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So much Karma all of a sudden.
I kind of don't want to make general statements about it, because I don't need them, yet you might. I disable all google related stuff, even the store backend stuff, it is needed by some applications though. I disable most of Onyx' inbuilt stuff too. It doesn't need much but I'll never use email or the browser for example. The background OTA services I also stop because I don't like updates pushed upon me and since this thing is barely seeing the internet in a few cases, it doesn't really need to run. I find it amazing how much memory all this simple stuff needs. When my gentoo linux installation is in full gear with some stuff emulated in Wine, and two browsers open with god-knows how many tabs my system needs about 1,5 GB of RAM. That Android mess sits there and does nothing and is already at ~800 without stuff disabled.
If it wasn't for the eInk screen I wouldn't really be interested in this tablet but the screen is really nice and the SoC is powerful enough to stand on it's own and run a bunch of programs in termux for coding, writing and even mailing (I let it *only* connect to my mail server via thetering to my PC exclusively) and spreadsheets. I also telnet into my workstation and run programs there. Text only is entirely fine for this thing. That said, I wonder if Termux support sixels for pictures. xterm does since a few months.
It would be so, so much more interesting if they'd unlock the bootloader and let us at it. The SoC is even supported in mainline Linux. I run an ASUS Tinkerboard that has the same SoC with the current latest stable kernel.
/rant
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