Received my @daylightco DC-1 last week. Returning it this week 🥲 Building hardware is fucking hard and I respect @AnjanKatta for taking this on. But here are my honest thoughts: getting it was long and annoying. - we ordered it in june 24 and received it in jan 25 - we had to pay a €100 customs fee in spain. - europe being europe? maybe, but would have been more pleasant if daylight had stated clearly that the device costs $800 including shipping and customs. what about the product? - feels like a larger, heavier, slightly smarter kindle. - I have the substack app on it so i thought that'd be awesome, and it is, but there are other tools that send substack articles to your kindle and that don't cost $700 what about the screen? - paper-like screen, but it's not e-ink. - there's this weird glare when it's flat on your desk and you're viewing it at an angle (they way you'd write in a book) - ironically the glare is really bad with sun light or some other light source like a lamp - writing is cool but realistically, it's never going to replicate the intuitiveness of pen and paper for the price, it should be a hell yes, but it isn't. doesn't replace any existing device but just adds to the entourage of devices accompanying us everywhere.

Apparently there were cuneiform spreadsheets Truly nothing new under the sun lol

The sheer state of development of Egypt and Sumeria are strong circumstantial evidence that the history of civilization is far longer than previously believed. What we think of as the dawn of civilization is likely actually the peak of a forgotten #longhistory.