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

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Post by sunaookami »

naitgacem wrote: post #129
bazzargh wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know this one has been fixed, but I also find those an annoyance - more so because if you're not logged in on twitter, you only see the first tweet, not the thread. So rather than get irritated when I click through stories, I block the links on HN with ublock-origin rules like so: news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=twitter.com"]) news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=twitter.com…

I do something similar with Google search results. I hide results from Pinterest, Quora, TikTok, ...

I can recommend uBlacklist for that: https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs also supports other search engines

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

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Post by whamlastxmas »

whamlastxmas wrote: post #58
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?

I’m a software developer and rooting my kindle genuinely took a couple hours from googling to it working. It’s definitely not for the light hearted

Faint of heart was the expression I was looking for I think, haha

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

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Post by sbarre »

konschubert wrote: post #113
sbarre wrote: post #112

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I was about to buy one of these until I saw it relies on a backend service that you provide. Any thoughts/plans on allowing a customer to self-host the backend? Or would you publish specs so someone could build their own? I love the idea of this, and we would love to have one of these in our house, I've just been burned too many times with fully functional physical products bricking because the company behind it goes…

It’s on the roadmap, but to be frank, other items are before it. It’s complicated and while I had a few people ask for it, I don’t think it’s something that most people need. I know everyone says they’ll support their hardware for a long time and then they don’t. And of course I cannot give a guarantee. But I have no masters to report to. No VCs and no Directors or CFOs. So if I want to keep the backend running, I ca…

Totally fair answer! Thank you...

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

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Post by chaud »

konschubert wrote: post #113
sbarre wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was about to buy one of these until I saw it relies on a backend service that you provide. Any thoughts/plans on allowing a customer to self-host the backend? Or would you publish specs so someone could build their own? I love the idea of this, and we would love to have one of these in our house, I've just been burned too many times with fully functional physical products bricking because the company behind it goes…

It’s on the roadmap, but to be frank, other items are before it. It’s complicated and while I had a few people ask for it, I don’t think it’s something that most people need. I know everyone says they’ll support their hardware for a long time and then they don’t. And of course I cannot give a guarantee. But I have no masters to report to. No VCs and no Directors or CFOs. So if I want to keep the backend running, I ca…

For what it's worth, I've been following your project here and on Instagram for a year or two, keeping an eye out for the day there is local API support. I haven't bothered to even request it until now, since I see at least one person request it in what feels like every thread. Inkplate seems to be the only thing close to competition right now.

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Post by rldjbpin »

Asraelite wrote: post #98
trimethylpurine wrote: post #97

I thought thought it was called "rooting" when in reference to an Android device.

Maybe it's not called jailbreaking on Android phones because it's more or less a supported feature, not something the phone tries to prevent you from doing. On other devices like a Kindle you're actively circumventing security measures.

"rooting" started up by meaning specifically to gain root access to the os. jailbreaking includes this step too, but out of need.

the nice variety of root-access apps you could normally install but unable to run become available after rooting. for many that is enough, without requiring kernel-level changes to make this work. besides this conceptual difference, they both are used interchangeably.

for kindle jailbreaking makes sense as there is no built-in mechanism to support new features/apps.

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