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Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by throitallaway »

fvrther wrote: post #39

Kobo 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 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.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by yellowapple »

ggm wrote: post #18
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mate, I’m Australian and even I think a gaol is just a dyslexic watching soccer.

Only Americans (to the extent I know) differentiate jail and gaol. Jail and prison. I first read gaol in a 1960s kids book by Randolph Snow. An Australian as it happens. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/1496448

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 countries don't have such a sprawling prison-industrial complex to warrant separate short-term v. long-term detention classifications.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by RachelF »

ggm wrote: post #21

The constant anti patterns in how your library and even things in Amazon's interest like book reviews display are why I would do this, if I thought I could script or fix the changes away. Kindle is Doctorow's enshittification at scale.

Not just enshittification in the way of spying and ads. The actual reading experience has got worse.

I have a Kindle 11 and an old Kindle 3. The Kindle 3 actually works better - easier to read, no random pauses, easier to search.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by thaumasiotes »

ggm wrote: post #32
thaumasiotes wrote: post #26

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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.

I apologise for mixing terms. Jail and Prison? Do you disagree this is a point of difference? Americans also don't seem to talk about being on remand. In police custody is unwieldy, I agree.

As int_19h notes, there are people (in the US) who believe that there is a difference between the meaning of the word "jail" and the meaning of the word "prison". And as int_19h also notes, those people are wrong; Americans will just be confused if you try to use the words differently. It's similar to the insistence of a group with near-perfect overlap that crimes for which jail time isn't a possible punishment can't be correctly referred to as "crimes".

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by drilbo »

my kindle oasis has been largely collecting dusk since I've got my kobo. I do really miss the buttons tho, perhaps this can prolong my buying a third device.

the only thing giving me pause is that I apparently have to register the kindle, which if possible, I'm sure I've avoided. any insight on why this is necessary?

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by RajT88 »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #26
ggm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only Americans (to the extent I know) differentiate jail and gaol. Jail and prison. I first read gaol in a 1960s kids book by Randolph Snow. An Australian as it happens. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/1496448

> 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.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by jclulow »

mvdtnz wrote: post #38
emmelaich wrote: post #35

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In Australia, gaol is far more common than jail. Neither are used anymore really. It's more often just prison or penitentiary. Some of Australia's more popular historical sites are old gaols.

I know, I lived in Australia for 5 years. That doesn't change the fact of my post - that in a thread about jailbreaking kindles, it's nothing but attention-seeking bait to use the term.

Geeze, Louise! Did a Koala mercilessly bully you while you were there, mate?

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by TaurenHunter »

diana-404 wrote: post #7
OuterVale wrote: post #3

Kindles have long had a history of gaolbreaks. I've scarcely seen a scene as dedicated as the folks over on the MobileRead Forums ( https://www.mobileread.com/forums ). I notice many of the names associated with this new break as people who were associated with hacking early Kindles back in the early 2010s. For context, it's been a little while since we've had a fresh gaolbreak for new Kindles. Last one was LanguageB…

I'm new to kindle, I've been into this since 2021 so im not so aware of kindle's jailbreaking history. Can you tell me what gaolbreak is?

It is a very old jailbreak: Ye Olde Gaolbreak! One had to bribe the town constable with a ha’penny and a pint of mead just to install a third-party reading app. Dost thou even root, sir?

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by pathartl »

fvrther wrote: post #39

Kobo 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, significantly cheaper, and you can actually repair it. I ended up getting a Libra Colour for myself and love it.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by mvdtnz »

jclulow wrote: post #47
mvdtnz wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know, I lived in Australia for 5 years. That doesn't change the fact of my post - that in a thread about jailbreaking kindles, it's nothing but attention-seeking bait to use the term.

Geeze, Louise! Did a Koala mercilessly bully you while you were there, mate?

I have no problem with Australians, I think they're mostly great. Occasionally you'll get an obnoxious one who insists on inserting "gaol" into a conversation just to kick off an insanely stupid side thread.
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