👩🏻💻 my so-called sudo life - day 489: new experiments edition 🧪
A blog post that chronicles what I have been up to since December... namely: advocating for the Fediverse, creating #selfhosting guides for newbies and experimenting with e-reader jailbreaks and off-grid mesh radio communications
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👩🏻💻 my so-called sudo life - day 490: #KindleJailbreak edition 🆓
Regarding yesterday's post on the Kindle jailbreak: it is SO WORTH it.
I hope I didn't discourage anyone by saying how much I struggled with it. Well, I had a 15 YEAR OLD device and the online tutorials didn't work with it. I finally managed to install KUAL after finding a Reddit thread that gave step-by-step advice for the Kindle 4 gen.
I was really bummed that highlighting didn't work for it so I bit the bullet and got my hands on the cheapest e-reader I could find yesterday: a Kindle 11 gen with ads.
Mind you, I'm in the Italian countryside at the moment and it's a miracle they had it in stock at my local superstore. I would have preferred a Kobo but it is what it is.
Jailbreaking a recent Kindle is child's play. I was happy to see that it was not on the latest firmware, so it was easily jailbreakable.
So:
- jailbreaking it
- installing a HotFix to prevent OTA updates
- installing KUAL
- installing KOreader
- installing SimpleUI
- removing ads
- installing custom transparent wallpapers
- transferring books to it
took a little over an hour. Easy peasy.
The backlight was great at 2:30am (I was woken up by my child coughing and couldn't easily fall back asleep). Very happy that I can do highlights in KOreader and now the ultimate test is how I can transfer the highlights to my computer / Calibre.
If you're on the fence, I'd say, go for it. This is the excellent guide I used: https://kindlemodding.org
For inspo: look up #KOreader and #SimpleUI homepages to realize what you could do
