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Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
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Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
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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.
+1 to a Kobo, they cheaper and better than Kindles, with full Calibre support ( https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre - OSS which has been in development for ~20 years!). The way you install additional software is literally just moving files into folders whilst its plugged into your computer. I'm sure it could handle Tailscale.
Most (?) Kobos can run libby so you can get ebooks from your library.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
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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)
The current colour kindles and kobos don't use real eink colour. It's just a bw screen with lcd colour overlay (eink kaleido)
The real colour screens are used on the remarkable (eink gallery) and they are indeed slow for full page updates though remarkable seems to have done a lot of smarts for local updates while drawing.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#64Excellent. This plus OPDS will make for easier transfer of files locally.
Yes and with kavita there's now even progress sync with koreader! I use it on my kindles too.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
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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.
Same with the Barnes and Noble Nooks. I've never rooted one, but via ADB one can install a launcher and most Android applications run. I've used four generations of Nooks to run AnkiDroid. Just beware to check what version of Android the Nook is using before you buy, and what your app needs.
Android on an e-reader unlocks so much potential. I've owned four or five Kindles over the years but recently switched to an Onyx Boox page 7" as my main e-reader. Expensive (relative to Kindles) but runs full Android 11 and has physical page turn buttons. I use an app called BookFusion to sync my library including reading position across all platforms. Battery life isn't Kindle grade but I can get by charging once a week which is a good enough tradeoff for the convenience of being able to run Android apps.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#66Kindles are amazing devices for hacking and turning into cute little dashboards. The kindle modding community is wonderful and full of people experimenting with it. If you have an old kindle, give it a new lease!
Shameless plug: I wrote about my experience here
https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43822251
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
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Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#68Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#69Kindles are amazing devices for hacking and turning into cute little dashboards. The kindle modding community is wonderful and full of people experimenting with it. If you have an old kindle, give it a new lease! Shameless plug: I wrote about my experience here https://samkhawase.com/blog/hacking-kindle/ Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43822251
I love just how non-intrusive an e-ink dashboard is sitting in a room. Definitely can recommend it as a base device that gets you display, wonky Linux, a battery and networking in neat little package.
Also recently showed my dashboard here: https://franz.hamburg/writing/kindling-e-ink-dashboard.html
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
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Please share more details! This sounds so cool!
You can root certain models of robot vacuums and then ssh into them. Most run some variant of linux. Then just install tailscale. There are a few blogs out there of people who have done it[0][1]. It's taking a cloud-based product, de-clouding it, and then connecting it to your own private 'cloud'. Pretty cool all things told. [0] https://kazlauskas.me/entries/tailscale-doesnt-quite-suck [1] https://tailscale.com/blog…
What value do you get from installing tailscale on your robot vacuum?