What's unclear here is the refresh rate, but knowing the Kindle(s) this is hardly faster than 0.5fps
For me, that would be fine. It's common to have some reference or other piece of information that I want handy but doesn't change much.
Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
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Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Writing a quick Github gist, sorry haha, I'll post a link here in a few minutes. Edit: https://gist.github.com/adtac/eb639d3c707b55a28f0ee9a420aa7e...
Ok, we've changed the URL above to that one from https://twitter.com/adtac_/status/1820127470613622950 , which it includes.
Thanks!
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Followed up with "but it was pretty simple, like under 30 lines" So simple in fact, that it wasn't quickly rewritten and added to GitHub...
I should stop writing code in files like /tmp/x.go no matter how throwaway I think the code might be. I still have the linux/armv7 binary if anyone wants it lol.
Oh man, apparently I'm not alone in using /tmp/ as my storage space. I like it because it's self-cleaning!
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#24This 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?
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#25This 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?
What do you mean "random"? Does the post lack some info or why is it not good enough?
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Writing a quick Github gist, sorry haha, I'll post a link here in a few minutes. Edit: https://gist.github.com/adtac/eb639d3c707b55a28f0ee9a420aa7e...
Ok, we've changed the URL above to that one from https://twitter.com/adtac_/status/1820127470613622950 , which it includes.
dang, can we merge this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155177 or vice versa?
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I should stop writing code in files like /tmp/x.go no matter how throwaway I think the code might be. I still have the linux/armv7 binary if anyone wants it lol.
Oh man, apparently I'm not alone in using /tmp/ as my storage space. I like it because it's self-cleaning!
You could have /home/junk2020, /home/junk2021, /home/junk2022 etc. Still self-cleaning, but it's once a year.
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#28This 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?
What do you mean "random"? Does the post lack some info or why is it not good enough?
Posts in forums don’t age well, change URLs, become outdated, and so on. If you want a durable thing, you should add that to the project description.
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#29This 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?
Jailbreaks are highly firmware and hardware specific. I've only seen one specific combination (5.13.5, PW3), but the LanguageBreak authors have seen hundreds -- including mine -- so I have no additional insight or instructions that the extremely thorough LanguageBreak thread doesn't have.
> random forum bulletin board post
As opposed to a random gist? :)
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#30What's unclear here is the refresh rate, but knowing the Kindle(s) this is hardly faster than 0.5fps
Here's my old Kindle Touch 2 running a hacky Android 4 port attempt and a Game Boy emulator: https://i.imgur.com/m7ZZ1Xm.mp4 I'd say more like 2 - 3 fps. Not sure why there are random black lines. Display driver doesn't handle the demand of constant update very well. I normally use it as an e-ink picture frame.