Didn't work on my Kindle Paperwhite (10th generation) with firmware 5.17.1.0.3.
What symptoms did you experience when you tried it?
All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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I'm an American and I don't differentiate between jail and gaol; I just assumed the latter to just be a funny European spelling of the former. But yes, we do differentiate between jail and prison - the former usually being for those with short sentences or for those awaiting trial, and the latter being for those with long sentences. Interesting that other countries don't maintain that distinction - but I guess most c…
The American distinction is jail v prison. In practice, the distinction is overblown. Jails do hold long term prisoners, and prisons get pre-trial prisoners too. There’s literally a market for jail beds. So prisoners are often sent where there’s an open spot, with little distinction between “short term” and “long term”. A better distinction is that jails are run by a law enforcement agency, while prisons are not.
Your distinction is probably a better one, but the one I've heard is lockups hold temporarily from hours-days, jails hold prisoners for sentences up to a year, prisons for over a year. People might end up in a jail for much longer, but normally they don't.
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So “gaol” is supposedly an alternative way to spell “jail” that I first encountered in a video game. I keep seeing “tyre” on here too. I guess hn is hipster for alternative spellings.
Shout out to Elden Ring
Never expected HN to explain to me what "evergaol" means, but here I am. Thanks :)
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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Tailscale being available totally changed the usage of my Kobo. Seems like a jailbroken Kindle is a requirement to get it. https://github.com/mitanshu7/tailscale_kual
What's the point of Tailscale and how did it change your usage?
No matter what network I'm on my home network is accessible to just my Tailnet without exposing any of my servers to the full Internet.
This gives me OPDS access to my Kavita library from anywhere and I basically never need to plug in my Kobo to the computer.
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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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,…
Don’t they have a 12 month warranty? What do you want Amazon to do after more than 12 months? 10% discount is above and beyond their obligations.
12 months is a laughable amount of time. Sadly, companies have normalized such short periods of time, so much so that everybody would give me looks when I say that 5 or 10 years would be more appropriate. Especially tech folks, so I'm expecting pushback in a forum like HN.
My in-laws have a few kitchen appliances from the 80s. Still working rock-solid. Not the wifi-enabled modern crap with some shitty cloud-based app that you need to replace all the time.
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I dropped out in the first semester of 9th grade and even I know the word gaol, because I read books written before last year.
Yes, but how often do you use it in your vernacular? Since that's the topic being discussed, then first portion of your statement wasn't necessary.
It's the same word, just an alternate spelling which is now defunct.
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
google search "book_name epub"
Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken
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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?
Nope, though possibly with a custom workflow, it might be.
I own a Kindle Scribe, Paperwhite (a couple versions) and reMarkable 2, and while I promise myself to set up an easier experience for using reMarkable for reading and then selling the Scribe, I didn't find the time so they "got me".