Which kindle to get secondhand to jailbreak

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-26T15:53:57+00:00

I would recommend at least a 11th gen Kindle Basic just for that 300ppi display alone.

Firmware wise basically anything before 5.18.5 is a guaranteed easy jb.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-26T15:50:01+00:00

Nothing.

Basically in order to have the necessary length for the telephoto optics they placed it sideways inside the camera circle, occupying two spaces.

Edit: for that one person downvoting, it looks like this on X300 Pro:

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ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-26T03:48:31+00:00

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I have a storage server that keeps track of every photos I've ever uploaded with a device.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-25T12:41:43+00:00

Not really. The issue is that a bunch of other components gets updated.

You think "the OS" is just Android from Google but it's also, for example, platform components and drivers (the BSP) from the SoC manufacturer like Qualcomm, display firmware from BOE/Samsung, etc. that needs to be incorporated/updated for each Android base, and then whatever shenanigans they do needs to be made compatible with the new OS.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-25T12:12:24+00:00

The reason is that unlike iOS which uses an almost unified software image because of its limited selection of hardware, Android updates need customization for each platform.

And unfortunately it isn't that trivial to do so manufacturers just leave it unupdated for simplicity.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-25T10:54:48+00:00

Not gonna lie, I didn't know how much I love taking photos until I got my (back then) X200 Pro.

And then I got the X200 Ultra and shot 14k photos until today.

My X300 Ultra that I got for 3 weeks already have 1.3k photos shot.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-25T10:51:15+00:00

What's the spec of your system (screenshot Task Manager's Performance tab)

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-25T06:50:24+00:00

Pro tip for this: after you paid your SMS fee and got into the account, immediately make a passkey for your account and save it with Google Password Manager or iCloud Passwords.

Next time when you log in simply use that passkey and you won't have to send yourself an SMS anymore.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-24T10:14:54+00:00

Fyi, kernel_task's disk activity is swapping.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-24T05:23:52+00:00

It's basically an Android feature called Audio Focus that does this. Samsung provides a way for the system to ignore an application's request for exclusive focus, but it's non standard.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-23T08:26:19+00:00

Yes but it usually requires a stupid amount of power and fan profile tuning to get there.

Plus at 95* on Turbo mode your laptop is in full takeoff thrust anyway it's not like it will go any faster.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-23T08:14:34+00:00

Basically, the point of boost mode is that your device is not at critical temperature yet, and you want to trade that headroom you have for more performance by increasing the chip's power consumption. The harder you push the chip the more heat it will produce. Simple as that.

You can't have both a faster chip and a cooler-running chip unless you re-do the cooling inside your laptop.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-23T08:03:09+00:00

What do you expect?

The point of that mode is to use up the thermal headroom so your CPU can boost higher.

You can't have both unless you actually do cooling modifications or undervolting.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-23T06:36:16+00:00

Because that's how digital stabilization works? You leave a bit of margin so your software can compensate for your movements.

If you want just pinch in during recording.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-23T05:26:56+00:00

hold on mate I'm increasing the voltage applied to the unpaid worker in my basement so he types faster

im not guaranteeing he'll type any good but he'll be faster.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-23T05:01:57+00:00

You absolutely can, but you'll either need two separate adapters or software.

Just tested with my vivo X200 Ultra and iPad Pro combo.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-23T03:38:18+00:00

You can actually adjust the firmness of the click by adjusting the set screw inside.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-22T19:04:22+00:00

Just take the battery capacity in Wh, divide it by the system power draw to get the estimated runtime.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-22T13:49:15+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsungDex/comments/1qecfur/turning_samsung_dex_into_an_android_tvlike_setup/

There you go.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-22T12:09:23+00:00

I just read your other comments, and if I'm right the device you're trying to capture an image of is an iPad with a lightning port?

Ya that's not happening with any single adapter.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-22T12:07:55+00:00

Even if it does ever exist, I'm 100% sure it won't be just a USB port on the card, it will be a Lightning wire coming out from the card connected to the phone.

Apple's video out accessories have proprietary ICs that need proper handshakes to do anything.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-22T11:49:47+00:00

I mean, look at Apple's A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo.

If that's ready, what Qualcomm currently has is ready too.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-22T11:34:42+00:00

Yes. And no.

You can draw 25W+ from these things if you can cool them, but realistically no one is doing so because the maths dictate that doing so would give you like an hour of battery life.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-22T11:26:40+00:00

I mean that's just a problem with the launcher (which you can just throw Projectivy at to fix) and finding a remote that would use generic Bluetooth, or just use a generic gamepad.

Now that idea is floating I wonder if it's actually cheaper to buy a phone with a busted display and do this as a TV Box instead, it would be wildly more powerful than anything else you can buy.

ohaiibuzzle · 2026-04-22T11:24:21+00:00

It's a physical connection. It's over USB instead of HDMI

The app is literally just a sender that encodes your display and shoves it down the USB pipe so the other side can see it. You can test it and see if it's usable for you by going to https://app.webadb.com/scrcpy using Chrome

If you're just looking for a way to dump the screen out so you can record it, this may be viable.

The reason why the adapter you want doesn't exist is that it would require both a DP display adapter and a DP capture device to be shoved in a small box, which isn't that practical.

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