For that I would go the route of any mini pc with ddwrt’s development and an e-ink screen. More io, more affordable and much easier to develop on!

Its running an older version of android, 4.4 KitKat and its massively stripped down with system apps. Keeps in lean, but fully functional. As a tinkerer and an enjoyer of digital books, this scratches an itch which jailbreaking didn’t.

I used the white winter jailbreak, then (guide)Installing android on your (aging) kindle e-reader

Read the PDF to get I good understanding of the processes involved. Also one of the tools is in Chinese but once a list of text is shown press 8, I saw someone in the thread pressed something else and bricked they’re Kindle, but its all covered in the PDF guide.

I was pretty content with that too but then with one of the updates I had Amazon asking for registration and network connection every time I powered on. That and defaulting to store screen instead of my library. When I first got the pw3 this wasn’t an issue.

I would recommend the white winter jailbreak.

I don’t have gaps on my kindle. And even has limited system apps as it needs to be light for the hardware

If I had to buy an ereader I would buy something that is native android but my pw3 had been passed to me from my grandmother, which I cherish the device but I care deeply about privacy and freedom so hackdroid is a great middle ground.

My kindle PW3 runs android well. If anything it feels faster as no notifications about logging in, registering.

I was running only arch on my surface pro 7 and my amd desktop, then last week after an update it seemed gnome and Linux surface kernel weren’t playing nice and had bricked the install. I have switch the laptop to Debian but I tend to stick with arch, like op as I am used to it, I now run Debian as it is known to be stable.

I would love to find a new distro but for me its the sunk cost fallacy, I have put so much time into learning arch and to repeat all that - this new distro would need to offer something wildly different.

This is massive. Hope the detail leak so we can use this in the revolution.

We have Affinity at home:

Affinity at home > Gimp

Tailscale is a mesh network so all device that are logged in can connect to each other. Then with mullvad we are able to use them as an exit node.

I would suggest looking up tailscales docs, its not massively complicated but I wouldn’t do the process justice.

But the short of it: signup with tailscale. Add tailscales software to each device. Then from tailscales admin panel go to setting, VPN, mullvad, setup payment then add up to 5 devices to use mullvad as an exit node.

Tailscale + mullvad integration works great if you want port forwarding and at about the same price as mullvad VPN.

Dead link 😢

too true, make it a lifes mission to avoid getting shafted. take pride in once ability, for me: that is repairing electronics, using privacy respecting platforms and having as small a finger print as possible.

Plenty of big flash points at current. I think we are seeing capitalism in disrepair, similar to 1920 Europe, world powers are rebalancing and competing for the now very limited resources. The working class are taking the brunt of the hardship and seek real change, and when trump can’t make good on those promises we will see a real struggle.

Good luck out there comrade.

“Trust no one - not even yourself”

My dad told me this while going through a divorce. He was also going through a criminal trial due to his deviance.

Its one thing that stuck with me and I wish it didn’t.

Another one is from Lenin: " ‘There Are Decades Where Nothing Happens’ and ‘Weeks Where Decades Happen’ "

As a kid religion seemed like make believe, still I followed it and thought of myself as Catholics into early adult hood. Eventually I just started referring to myself as an atheist.

Thats a good idea, my next big spend will be an android ereader. Turning off WiFi on kindle limits so much functionality.