Straight to the recycle bin, then.

I don’t know how to feel about this.

Article is inaccurate. NewsCorp isn’t journalism.

So here is the jailbreak thread for the paperwhite, and here is the master list for other models.

There used to be Duokan, which was an OS-replacement. I can’t for the life of me find an install image. If you do, let me know. I’d like to try it out.

And in my searching just now I’ve also come across fread-ink (project on hold since 2020), inkbox (mostly for Kobo devices, but some kindle support) and an old hackaday article about HOPE XII which I can’t find any further information on.

Best of luck freeing your Kindle!

I have jailbroken a couple of old e-ink kindles, and as far as I know, custom ROMs just straight don’t exist any more. There have been a couple of attempts, some successful, but the device is so old they’ve pretty much fallen off the internet. The base OS is Linux, around a 2.6 kernel, and I’m fairly sure everything apart from the bootloader is just on relatively unprotected flash memory. Aside from the reader software it’s a pretty standard Linux. To the point where one of mine actually runs an old Debian chroot.

I’m not near my PC now, but I’ll link the jailbreak forums when I can. You’ll need a fair bit of technical knowledge and judicious use of archive.org, the link rot is a very real problem.

Steve Mann invented probably the first mediated reality device, the EyeTap, in 1984. Of course, it was a freaking CRT and mirror array strapped to your head, but one of the original proposed use cases was to remap advertising billboards into whatever you wanted. Fast forward 40 years and we’re using the same concept to beam ads directly into your eyeballs.

Bolognese flavoured cake with bechamel icing.

2012 was the last good year.

Well what did you expect from an advertising company with a side hustle in web search.

I give it a year, tops, before they start serving ads in premium too.

I’m not against this, but I feel like the pizza needs to be on the bottom. You’re just gonna get cheese all over your hands.

No, but confirmation bias is a real thing.

With some people, it’s tempting.

I actually saw someone change their mind in a heated thread. It was amazing.

I am picturing a very confused zombie gnawing on a metal cyber-arm.

DS9 and X4. Probably a good fit tbh.

Cool, I wish I could.

There have been third party Facebook clients, there used to be a few back in the day. Facebook didn’t actively kill them, they just coincidentally kept changing their API in arbitrary ways without telling anyone. Eventually it just became not worth it for the devs.

Network effect. It’s not the platform or the business, it’s the userbase. FB is in this niche where it’s kind of the only way for a lot of people to keep in touch with family. People joke about FB being full of boomers, which is kind of true, but those boomers are all somebody’s parents. Twitter was always for celebs and brands, Reddit was for weird little niche communities.

It doesn’t matter to them if that’s how your brain, personally, works. They’re playing the percentages. It’s how -most people’s- brains work. And they’re not operating on a one-visit basis.

I like to think that I’m pretty aware of this kind of thing, but I’m also fairly sure I’ve walked past a product on my odyssey to acquire milk or bread and thought “oh hey I should try that…” then picked it up at a later date. If you asked me why I did that at the time I’m not sure I could have given you a straight answer.

Sure, it’s annoying for you. It’s annoying for me, too, because it fucking works on me.