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.

> 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.

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.

Glad this is still an option. Don't mean to rain on the parade here but as someone who used to be into jailbreaking I've concluded that it simply is not worth the hassle anymore. The opportunity cost is too high (I know...... its super ironic to be talking about opportunity cost in a HN comment).

Back in the early 2010s you could have made the argument that maybe these scenes can win over the hardware vendors, but now we know with hindsight that cryptographically signed firmware and locked down bootloaders can make it impossible. Clearly, the hardware vendors won. You will always be playing a losing game by jailbreaking your devices. Even if you temporarily win, you will be operating within an inherently adversarial environment.

Your life will be much better and stress-free if you buy a Boox or a Daylight DC1, where your interests and the hardware vendor's interests are aligned.

On iOS its a completely different story of course, because, well.... Apple has a monopoly on iMessage and FaceTime. But for e-readers, where there are many alternatives, it makes no sense to subject yourself to this.

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

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.

Kudos to all involved in freeing up Kindles around the world.

Excellent. This plus OPDS will make for easier transfer of files locally.

Now do Tesla! I had to resort to running an oauth-proxy to access my Plex on Tesla.

Love the splash Jameson quote in the first pic.

> If everything means something else, than so does technology

What kernel version is it running?

I wanted to add an old paperwhite to a kubernetes cluster and the ancient kernel held me back.