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Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by PostOnce »

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

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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.

I dropped out in the first semester of 9th grade and even I know the word gaol, because I read books written before last year.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by user_7832 »

TaurenHunter wrote: post #48
diana-404 wrote: post #7

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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?

Gawdamn, whatever happened to a respectable old Mediatek vulnerability being exploited by a suspicious app on ya computer that called itself something funny like Kingoroot?

(Sidenote but I'm still impressed that thing would work without giving my computer half a dozen viruses)

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Post by polshaw »

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

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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

There's a confusion here. Gaol is simply a rarely used (I would say archaic) spelling of jail. It does not mean prison.

British English also differentiates jail and prison, by extension I assume that's universal.

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Post by otteromkram »

pyuser583 wrote: post #80
yellowapple wrote: post #42

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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 c…

The American distinction is jail v prison. In practice, the distinction is overblown. Jails do hold long term prisoners, and prisons get pre-trial prisoners too. There’s literally a market for jail beds. So prisoners are often sent where there’s an open spot, with little distinction between “short term” and “long term”. A better distinction is that jails are run by a law enforcement agency, while prisons are not.

Dictionary essay of the difference between the two words: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/jail-vs-prison-diffe...

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by otteromkram »

PostOnce wrote: post #81
thaumasiotes wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 dropped out in the first semester of 9th grade and even I know the word gaol, because I read books written before last year.

Yes, but how often do you use it in your vernacular?

Since that's the topic being discussed, then first portion of your statement wasn't necessary.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by pjmlp »

realusername wrote: post #61
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..

Kobos are just a simpler mental model for non IT experts as well, you plug them in, they behave like a USB key, you can't get easier than that.

That is exactly how Kindle first generation used to work, and thankfully mine still does its job.

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by otteromkram »

FabHK wrote: post #28
petesergeant wrote: post #22

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Which dictionary are you using that doesn’t mark it as an archaic form in British English?

Merriam-Webster has it as "chiefly British spelling" of jail, and Oxford English Dictionary has it as a "variant". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaol https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?q=gaol

Cambridge has it as old fashioned.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gaol

Cambridge is British, is it not?

Re: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

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Post by d1sxeyes »

polshaw wrote: post #85
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

There's a confusion here. Gaol is simply a rarely used (I would say archaic) spelling of jail. It does not mean prison. British English also differentiates jail and prison, by extension I assume that's universal.

British English as a language might, British people do not, and the physical facilities are the same. We say someone is “held on remand” if they are incarcerated pre-trial, and the part of the prison which holds prisoners pretrial is often referred to as the “remand wing”.
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