Developer Alireza Alavi reported strained eyes after 14 hours of reviewing software licenses, so he addressed the issue by using an ePaper tablet as a secondary display. While you can purchase a purpose-built ePaper monitor, it will cost an additional $199. So, Alavi instead used an old Onyx Boox Note Air 2 tablet he had lying around at home. According to the dev, he used the tablet to mirror his laptop display, allowing him to glance at it if he needed to see a color version of the app he’s working on. He primarily uses it for reading and some writing, especially since the latency on the old Onyx device isn’t as good as on more modern devices.
Alavi actually made two attempts to make the solution work. For his first attempt, he used Deskreen—an in-browser screen-sharing app that lets you wirelessly stream your display over Wi-Fi. However, the streaming quality and input lag was unacceptable for reading, further compounding the slow speed of the tablet due to its age and specifications. Instead, he tried to work around the issue by using VNC.
