/int/ - International

Why not just simply buy normal ebook? What's the point of buying such locked hardware and then messing with it?

>>18199 Kindles have the best hardware. And I already own it anyway, not gonna buy a new e-reader.

You bought a Kindle, you fool.

>>18205 It's weekend, why are you so mad germling? Jailbreak worked flawlessly, now I have the best hardware and software combined.

>>18200 kobo is better

Yes I would. Amazon is known to push updates that fuck up (or outright delete) your downloaded books. Only downside is they somehow detect it and disable your shit.

>>18244 >Only downside is they somehow detect it and disable your shit. After the jailbreak you can install a fix that disables Amazon updates. And then just leave your device in airplane mode all the time, they can do nothing against you.

I never owned a kindle and I don't understand: can't you simply download epubs on libgen, convert to kindle format on calibre then put them in your kindle file storage to be read?

>>18251 You can and I did that up until now. But a) it's annoying, just being able to use the epubs instantly is better, b) amazon can delete your whole library at will, should you disable airplane mode for an update or something and c) jailbreaking allows you to install koreader which has much more customization options than the stock kindle reader. It's also better for the battery and significantly faster.

>>18194 > jailbreaking allows you to install koreader which has much more customization options than the stock kindle reader. It's also better for the battery and significantly faster. Why do huge companies do this? Surely Amazon could have developed a faster reader themselves and not get outdone by some OSS guys working on their spare time.

>>18254 But would they have sold more kindles this way?

>>18258 I mean maybe. It probably wasn't more profitable to make it slow and bloated. Reminds me of Epic's game launcher. they lose sales because it's a slow, bloated p.o.s. that no one likes

>>18254 Amazon only sees kindles as fronts for the kindle store, they want to sell e-books and show you ads, not give you a good reading experience.

>>18252 Holy shit, this is insane, they can just delete something from your device storage?

>>18348 If you connect to the internet yes, got my whole library wiped a couple of months ago when I first tried to jailbreak with the old method.

>>18254 >Surely Amazon could have developed a faster reader themselves Microsoft is the worst example of this mentality. The core functions built into Windows 95 were never improved by them (eg- snail-paced 0 option copy, batch file renaming, etc). So plenty of third party developers made money building tools to do these functions better. And it never occurred to MS, why don't we buy these tools and incorporate them into our standard OS.

>>18348 >Holy shit, this is insane, they can just delete something from your device storage? Or they make something you bought unuseable... pls support: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/de/imco/home/members About "The Crew" by french Ppl: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/countries/france

>>18474 For some reason (well, I think I know the reason: they don't appear on feature lists), doing stuff faster and with fewer hangs and stutters is usually pretty low priority in professional software development. I say that as a professional software developer. On my current project, I was actually brought on to improve performance because it was so bad that people complained. After that, I just kept working on performance here and there whenever I noticed a problem and / or an easy improvement occurred to me. Startup time of the part that I'm most responsible for has improved from about 30 seconds to about 13 seconds due to incremental improvements. Unfortunately, I could only improve the rest of the system from about 18 seconds to I think about 15.

>>18485 I guess 'looks new' is a better sell than 'works better'. But kudos. In zero patience computing, 30s is an eternity. I kill new tabs if they don't load in 3s. I'm finding the new yt takes forever to load, even with an adblocker.

>>18494 It's embedded computing for some production machines. The look hasn't changed in close to a decade, but we have added many features. What I wrote was about time from power off to responsive user interface. Boot times on PCs are actually pretty good these days, but low cost weak CPUs are very popular in embedded computing. Any excess computing power is basically seen as a waste of money. Which can actually be kinda fun if you're into optimization like I happen to be.

>>18205 I also have one. pretty good for actual reading.