Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle

> 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.

You can also run Syncthing on a jailbroken Kindle. That opens up a world of possibilities!

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

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

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.

Love the splash Jameson quote in the first pic.

> If everything means something else, than so does technology

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.

What kernel version is it running?

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