[conspire] Elise's laptops and tablets and Kindles.

Paul Zander paulz at ieee.org
Sun Oct 8 13:55:02 PDT 2017


I also will be at Pacificon that weekend.  

Presenting at the Antenna Forum on Friday.  Enjoying all the other presentations on Saturday.


      From: Elise Scher <elise.scher01 at gmail.com>
 To: conspire at linuxmafia.com 
 Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2017 1:51 PM
 Subject: Re: [conspire] Elise's laptops and tablets and Kindles.
   
Hi Rick,    Sorry about that.    I will be at Pacificon 10/20 - 10/22. Next meeting. 
Thanks,Elise Scher
On Oct 8, 2017 13:03, "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

Afterthought:

> You've quite possibly already done research about other-OS prospects for
> your two slow tablets and Kindle Paperwhite.

I should have said 'other-OS _or_ enhancement prospects'.  Sometimes, it's
just not feasible to convert an embedded device like an e-book reader to
a completely different OS, and yet after 'jailbreaking' to put it in
your full control you can make siginficant improvements such as (in the
case of many recent Kindles) changing the screensaver image, adding your
own typefaces, and adding applications of your choosing.

In the case of several Nook tablet, other-OS modifications were possible
because the bootloader wasn't locked and you were permitted to make it
boot from an SD device holdeing the alternative OS.  I vaguely recall
that many Kindles have been tougher nuts to crack.



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