Update to my #TRMNL saga: I've successfully replaced it with #Fruitstand (github.com/BasementCat/fruitst…). See github.com/BasementCat/fruitst… for the screen I used it with and some setup info.

Very happy with Fruitstand. It's clearly more beta, but I'll just keep contributing small patches here and there. It's actually #OpenSource, actually has local plugins and is privacy-respecting (all unlike TRMNL) and from what I can tell the dev is chill and not a bigot :)

#DoNotUseTRMNL

I am honestly so fucking dissapointed at #TRMNL (company) that I am going to look into how to decouple it from the company.

Would anyone be interested in joining a chat for it?

I am willing to drive some hacker community for this. I am shit with hardware but with enough help we might get something done.

Edit: i am not interested in building similar infra or whatever. I just want to send images to the device in local network.

Edit2: room made, followers only for now
scalie.zone/@aks/1149652477645…

CC: @adam

More context: social.lol/@adam/1149595540435…

Adam (@adam@social.lol)

Attached: 3 images Just learned some really sad things about Ryan Kulp, the guy who makes the TRMNL. Would not have bought one if I had known beforehand.

^social.lol

• Matrix chat (58%, 21 votes)
• IRC channel (47%, 17 votes)

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Randomly ended up looking at the Twitter ("X") profile of what seems to be the #TRMNL company owner and uhhhh

Something something fellas is it gay to say "my partner" :)

(image cw: most milquetoast homophobia)

...I also regret searching for posts with "trans" and "gay" from that account.

I would like to urge my followers to strongly avoid #TRMNL.

TRMNL calls itself "unbrickable" and Open Source, telling you you can host your own server and that basically everything is fully supported: web.archive.org/web/2025071818…. This is not true. The only thing a local server can do is send images to the device and *proxy from their proprietary server*: web.archive.org/web/2025071806….

To add insult to injury, TRMNL is trying to refuse me a refund, in gross violation of EU law.

#UseTRMNL #DoNotUseTRMNL

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It seems that not many people are aware but FYI the founder of #TRMNL is a dedicated Trump supporter, former NFT shill (and reading his blog/tweets, generally seems to be a piece of shit).

Of course you can do with this whatever you want but I’m certainly not buying one after finding this out.