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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

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No no. You are not supposed to rick roll when showcasing display hacks. For displays you use Bad Apple.

That video has always felt unprofessional to me. I wish we'd choose something else.

How professional should the video be if I want to show something animated on my Etch a Sketch?

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

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post #49

No no. You are not supposed to rick roll when showcasing display hacks. For displays you use Bad Apple.

That video has always felt unprofessional to me. I wish we'd choose something else.

It's one of those things where if someone does the work, they're allowed to show off how they like.

Next time you do an interesting display mod or port, you can choose whatever video you like.

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

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post #53

Anyone have a write-up for doing this with a Remarkable 2?

Fairly sure you can run a vnc client on a remarkable 2. I've been on the fence about getting one for a few years and I'm not super up to date on them, but a quick search turned this up https://github.com/matteodelabre/vnsee

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The good news, maybe, is that "E-Paper" (transflective LCD displays), capable of much higher refresh rates (60 -- 180 Hz), though with greater power draw and lacking E-Ink (electrophoretic) display's persistence, but otherwise sharing bright-light / daylit visibility, are starting to appear. What I've seen of E-Paper displays isn't especially encouraging on the cost front, as similarly-sized displays seem to have rou…

I’ve been using Daylight Computer’s new Android tablet for a while now, which has a 60fps reflective grayscale LCD screen. During the day it looks and behaves like E-paper, but with a much faster display rate. It’s also got a warm backlight for use at night. When the backlight is off the contrast is lower than the E-ink Carta panel used in the Remarkable and Boox tablets, but the backlight and fast refresh really hel…

They seem to be sold out for quite a while, sadly. Good for them, though, I hope they means they’ll grow.

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

#58

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

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The good news, maybe, is that "E-Paper" (transflective LCD displays), capable of much higher refresh rates (60 -- 180 Hz), though with greater power draw and lacking E-Ink (electrophoretic) display's persistence, but otherwise sharing bright-light / daylit visibility, are starting to appear. What I've seen of E-Paper displays isn't especially encouraging on the cost front, as similarly-sized displays seem to have rou…

I’ve been using Daylight Computer’s new Android tablet for a while now, which has a 60fps reflective grayscale LCD screen. During the day it looks and behaves like E-paper, but with a much faster display rate. It’s also got a warm backlight for use at night. When the backlight is off the contrast is lower than the E-ink Carta panel used in the Remarkable and Boox tablets, but the backlight and fast refresh really hel…

How's battery life?

Have you compared sessions where you're principally, say, reading books with a bookreader app vs. Web browsing, or using other apps?

My experience on the BOOX, an E-ink device, is that web browsing (Einkbro) consumes battery at ~10x the hourly rate that reading books (Neoreader) does. How much of that is active display, and how much is other CPU usage, I don't know.

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

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post #48

An E-Ink device would be perfect to play nethack/slashem, MUDs, IF games, turn based games and Chess/Go.

There is pbchess for Chess. It supports multiple ereaders. If I recall correctly, it includes a few other games and applications. For IF, QtFrotz was ported to Kobo devices. (For what it's worth, the main drawback with IF is the lack of a hardware keyboard on most e-Ink devices.)
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