NetSurf on ReMarkable 2

Summary

One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser. It wouldn't need to be very efficient nor the best browser out there. Just something simple I can use to read definitions for words or other small knowledge when I'm reading articles I've sent to the device. Well, seems with some elbow grease it's possible. And a lot of help from reMarkable discord. In this post I'm documenting the steps for setting it up. I am not responsible if anything goes wrong with your reMarkable device when following this guide. SSH connection and passcode You will have to have SSH connection to your device. Also turning off the passcode during the process will make things easier. You can find out what address you need to connect to use SSH from Settings -> Help -> Copyrights and licenses. There's a little blurb in the end of it with the password and username, and the address. Install XOVI + extensions and apploader XOVI is the tool that makes all this at all possible on reMarkable devices with version 3.20 or higher. Note that reMarkable 2 is the arm32 version. You will also need extensions that allow apploader to work, which is what we use to load netsurf. Follow this guide on how-to install XOVI: https://github.com/asivery/rm-xovi-extensions/blob/master/INSTALL.MD And when I say follow it, follow it to-the-letter! Then, install the qt-resource-rebuilder extension by following the above guide as well. When that is done, install appload, by downloading it's newest version. Place appload.so into /home/root/xovi/extensions.d/ and the shim files into /home/root/shims/. If folders do not already exist, create them. Make sure that everything runs correctly by running xovi/start when you're inside /home/root folder, and then open sidebar. You should see a new button called "AppLoad." Install Netsurf Netsurf is a smol browser that doesn't do much, and has very limited Javascript support. But it's brilliant for very lightweight web-browsing, especially when using FrogFind. Now...