The Boox, Supernote and ReMarkable brands are a few of the typical choices.
everett
The Wayback Machine's earliest capture is from 2000 and the text references an event from 1998, so that helps narrow it down a little.
Like 10 years ago? Google "qwikster" for all the entertaining details.
You've long been able to switch through your last few opened apps with Alt-Tab, just like on a desktop OS. So maybe Settings is still in your history… or maybe you can get it open again, at least briefly, by mashing keys?
Okular also has vim keys for navigating.
Can you imagine being the one person who downvoted them?
Hiding read posts is in the latest Thunder alpha.
Honestly, Simple File Manager is a bit better then I remembered. But here are some, in order of how much they matter to me.
- As you said, browsing network shares.
- Fast filtering in addition to recursive search.
- Selective file extracting from archives.
- Checksums in formats aside from md5.
Amaze checks some of these boxes, but I find it kind of buggy.
Desert Golfing
I have as well, plus the devices do some sketchy phoning home to servers in China. Unfortunately, their hardware does seem to be better than the other choices, at least among current models.
(edit: I should add that lately I've only been looking at 10" screen models.)