Comment by delecti
3 years ago
Kindles are Linux devices too, or at least they were through the end of 2017 when I left a team that worked on them. It seems likely they still are. You could SSH into them over USB if you had the root password, and even internally we used public hacker tools to get those passwords. I'm not positive this is the same one, but it looks familiar. https://www.sven.de/kindle/
Right but what I meant is you don't really need any hacks to get into a Kobo, you just plug it in, install SSH and away you go.
Kindles seem quite a bit more adversarial.
Many phones are fundamentally Linux devices too, but can't really be properly accessed without hacks unless the manufacturer allows you to.
Can you access the display for the Kobo? What sort of things can you do with it? I'm tempted to get a Kobo reader next, if it's hackable.
No idea, but I assume you can just get into whatever driver interfaces the userspace Kobo software (IIRC, it's QT-based) is using. I can poke at the command line if you want to get some idea of what's there, let me know.
Certainly Koreader has no issues displaying what it wants to (and it does at least some level of e-ink-friendly regional updates).
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