So, South park?

Depends on the model and firmware, but for most, Winterbreak is the current method.

Do note if your Kindle is updated to version 5.18.x currently it's not possible to jailbreak. There is ongoing work on a new exploit though, and a new jailbreak method (or update to Winterbreak) is expected later this year.

Edit - actually, if you're on firmware 5.18.0 the jailbreak may work. 5.18.1 and above it definitely doesn't.

Yeah that's why I called it out. It seemed like it was an important part.

There probably isn't an actual reason why you couldn't connect it to a wall plug in a way that replicates this setup even if a bit hacky. E.g. short cable then attach the unit to the top of the plug. It's not that heavy and may attach fine without coming out of the wall.

First ad that comes out that bitches mouth, I’m taking a 12-gauge to every motherfucking one of them, patch the roof later.

"Further work from our user experience team has resulted in several recommendations, including revising the Google Mini for the North American market to add a Kevlar layer to the case and using data from the accelerometer to treat an abrupt, rapid acceleration with a threshold above a certain level as "undesirable behavior/behavior needs improvement" user feedback to Alexa+'s prior prompt response."

As if I was ever stupid enough to use Alexa.

I bought an Alexa echo long before I actually cared about privacy and I regret it a lot. It's been a pricey paper weight since then. I wish I could flash some kind of OS and use it as a sound bar or something. I can't even use the Bluetooth without signing in with amazon account, which requires a lot of data including phone number.

I wish I shared your experience with the mini. Mine is temperamental, glitchy, somehow obnoxious, and the sound is mediocre.

After AI became a thing, Amazon decided you needed to pay a subscribtion to use Alexa with an LLM instead of the basic keyword recognition model

Do you have a shotgun? Makes a respectable flying target.

Isn't Black Mirror a manual at this point?

Or a documentary.

Sounds like another case of Amazon trying to out-Amazon itself

Never had issues sideloading epubs with Calibre on my PW.

Once….which is probably the point.

Not only that, I wouldn't even use one if they paid me. How did they convince people to pay to be spied on and advertised to?

Dude stop. There only so awesome I can think you are. Fucking legend.

No, Amazon took away the "Download and transfer via USB" option when downloading your books. Making it more difficult to strip DRM, but also to conveniently add it to multiple devices. I prefer to keep my eReaders offline and manage them with Calibre.

Regarding sideloading EPUBs with Calibre, it's not really doing that. Under normal circumstances Kindle can't read EPUB format at all, so Calibre will convert it to a native format, either MOBI or AZW3 generally. But with a jailbroken Kindle and KOReader, you can actually read EPUBs natively. I've actually converted my entire collection to EPUB and deleted the AZW3 and KFX files.

Oh my bad.

Any reason why those formats are worse than epub?

It's really just that only Amazon uses AZW3 and KFX. MOBI is deprecated, and nobody really uses it anymore, not even Amazon. KFX is DRMed to hell, and I'm not sure about it, but most AZW3 files are just DRM wrappers for EPUB anyway. This is why the KindleUnpack plugin for Calibre can strip out EPUBs from most AZW3 files and retain formatting without needing conversion.

Basically, AZW3 and KFX are for Kindle, and only for Kindle. EPUB is an open standard that literally every device that's not a Kindle uses.

I already own a non-Amazon reader that's my main reader, and I want to move away from Amazon's ecosystem.

S## and E##?