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    Benutzer wenden sich dem Jailbreak ihrer älteren Kindles zu, da Amazon den Support einstellt

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    1. number1dipshit on

      Good! What kinda bullshit is that? You pay for a product and they just make it obsolete unless you break some rules? Fuck amazon

    2. thebunnymasked on

      Nothing says “I love books” like turning your Kindle into an underground hacking operation.

    3. ArcadeRivalry on

      My dad is not tech savvy at all, he loves reading. Years ago (like 2013) we scraped together to get him a kindle for Christmas and add a few books to it. He read all the books and couldn’t figure out how to add more. He didn’t want to bother me asking, but eventually did. I felt bad I never thought him how to do it in the first place so went over to update it and buy him a few more books a few years ago. Went into Amazon on it, signed into the account and hit update. The update bricked the entire thing. No jailbreak, no illegal downloads, just a few books purchased from Amazon and hardware they decided they want their customers to have to buy a new version of. 

      It’s hard to believe piracy is bad when the only „legal“ solution is to rent off billionaires and hope you have the money to pay again when they decide they want more money off you. 

    4. Menzlo on

      I bought an xteink x4 (loving it) and a kobo clara b&w. Cya Amazon ecosystem.

    6. adeadbeathorse on

      PSA: If you’re looking to get into e-readers, just buy a Kobo Clara BW. $100, great screen quality, and you can upload all your own epubs and files.

    8. dragonblade_94 on

      I only got exposed somewhat recently after purchasing (and immediately jail-breaking) a new kindle, but the jailbreak scene for these things are wild. It’s a constant race between Amazon to patch exploits & independant devs to find new ones. The amount of custom software & functions you can do on these are cool as well.

      Needless to say, I recommend anyone buying a kindle with plans to jailbreak to immediately block firmware updates, or just never put it on the internet.

    10. Like_a_ on

      What is this bullshit? My son uses my old kindle paperwhite. If I need to buy him a new one it sure won’t be a kindle

    11. repair-it on

      I bought mine second-hand, and never bothered to connect it to the Amazon / internet. Hopefully that means they can’t ‚Brick‘ it. I load my books via Calibre.

    12. GodLikeEnergy on

      I mean you can still load lets just say books onto it through usb. This just means you can’t directly get it from Amazon anymore.

      I think it’s better to lets just say…. get it from other sources. No, antipiracy, it doesn’t always mean to illegally download. it could mean gutenberg or [archive.org](http://archive.org)

    15. vctrn-carajillo on

      Oh god, here come the stories „my 150yo grand-grand parent loves his 20yo kindle and we should sue those companies for not supporting obsolete tech, yeah let’s sue them, that’s what we should do, it’s against the law! buy a new one and set it up for him? Nah, let’s bitch about it“

    17. Ok_Mountain_6404 on

      I bought a kindle 3G wireless in 2010. It was top of the line with an experimental browser. I loved it. I was traveling a lot back then and it was everything as advertised and more.

      It stopped working due to the end of support cycle in 2017. I haven’t been able to bring myself to buy one since. I’m so happy I haven’t bought another.

    20. King0fFud on

      This is why I went with a Kobo after seeing how locked down my wife’s Kindle was. I’ve never regretted it.

    21. Rymbegla on

      Why not use Calibre? Free, no need for wifi and very flexible on sources for content.

    22. CondiMesmer on

      If a company ends support, they should legally be required to open source and let it be flashed.

    23. Dragoniel on

      Not sure why would you need to jailbreak a Kindle. Just use Calibri. You can upload any book on the device.

    24. grapefruitzzz on

      I had two of them whose battery conveniently and incurably died, no more. It’s not TNG here. 

    25. CanExplainThings on

      Every time I connect to wifi, my Kindle removes anything not purchased from amazon and uploads anything I Have on my drive.

      I connected to wifi to update my clock, and lost all my books. And every time Amazon changes the OS, I have no choice but to go along with it.

      My next e-reader will be a Kobo.

    26. LastTrainH0me on

      Okay I’m plenty critical of tech but this article is stupid.

      ~~The „news“ is that Amazon is ending support for, i.e. no longer providing system updates for, devices that are like 5-15 years old at this point.~~ That’s not the same as saying they’re all going to brick themselves or something.

      Also, for those that don’t already know this: **it has been trivial and officially supported to side load your own purchased (or pirated) books on every generation of kindle, ever, at all times**.

      So basically… There’s absolutely no news, and also the whole renting vs buying conversation is completely irrelevant here.

      *Edit* okay actually it’s not really clear from this article but it is in others: old devices will no longer be able to download from the kindle bookstore, so that is annoying and will impact a lot of people who actually don’t know about side loading books. And it’s a shame that Amazon isn’t clarifying the option, but I guess I understand why they don’t want to.

    27. lastdarknight on

      Still have my gen 1 around here somewhere, still annoyed my lifetime of free Internet went away

    28. Dio44 on

      A whole generation of users who were perfectly fine with paying for books are about to find piracy freedom because of a hardware decision

      Do better Panos. Terrible sustainability and customer play.

    29. Debt101 on

      Still using by voyage and never found a reason to upgrade. Though without how awful Amazon’s drm is nowadays I doubt I’ll continue with a kindle.

    30. BusImpossible6741 on

      I have a kindle fire HD that’s almost 15 years old now, still works but has been solely relegated to being my alarm clock. It’s never connected to the internet because there’s no reason to.

    31. F0_17_20 on

      >This guide is for informational purposes only. Always comply with the law and proceed with caution.

      Proceeds to give step by step instructions. Love it.

    33. SovietPropagandist on

      Piracy is a moral and ethical act in 2026. If you can’t own anything then piracy cannot be theft.

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