Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle

Post by fodkodrasz » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 9:17 PM UTC

carlosjobim wrote: post #25

fodkodrasz wrote: post #19

This is pretty interesting write-up*, though I'm not sure my employer would be happy with me putting out EULA-violation instructions to our company homepage. * - at least for me, as the bugs in the stock reader drive me nuts, and have been waiting for this opportunity for a while

I heard that a lord two provinces to the North had seven of his serfs severely whipped when he found out that they had been talking about how to violate the EULA. These agreements have to be respected!

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 9:44 PM UTC

gcr wrote: post #42

ekropotin wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is situation with latency on these readers? I’ve just acquired the latest gen Kindle and I’m absolutely blown away by how fast it is.

do you mean latency on a color screen? (my experience with color eInk is that it adds quite a lot of latency)

Post by dotancohen » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 10:03 PM UTC

gcr wrote: post #42

ekropotin wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is situation with latency on these readers? I’ve just acquired the latest gen Kindle and I’m absolutely blown away by how fast it is.

do you mean latency on a color screen? (my experience with color eInk is that it adds quite a lot of latency)

Post by veverkap » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 10:33 PM UTC

wrxd wrote: post #46

That’s cool, and unexpected from a corporate blog. Ma favourite e-reader setup still is the Kobo + Booklore combination. Editing a configuration file on the device I can have it connect to my Booklore library that adds my own ebooks seamlessly on top of the one I can get from the Kobo store. I haven’t setup Tailscale on it yet but it’s possible.

Post by Havoc » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 10:47 PM UTC

jsheard wrote: post #4

Havoc wrote: post #2

> is available for all but the most up-to-date Kindles Bought one from eBay to try it out. Silly me connected it to wifi and suddenly it’s up to date and no longer breakable

If you want a cheap rooted eReader I think you're better off getting a Kobo instead, they don't officially support rooting but AFAICT they make basically no effort to prevent it.