> 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
That's a (very) minor plotline in The Naked Gun (2025).
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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Where do I get DRM-free ebooks to put on a Kobo? I don't support breaking DRM. So I'm using a Kindle because it has the best access to and integration with almost any book I want.
What does it mean to not support breaking DRM? You purchase something and then are fine not being able to use it?
Not OP, but maybe also against buying stuff with DRM in the first place?
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#83Can someone correct me on this: Is using Tailscale effectively putting your firewall at someone else's PC?
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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
You don't need to ball out on eink for that. An old oled android phone is even easier to mod for that. Eink is like the Rust of displays for hobby projects. Everyone defaults to it even when it's not necessary.
What are you talking about, e-ink is much nicer for things like this. An OLED produces actual light, and uses way more power. I wouldn't want an oled display on 24/7 in my living room.
Everyone defaults to it because it's really nice actually.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't need to ball out on eink for that. An old oled android phone is even easier to mod for that. Eink is like the Rust of displays for hobby projects. Everyone defaults to it even when it's not necessary.
What are you talking about, e-ink is much nicer for things like this. An OLED produces actual light, and uses way more power. I wouldn't want an oled display on 24/7 in my living room. Everyone defaults to it because it's really nice actually.
>An OLED produces actual light
Actual light? As opposed to producing fake light?
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you talking about, e-ink is much nicer for things like this. An OLED produces actual light, and uses way more power. I wouldn't want an oled display on 24/7 in my living room. Everyone defaults to it because it's really nice actually.
>An OLED produces actual light Actual light? As opposed to producing fake light?
I think they mean that even an OLED display will actively emit light. When, in contrast, the e-ink displays shown in the linked posts are unlit. That, for me, is the key advantage making the device blend in.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#87Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
>An OLED produces actual light Actual light? As opposed to producing fake light?
I think they mean that even an OLED display will actively emit light. When, in contrast, the e-ink displays shown in the linked posts are unlit. That, for me, is the key advantage making the device blend in.
Turn down the brightness of the OLED and it also just "blends in".
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.
The latest Kobos use MediaTek SoCs with locked bootloaders. The Kobo Clara BW's MT8113, for example. As far as I know, one of the early bootloaders it, BL1, refuses to execute the next bootloader (BL2) unless its signature is valid. We can get the device into a mode where BL1 waits for upload of a BL2 via USB using an exploit called Kamakiri, but in public there is neither an exploit to get BL1 to boot an arbitrary B…
The details in this comment are messed up and shouldn't be taken as authoritative.
- Getting the device's BL1/BROM into download mode (where it waits for an upload of a Preloader/BL2 from outside), for these devices itself does not involve exploits. Kamakiri is an exploit in the upload process that gives an execution point at that stage.
- The BROM on Kobos (at least the old ones, P365's) don't have security enabled as far as I know. (Unless somehow they are lying to us when we ask, which there is no evidence of). They only do some integrity checks (header magic #s, checksums).
- Security on Kobos happens down the chain, starting at the Little Kernel apparently jumped to from the Preloader. I am still learning about the Clara BW's boot process.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
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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?
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