanigans do you have in store for us :angelhappy:

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 13:46:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • emily, blinkenlight witch

     @emily nice!

   • emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 13:46:46 JST emily, blinkenlight witch

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     @foone I got halfway through doing this with my phone before realizing I had no way to photograph it

   • Ryan Finnie (foo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 13:52:16 JST Ryan Finnie

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     @foone The GP2040-CE is an open USB gamepad input encoder design. It's got a button on the PCB which turns it into a USB flash drive (because it's based on the RP2040, so that's not new). It's got another button which turns it into a USB ethernet adapter to give you access to a configuration web site.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 13:53:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ryan Finnie

     @foo ooh, clever. I might need to look at their code and see if I can steal that for my keyboard

   • Ryan Finnie (foo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 13:56:56 JST Ryan Finnie

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     @foone See how many USB classes you can emulate in one device. Hold down another button and your keyboard turns into an HID mouse which is controlled Asteroids style by the keyboard. Hold yet another button and it becomes a webcam which displays abstract animations depending on the keyboard inputs. Etc, etc.