- > 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
- I have tailscale running on my robot vacuum. It's my own little autonomous mesh vpn node that lets me connect back to my home network when I'm on the go.
by FlyingSnake
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- Kindles 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
- That’s cool, and unexpected from a corporate blog.
Ma favourite e-reader setup still is the Kobo + Booklore combination. Editing a configuration file on the device I can have it connect to my Booklore library that adds my own ebooks seamlessly on top of the one I can get from the Kobo store.
I haven’t setup Tailscale on it yet but it’s possible.
- If you're looking for a good resource on jailbreaking and installing KOReader on your Kindle, I highly recommend the guides at https://kindlemodding.org/
- I used Tailscale on my remarkable tablet for a while; synchronizing documents over ssh is a lot easier with a static IP. It's fairly hard to get stuff to start on boot on the RM, or at least it was at the time, so I eventually moved off that plan. But it was pretty awesome to be able to ssh in from anywhere in the world.
by fodkodrasz
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- This is pretty interesting write-up*, though I'm not sure my employer would be happy with me putting out EULA-violation instructions to our company homepage.
* - at least for me, as the bugs in the stock reader drive me nuts, and have been waiting for this opportunity for a while
- You can also run Syncthing on a jailbroken Kindle. That opens up a world of possibilities!
- I thought this was a random blog post, but it's coming directly from Tailscale, https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
- Kudos to all involved in freeing up Kindles around the world.
by citruscomputing
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- Oh, this will be very useful. My current solution is incredibly hacky, I run an unauthenticated SSH server on the Kindle (key-based wasn't working), port scan to find it, and SFTP new files. At home, at least, I have a static IP. The whole system falls apart enough that I usually just connect to calibre's remote server and send books that way, though. I wonder what the battery impact of running tailscale on a Kindle is.
- https://archive.is/QR3By
- Can someone correct me on this: Is using Tailscale effectively putting your firewall at someone else's PC?
by marinhero
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- Excellent. This plus OPDS will make for easier transfer of files locally.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0
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- What kernel version is it running?
I wanted to add an old paperwhite to a kubernetes cluster and the ancient kernel held me back.
by beepbooptheory
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- Love the splash Jameson quote in the first pic.
> If everything means something else, than so does technology
- Now do Tesla! I had to resort to running an oauth-proxy to access my Plex on Tesla.
- yes, let's definitely do that
by usefulposter
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