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Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

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Re: Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

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Post by wilted-iris »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #6

This is awesome! How reliable are kindle jailbreaks/avoiding updates, etc? Have opted for other devices like the xteink (or a boox in the future) due to what seemed like a relatively small ecosystem around “aftermarket” kindle modifications. The kindle would be a great option if it could be reliably jailbroken and loaded with custom software

Worth noting that kobo devices are not locked down at all and run linux. They’re very easy to build for.

Re: Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

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Post by Rebelgecko »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #6

This is awesome! How reliable are kindle jailbreaks/avoiding updates, etc? Have opted for other devices like the xteink (or a boox in the future) due to what seemed like a relatively small ecosystem around “aftermarket” kindle modifications. The kindle would be a great option if it could be reliably jailbroken and loaded with custom software

One of my biggest regrets is not jailbreaking my kindle before it auto updated last year

Re: Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

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Post by airstrike »

KolmogorovComp wrote: post #10

Tangential, how does slint fare compared to Druid/egui(?)

Tangential reply, but Druid has been abandoned. The spirit lives on as Xilem, but that doesn't have much traction either. It's very... exploratory in nature.

I'm partial to iced, which to me is the best GUI library in Rust by far. The Discord is super active if you have questions.

https://iced.rs/

Re: Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

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Post by hardwaresofton »

wilted-iris wrote: post #11
hardwaresofton wrote: post #6

This is awesome! How reliable are kindle jailbreaks/avoiding updates, etc? Have opted for other devices like the xteink (or a boox in the future) due to what seemed like a relatively small ecosystem around “aftermarket” kindle modifications. The kindle would be a great option if it could be reliably jailbroken and loaded with custom software

Worth noting that kobo devices are not locked down at all and run linux. They’re very easy to build for.

This is a great point. Back when I was checking I think I was underwhelmed by the customization ecosystem for kobos but now I’m not sure what was stopping me/made me reconsider.

Upon further inspection there is also the Pine Note!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016

https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/

It’s quite pricey but certainly more straightforward in its offering.

Kobo is the cheaper and has a color option and is likely slightly less hackable.

[EDIT] Ah, I think this is what I found:

https://github.com/Quill-OS/quill

Kobo’s switch to secure boot made things harder for Quill which seemed to be the only custom OS.

Re: Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

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Post by _hzw »

I am working on a self-hosted library server for jailbroken kindle and opted for using pure Rust for the KUAL app to sync books and annotations with the server.

It's just running `cargo build --release --target armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf` with a .cargo/config.toml:

``` [target.armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf] linker = "rust-lld" rustflags = ["-C", "link-self-contained=yes"]. ```

the downside is I can't use any c-deps. :)

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