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Color e-ink displays
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Color e-ink displays, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Full-screen refresh flashes for 20-30 seconds, making active development and testing maddening2026-07-21
- Color e-ink monitor is pretty much unusable for the commenter's work2026-06-19
- Mouse is janky and hard to use at low E Ink refresh rates2023-10-02
- Color e-paper takes around 15 seconds to turn a page and ghosts badly2021-01-18