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More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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joshstrange wrote: post #75
benterris wrote: post #15

KOReader (mentioned in the article, an alternative OSS interface you can install on most ereaders) is really a marvellous piece of software. I was not sure about setting it up at first, fearing it would drain battery out of my Kobo and whatnot, but I never had any issue with it. The amount of stuff you can customize to your liking has no limit and I feel I have reached the endgame of reading comfort. If you own an er…

KOReader + BookOrbit (or Calibe or whatever you like best) is awesome. KOReader is finicky to configure but once you have it set up its hands down the best experience. I use BookShelf as my main UI and BookEnds to configure the header/footer. I also use KOAssistant which lets you select text and chuck it at an LLM to explain/translate/custom-prompt/etc. It was so nice when reading the Horatio Hornblower series where…

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Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by peter_retief »

fn-mote wrote: post #84
peter_retief wrote: post #25

Any suggestions for an ancient Chromebook? Have one that is managed by a school from 10 years ago and they failed to release the device. I am a fan of alpine Linux which i think may work well on an old Chromebook. Any suggestions/links welcome

> managed by a school […] and they failed to release the device. This means you cannot install the alternate OS setups mentioned in sibling comments. Throw it away. ETA: info correct as of a long time ago. I have done no new research.

My son wants to throw it away, I want to at least try and reuse it.

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by imrozim »

madeforhnyo wrote: post #106
imrozim wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If metadata loging is a concern, worth mentioning you can self host the co ordinates server with the headscale instead. cuts tailscale is out of loop entirely rather than just opting out of what claim to collect.

I think this is a client flag, not a server one.

Wasn't talking about the client flag, agreed that's seperate headscale replaces the coordination server itself the part is tailscale inc actually runs and sees the connection through that's the server side pice

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by punnerud »

mctt wrote: post #54
ustad wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thats a 404

https://github.com/punnerud/tailscale-mpe-rust Might be this.

Sorry, that’s correct. The other one is an internal one not released yet that also have a full Tailscale server written in Rust.

Re: More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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Post by taskforcegemini »

Kudos wrote: post #32
noduerme wrote: post #16

I own a Boox and I've thought about putting it on my tailnet... I love the device, but unfortunately, I trust it about as far as I trust the Chinese government, which means no connections to my accounts or networks, ever. It's a shame.

Can't let a Boox mention go by without highlighting that they've never released the linux kernel source for any of their devices. They've been challenged on it and refused to comply with the GPL for over 10 years now.

Thank you for your service, I had the same itch when I read "boox"

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Post by yeswecatan »

ktaube wrote: post #69
eddythompson80 wrote: post #31

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I don’t know man. Maybe it’s a great reader for those who really need to customize everything. However, I found it very hard to use. I can never find settings where I’d expect them to be. Is font or margins or hyphenation under the Gear symbol or the Document symbol or the Wrench symbol or the long-press book settings? Is it then under Typography, Display, Style, Text or Miscellaneous? I had it on my ereader to check…

Exactly my thoughts. But it all changed when i just put the tailscale proxy on kindle and allowed claude to ssh into it. Now i can just configure it remotely and never really need to do anything else except reading on kindle itself.

That's neat. What did you have claude do for you on it?

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Post by ZeWaka »

ornornor wrote: post #62
ZeWaka wrote: post #45

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> I don’t like the “file explorer” view Exact reason why despite having a jailbroken Kindle, I stick to the stock book browser. It's so tough to navigate on an old-gen Kindle with a low refresh rate.

Check out this plugin: https://github.com/AndyHazz/bookshelf.koplugin I had the same problem and someone here shared the plugin, it does the job very well independently of your file structure and nesting.

Tried it. Unfortunately /way/ too laggy and unresponsive on my 2015 paperwhite.
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