Education: L/R brain.

Mar 21, 2014 9 Replies

Going to a remote, isolated location for a few weeks, may be a good reason to buy an e-reader. But since e-readers are said to actually be linux/android computers, a linux user would not want to be restricted to using the e-reader for reading text.



So I googled: kobo+jailbreak ...and related. And was astounded at the current 'anglo' society's point-of-view. Perhaps/hopefully the east-asians have a diferent pov?



Abstract reasoning is about establishing principles that can be applied to any 'related' situation. eg. once I'd extracted the knowledge of the essential steps to connect to internet via my 3G-dongle-modem, for my PC; it was trivial to do so for the rPi.



Remarkably, all the 'instructions/blog' are written: NOT in terms of the underlying principles/mechanisms, but ITO of specific instructions; and ABSURDLY demonstrated by !!



Apparently the WaltDisney-video-mentality approach is to further concretise the pov, and allow the user to be more like an instinctive animal, and remain incapable of abstract thinking? ==========



BTW where's the 'entry point' for "jailbreaking" an e-reader?



An essential is that, you need to get into a loop:


why do you want to jailbrack an ereader? If it's only to read format that are not natively supported by the reader just convert them with Calibre.

Bye Jack

Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?

I've installed linux on many of my devices of the years, netbooks WRT54G, iPaq, Psion5, plus rooted snd installed custom firmware on phones and tablets - but I have no compulsion to "get at" my kobo as a linux device, it's for reading books, the e-ink screen is too slow to refresh to be useful for much else ...

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It's a money /life balance.

Oh. It's "unknown again". Sorry.

It's a money /life balance.

I want to speak to the indjunyear & not the sales-clerk!

Good, then you probably know down to the hardware fundamentals? How would you divert the program-flow , from the intended design, while still keeping access to the I/O [keys & display]?

OK, let's talk engineering, and not socio-economics. Leave your comfortable assumptions and imagine you're stranded in outerspace. So you need to work from fundamentals.

It seems to me that even if the device is *nix based, getting 'root permission' is irrelevant.

Let's consider the simplest example: that you wanted to examine the file-tree:

  • assume `ls` is present; which it would NOT be since `ls`is a maintenace utility, not a production one. .... etc...

It seems that these kiddies who claim to 'root' devices are just bluffing.

I d>> Unknown wrote:

It's a money /life balance.

I think Guenter has been on the sauce again.

He's obviously back from his trip to far away places with his ebook reader. His other sock puppet is back as well posting about keypresses. So far no posts in alt.os.linux.debian.

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