Kind of a hijack comment, but since RSS was mentioned - Do you guys have some recommendations for ereader friendly feeds? Content like r/longreads is what comes to mind.
Otherwise Tailscale (the company) will be collecting your behavioral metadata every time you use your Kindle (what other hosts it connects to, on what ports, connection open and close timestamps, etc): https://tailscale.com/docs/features/logging#opt-out-of-clien...
KOReader (mentioned in the article, an alternative OSS interface you can install on most ereaders) is really a marvellous piece of software. I was not sure about setting it up at first, fearing it would drain battery out of my Kobo and whatnot, but I never had any issue with it. The amount of stuff you can customize to your liking has no limit and I feel I have reached the endgame of reading comfort. If you own an ereader, I highly recommend installing it. I'm happy and grateful people spend time developing and maintaining it without being paid!
I own a Boox and I've thought about putting it on my tailnet... I love the device, but unfortunately, I trust it about as far as I trust the Chinese government, which means no connections to my accounts or networks, ever. It's a shame.
I’ve just jailbroken my Kindle this week. I have a Paperwhite 7th Generation and my biggest problem was that I didn’t have dark mode on it. Turns out the only reason that is is because Amazon didn’t want me to have it. Maybe maybe I’ll buy a new device. KOReader has no problem with dark mode and is much faster and snappier than the Kindle software.
What’s funnier is that both my son and my wife have the Paperwhite 10th generation, but only my wife’s device has dark mode. Same exact device, different software depending on when it was bought.
The second major reason for Jailbreaking is that KOReader can do DRM through a plugin so I was finally able to loan out ebooks from my library. No need for a new device, the 10 year old one works extremely well with the right software
Ok, this one crosses the bar - time to jailbreak my Kindle.
On days when I don't vibe-code (or code less), I get this withdrawal-like feeling (lack of dopamine?), and I tend to spend too much time watching dumb X posts or striving for anything that ticks my nerves. Actually, I could use this time to catch up on my RSS queue.
I suspect my jailbroken Kindles will soon get a brand new, in-house developed bare-metal OS of my own design 100%, as it is now possible to do it, which was nearly impossible few years ago...
Even if your kindle is on older firmware that doesn’t have some of the kernel extensions needed by Tailscale to create the .. TUN ? Type network interface, you can still kind of get it working in the user space mode with .. -tun -userspace-networking
And then I see my koreader calibre is pointing at localhost:8081.. so maybe there was a proxy?
It’s been a while since I set it up. But it’s possible
Between KOReader, SSH, and Tailscale, something completely wrecked the battery life of my Kindle Oasis, and introduced frequent reboots/crashes. That was a previous implementation, maybe things have improved.
I had a similar project for bringing up Tailscale on a very resource-limited router, the gl.inet SFT1200, which has only 128 megabytes of RAM, and a dual-core MIPS processor.
Despite my best efforts, the original tailscale-go was simply not going to work, since it used too much RAM, even when I followed some of the tips for stripping the unneeded parts of the binary. Thankfully there was an open-source port to Rust, which more effectively used memory: https://github.com/GeiserX/tailscale-rs
What was surprising to me is that every Kindle released since 2019 has, at minimum, 512 megabytes of RAM, and therefore plenty of memory for tailscale-go to use.
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Yes obviously the actual connection contents are encrypted, but ”just metadata” tells a whole heck of a lot about you: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
What’s funnier is that both my son and my wife have the Paperwhite 10th generation, but only my wife’s device has dark mode. Same exact device, different software depending on when it was bought.
The second major reason for Jailbreaking is that KOReader can do DRM through a plugin so I was finally able to loan out ebooks from my library. No need for a new device, the 10 year old one works extremely well with the right software
Have one that is managed by a school from 10 years ago and they failed to release the device.
I am a fan of alpine Linux which i think may work well on an old Chromebook.
Any suggestions/links welcome
Still not want to jailbreak it because experience is good and I just share some books to the phone app and it get synced to the kindle device
Love tailscale though, perhaps Need buy some full open source ebook reader with tailscale installed
And then I see my koreader calibre is pointing at localhost:8081.. so maybe there was a proxy?
It’s been a while since I set it up. But it’s possible
Despite my best efforts, the original tailscale-go was simply not going to work, since it used too much RAM, even when I followed some of the tips for stripping the unneeded parts of the binary. Thankfully there was an open-source port to Rust, which more effectively used memory: https://github.com/GeiserX/tailscale-rs
What was surprising to me is that every Kindle released since 2019 has, at minimum, 512 megabytes of RAM, and therefore plenty of memory for tailscale-go to use.