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As is gaol
I see gaol a lot here in New England historic places. There are plenty of old crumbling "town gaols" and such.
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All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#112Kobo are giving you root access with telnet from the start. You can flash modded firmwares, change the backend servers to phone your own calibre-web instance, install ssh, koreader and even a tailscale vpn on it. They even have UART pins labelled on their board. These are amazing devices to play with. And they read pretty much everything you throw on their storage: epub, cbz, cbr, pdf..
This! I've worked on https://github.com/bjesus/air as a completely alternative and open source UI for my Kobo Clara HD. PostmarketOS support on the device is great and very recently an important patch that will allow us to use Wayland was also merged: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merg...
This looks great. Is there by out-of-the-box usable e-reader that supports SSH? Air still has some manual steps/maintenance.
For comparison, I've used PostmarketOS on Pinephone, and it required a lot of fiddly to get a poor experience.
But maybe the simpler usecase of "just reading" has good solutions?
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#113Kobo are giving you root access with telnet from the start. You can flash modded firmwares, change the backend servers to phone your own calibre-web instance, install ssh, koreader and even a tailscale vpn on it. They even have UART pins labelled on their board. These are amazing devices to play with. And they read pretty much everything you throw on their storage: epub, cbz, cbr, pdf..
Thank you! You just sold a kobo :-) I have a remarkable 2 and really like it, but my wife needs a new "Kindle" and I'd rather cut my finger off than pay Amazon to abuse me. Looking forward to trying out the kobo
Is remarkable 2 a good ebook reader?
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#114It's a shame this doesn't work for the Kindle Fire tablets, which are amazing devices for the price but unfortunately tethered to Amazon services.
Still have two Fire tablets (HD). Works for streaming and reading but surfing can be a drag
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> Only Americans (to the extent I know) differentiate jail and gaol. Jail and prison. You inhabit a very different reality than everybody else. Americans do not differentiate jail and gaol; Americans don't use the word "gaol" under any circumstances, ever. It is not a part of American English.
American here. Never seen the word written before.
Obviously, you haven't visited any colonial American sites. It used to be the normal spelling.
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#116what are the main benefits of doing so?
I'm missing what's the deal with jailbreak in this case, using thee transfer via USB? what's the best thing i can do afterwards?
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
This! I've worked on https://github.com/bjesus/air as a completely alternative and open source UI for my Kobo Clara HD. PostmarketOS support on the device is great and very recently an important patch that will allow us to use Wayland was also merged: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merg...
This looks great. Is there by out-of-the-box usable e-reader that supports SSH? Air still has some manual steps/maintenance. For comparison, I've used PostmarketOS on Pinephone, and it required a lot of fiddly to get a poor experience. But maybe the simpler usecase of "just reading" has good solutions?
Looks like I could use https://github.com/PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image on my PineNote.
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
This! I've worked on https://github.com/bjesus/air as a completely alternative and open source UI for my Kobo Clara HD. PostmarketOS support on the device is great and very recently an important patch that will allow us to use Wayland was also merged: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merg...
This looks great. Is there by out-of-the-box usable e-reader that supports SSH? Air still has some manual steps/maintenance. For comparison, I've used PostmarketOS on Pinephone, and it required a lot of fiddly to get a poor experience. But maybe the simpler usecase of "just reading" has good solutions?
Boox devices are Android based, so also pretty hackable.
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
#119Kobo are giving you root access with telnet from the start. You can flash modded firmwares, change the backend servers to phone your own calibre-web instance, install ssh, koreader and even a tailscale vpn on it. They even have UART pins labelled on their board. These are amazing devices to play with. And they read pretty much everything you throw on their storage: epub, cbz, cbr, pdf..
I moved to Kobo because I bought my partner the Kindle Oasis and just after a year the battery couldn't hold a charge. I contacted Amazon and they would only give me 10% off a new device. I only found one person on the internet who was courageous enough to open one up. The screen was epoxied to the body with no way of opening the device without destroying the screen. So I got her a Kobo Libra H2O. Just as waterproof,…
my biggest fear from moving out of kindle is losing access to the store. they did a good job securing most of the authors and books.
what’s your source for books and how often it happens for the books you’re looking for to be unavailable?
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I moved from Kindle to Kobo for the sole reason that the backlight had tunable color temperature. I've ended up liking it for lot of reasons, including how open they are.
Kindle Paperwhite (and possibly others) have adjustable colour temperature too, with time-based automation. From a quick squizz, not quite the same as the Kobo (I don't think it has the "more blue in daytime" function) but just noting that it does exist on some in some fashion.
It's great that Paperwhite have caught up to Kobo in this manner. Back when I was evaluating replacing my (lost) Kindle I believe it was only an option on the top tier ($300+) Kindle.