Fire Toolbox 42 makes Amazon Fire tablets more like Android tablets by disabling & replacing Amazon apps

Amazon’s Fire Tablets are some of the cheapest tablets worth buying, especially if you can get one when it’s on sale. But part of the reason Amazon’s tablets are priced so competitively is because they ship with a custom version of Android called Fire OS that’s tightly integrated with Amazon’s app, eBook, music, and video services rather than Google’s.

While that tradeoff is fine for some […]

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I read about the Fire Toolbox utility for “debloating” and customizing Amazon Fire Tablets. That inspired me to buy a cheap ($35-40) Fiire 11 tablet from 2021 on Woot back in April or May. I finally got around to using it. Unfortunately, because of updates, some of the Toolbox’s utilities like setting a custom launcher do not work reliably. But I managed to remove a decent amount of Amazon bloat and telemetry. My goal is to set it up as a device for reading articles from my Miniflux instance as an alternative to my phone. Here are my initial key steps:

• Used Fire Toolbox to sideload F-Droid Basic
• Installed Iron Fox (web browser), Markor (markdown editor), Frigolio (Wallabag client), KDE Connect, and Syncthing
• I configured Iron Fox to my liking and imported the uBlock Origin rules I use on my phone
• I logged into Miniflux on Iron Fox (synced my clipboard with KDE Connect to get my passwords
• I synced my Markor directory from my phone to my Fire so I could save links from my browser for my newsletter workflow
• Connected Frigolio to my Wallabag server by sharing clipboard with API key and login information from my computer via KDE Connect

I gave everything a test run in the morning and it worked well. Fire tablets have low-end specs, but Iron Fox felt about as snappy on the tablet as it does on my phone (Google Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS). One potential annoyance is that when I woke my tablet up (I had set it up last night), I was presented with a screen trying to get me to log into an Amazon account. I was prompted to finally set this up because I was being tempted by a $250 sale on Google Pixel Tablets (which are supported by GrapheneOS), but if the Fire works well for my limited Miniflux purpose, I think I will opt to save the $250.

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How to use laptop or tablet as a touchpad (and keyboard) for a Windows PC

After decades of working with computers, I started to develop some wrist and arm pain a few year ago. So I switched from using whatever random mouse I could find for under $20 to using input devices meant to alleviate wrist pain. And for the past few years I’ve been happily switching back and forth between a Logitech MX Vertical mouse and a Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball.

And […]

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Okay #lazyweb, I have "inherited" an old #amazon #firetablet that I have no real use for.

Any good instructions out there on how to #jailbreak it and install #linux?

Also, I'm open to any other ideas for alternative uses for it!

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Save 39% on Amazon’s Fastest and Biggest Fire Tablet Yet

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Fire Toolbox v39.1 lets you replace the Fire OS launcher on recent Amazon Fire tablets

Amazon’s Fire tablets offer pretty good bang for the buck if you’re just looking at the hardware-to-price ratio. They tend to have decent screens, reasonably good processors, and niche features like… microSD card readers. But they also run a fork of Android called Fire OS that may not be everybody’s cup of tea.

Fire Toolbox is an unofficial set of utilities for hacking Fire tablets. Among […]

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Read more: https://liliputing.com/fire-toolbox-v39-1-lets-you-replace-the-fire-os-launcher-on-recent-amazon-fire-tablets/

Amazon: addio mediocrità, Panos Panay promette qualità top
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