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Wow. This is rad, well done. I've been trying to find an alt OS for my Clara Colour and this looks great. Being able to author apps means I can finally add a way to review my highlights/quotes and search them with ease. Edit: damn, just saw the BW note. It looks like the Clara Colour would be blocked by Cobalt...
Fwiw koreader can be installed very easily. Bit clunky to get used to but extremely powerful and worthwhile ime
Isn't the whole point of Kindle (or other ebook readers) being able to read books without distractions?
There's a contingent of enthusiasts who, once they find out a device runs Linux or can run Linux, seems determined to expose a terminal on it. I don't know why someone needs to SSH into their toaster, but damned if they're not gonna do it, just because they can. Me personally, I just want a reliable toaster.
If a toaster needs to just be a good toaster, it sure as hell does not need a SoC than can run Linux, and I might give it the benefit of the doubt and consider its FW closely tied to HW.
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No, not really. If you used an LLM you didn't actually make anything. It's like if one commissions a work of art: yes, it wouldn't exist if not for your actions, but no, you didn't make it.
> If you used an LLM you didn't actually make anything On my way to ask all academia and researchers to stop using LLMs for their research. As it's just llm doing the research, right?
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You don't need to jailbreak it. Swipe from the top and press the big button labelled "dark mode".
It is a somewhat newish feature, I think pre-2020 models don't have dark mode, afaik (and I have no idea how are old devices supported on kindle, I assume launch and forget, could be wrong though).
Not sure if they cut it off at some point, but they can surely keep updating 10 yo devices.
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the one job that it does well is show you ads lmao (in case you haven't jailbreaked your Kindle yet)
Not to defend amazon but you can remove the ads by paying to remove them, they sell one model ad supported and another that doesn't have ads if you buy the ads supported you can remove it later.
This rules. I want this so bad, I might install this when I get back from my cabin build-site and replace my smart phone with my kobo and a flip phone
It was starting to die and had screenglitches. After a bit of debug, it turns out that hacking the kobo is dirt simple. You open up the back, and replace the SD card. thats it.
There is a large community that have created toolchains and guides. there is of course a port of koreader (https://koreader.rocks/) which has a lua interface for making your own apps.
This is incredible and super useful. More reasons to use my e-reader around the house instead of my phone.
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Easy go where? It’s open source, fork it.
I can't and don't want to maintain all software I use. I need to be picky. There's a big difference between putting money or time into a community of builders and learning in the process (myself or growing others) and maintaining a vibe coded project. That's why I want to know right away which projects are vibe coded so that I don't put any effort into them. You're free to apply different criteria to software you use…
So I'd like to have fully reproducible builts for a dozen or two apps I use seemlessly integrated into my laptop and phone update mechanisms. And yes, my smart TV, router, ereader and note-taking apps...
However, infinite forking also means harder to benefit from others' improvements.