Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle
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sandreas
34 minutes ago
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This is cool, thanks for sharing. I recently compiled Rust / Slint on a LicheeRV Nano, which is RISC-V 64bit musl[1]. It's a little portable audio player I'm working on, the compile process is done via custom Cross docker image.

Currently I'm evaluating Battery Pal[2], because the TP4057 Module was not stable enough to power USB-C to 3.5mm Adapters reliably. So far it seems to work as expected.

1: https://github.com/nanowave-player/nanowave-ui

2: https://pnlabs.ca/batterypal/

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hardwaresofton
31 minutes ago
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This is awesome! How reliable are kindle jailbreaks/avoiding updates, etc?

Have opted for other devices like the xteink (or a boox in the future) due to what seemed like a relatively small ecosystem around “aftermarket” kindle modifications.

The kindle would be a great option if it could be reliably jailbroken and loaded with custom software

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a10c
22 minutes ago
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Depending on your firmware version, most jailbreak guides will have you either create an empty directory with the same name as the OTA firmware file (causing any OTA downloads to fail) or install an extension called `renameotabin` which renames the binaries responsible for performing the update, rendering them inaccessible.

source: https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/post-jailbreak/disabl...

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DoctorOW
37 minutes ago
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This looks cool, and one of the first posts I've seen on HN in a few months where I genuinely wanted to try it.
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homarp
2 hours ago
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the code: https://github.com/sverrejb/slint-kindle-backend
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IshKebab
36 minutes ago
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Good work! I guess you need to leave it plugged in?
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