‘the cloud’ is just someone else’s computer. The cheapest way is always going to be to use your own hardware. Get into homelabbing :D

My domain is just used so I can reverse-proxy my homelab for people who don’t know anything about vpn, etc.

The benefits to jailbreaking it are that you can change the layout of the device, remove store icons, and just in-general tidy up the UI a bit. I haven’t seen anything game-changing from the jailbreak; like adding apps or something.

It’s not a software problem, the Oasis has free cellular service for life.

If you turn your Wifi off on an Android phone for example - it still scans and uses the wifi to keep track of your location, for instance. It’s an anti-consumer pattern that companies are using. Airplane mode? – Sure, for YOU. But Amazon probably still allows cell service to connect every couple of hours for exactly this kind of thing.

The error message she received wasn’t sly about it either. It said something very direct along the lines of “We have determined that you are not eligible to read this book so we have removed it from your device”

I’ve been slowly filling my wife’s Kindle Oasis full of pirated books over the last 2 years. I got it initially because it had internet service everywhere and I could just email her the epubs to simplify loading things.

A couple of weeks ago, even though airplane mode is always on for this thing, (so no wifi either) – this thing wipes something like 400 books from her library overnight. Granted, they were all pirated, but they’re doing some nasty stuff there. It looks like there’s renewed effort to combat this.

Sooooo, I sold it and bought her a Kobo Libra Color. Now, I just have her open up https://send.djazz.se/ – give me the 4 digit code, and I can upload books to her that way. Goodbye Amazon. Don’t let the door hit you.

Maybe now is the time for me to transition back into IT work. :D

Louis Rossman is a huge backer of Grayjay, and I would trust that man with my life. He’s a huge proponent of right to repair, he regularly stands up for the rights of people regarding fair use, etc.

Grayjay itself is an awesome app, and I do use it, but since they’re always playing that cat and mouse game, I find it always needing to update in order to keep the video sites I use functional. Seriously support it if you don’t already.

Linux is going to shit when this man dies. He has such a stringent quality requirement that he’s quite possibly the only reason Linux is the behemoth king that it is today. Humans are lazy, unqualified, and the fact that this man tells it like it is so often, and so brashly is why I will continue to use Linux; because I can trust that this guy keeps all the garbage out.

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