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Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

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Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

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Post by medstrom »

rbanffy wrote: post #28
medstrom wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean "random"? Does the post lack some info or why is it not good enough?

Posts in forums don’t age well, change URLs, become outdated, and so on. If you want a durable thing, you should add that to the project description.

I don't think phpBB threads ever change URL these days. It's only unreliable if the forum is managed by a video game company, because they delete the whole forum every now and then to renew their website. But MobileRead is well-known and enduring.

Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

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Post by theonemind »

SillyUsername wrote: post #15
readthenotes1 wrote: post #11

Posted on GitHub: "unfortunately I lost the Go source code"

Followed up with "but it was pretty simple, like under 30 lines" So simple in fact, that it wasn't quickly rewritten and added to GitHub...

"It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain" - Pierre De Fermat

Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

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Post by lopkeny12ko »

medstrom wrote: post #25
lopkeny12ko wrote: post #24

This article completely glosses over what is presumably the first step of making this work, which is getting a shell on the Kindle. The only resource is some random forum bulletin board post? Huh?

What do you mean "random"? Does the post lack some info or why is it not good enough?

Why is the source-of-truth record for a set of complex technical instructions in a bulletin board board of all places? Instead of, you know, checked in as code in a version-controlled repository, like basically all other software?

Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

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Post by grogenaut »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #36
medstrom wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean "random"? Does the post lack some info or why is it not good enough?

Why is the source-of-truth record for a set of complex technical instructions in a bulletin board board of all places? Instead of, you know, checked in as code in a version-controlled repository, like basically all other software?

Be the change you want to see in the world. In the time you spent complaining about it here you could have made such a resource. Don't ask the Internet in general to do it for you.

Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

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Post by lopkeny12ko »

grogenaut wrote: post #37
lopkeny12ko wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is the source-of-truth record for a set of complex technical instructions in a bulletin board board of all places? Instead of, you know, checked in as code in a version-controlled repository, like basically all other software?

Be the change you want to see in the world. In the time you spent complaining about it here you could have made such a resource. Don't ask the Internet in general to do it for you.

No, I could not have, because I don't own a Kindle nor do I have any way of exercising the instructions. I'm just calling out that this is an asinine delivery format.

Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

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Post by mdp2021 »

Incidentally, in the past few days I have been testing Android + Kaleido3 as a general purpose device, and Termux-X11.

Kaleido3 is very usable; the recent waveforms and correct dithering algorithms allow video consumption with limited compromise (the framerate is high). And yes, coding is very doable (Termux provided the compilers/interpreters).

Termux-X11 adds the ability to have your desktop Linux natively on the Android device (so you may not need to use E-Ink displays as part of monitor devices, but already directly as embedded in a tablet used as active computer).

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