Show threadElena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂May 28

🔓​ #KindleJailbreak chronicles - day 39 📖​

I'm sharing this in case it can motivate other people with e-readers to get back to steady reading habits.

I setup a jailbroken Kindle with #KOreader and #SimpleUI a little over a month ago (39 days to be exact).

I had been missing reading books and I knew that with quantification / a clear metric showing minutes spent reading every day I could get back in the habit.

For context, ever since I started tracking my step count, I've been averaging over 10,000 steps a day - for 7 YEARS now!

Anyway, 39 days in and my daily reading average (over the last 7 days) has been 56 minutes/day. I was aiming for 30. I guess that it also helps that Suzanne Collins is a great writer 😅​

A side effect of reading so much is that writing feels effortless now. The words just flow.

Yesterday I published a deep dive on W Social (ICYMI): https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/

Wishing you all a great day!

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Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂May 7

One of my biggest regrets from the past few years was losing the habit of reading books. All the usual excuses: child to look after, too tired, not enough time…

I didn’t read a ton, but I had an average of 30 books a year. Last year I must have read 6. This year in early April I was at 0… and the realization shook me to my core.

Something had to be done.

I found out about KOreader and SimpleUI - having on an e-reader homepage a bar with reading stats would be an incredible motivator… I thought.

Jailbroke my #Kindle, installed #KOreader and #SimpleUI. And 18 days later I have… an 18 day reading streak and I’m averaging 43 minutes of reading time per day. I’m just so happy! 😊

(Unrelated but #Technofeudalism is REALLY GOOD - off to go resume reading it for another 20 minutes or so).

#books #reading #habits #KindleJailbreak

Show threadElena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Apr 26

👩‍💻​ My So Called Sudo Life: Jailbroken Kindle edition 📖​

If you followed my #Jailbreaking adventures this past week, I'd like to add a final chapter on the positive effect it had on my reading habits.

Long story short: I used to be an avid reader and I had sadly lost the habit of reading books in the last couple of years (blaming tiredness at the end of the day). I had been looking for a system to encourage me to get back on track. When I found out about #KOreader and #SimpleUI I was totally smitten: an elegant interface that kept track of my reading stats? Sign me up!

In the photo I've attached you can see my reading stats for the past week - aka since I started using KOreader and SimpleUI. If you don't want to squint / find it harder to read: my daily reading average is about 40 minutes. Not bad! I'm just absolutely delighted by this.

#KindleJailbreak #reading #books #habits #MySoCalledSudoLife

Show threadElena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Apr 21

👩🏻‍💻 my so-called sudo life - day 490: #KindleJailbreak edition 🆓

Regarding yesterday's post on the Kindle jailbreak: it is SO WORTH it.

I hope I didn't discourage anyone by saying how much I struggled with it. Well, I had a 15 YEAR OLD device and the online tutorials didn't work with it. I finally managed to install KUAL after finding a Reddit thread that gave step-by-step advice for the Kindle 4 gen.

I was really bummed that highlighting didn't work for it so I bit the bullet and got my hands on the cheapest e-reader I could find yesterday: a Kindle 11 gen with ads.

Mind you, I'm in the Italian countryside at the moment and it's a miracle they had it in stock at my local superstore. I would have preferred a Kobo but it is what it is.

Jailbreaking a recent Kindle is child's play. I was happy to see that it was not on the latest firmware, so it was easily jailbreakable.

So:

  • jailbreaking it
  • installing a HotFix to prevent OTA updates
  • installing KUAL
  • installing KOreader
  • installing SimpleUI
  • removing ads
  • installing custom transparent wallpapers
  • transferring books to it

    • took a little over an hour. Easy peasy.

    The backlight was great at 2:30am (I was woken up by my child coughing and couldn't easily fall back asleep). Very happy that I can do highlights in KOreader and now the ultimate test is how I can transfer the highlights to my computer / Calibre.

    If you're on the fence, I'd say, go for it. This is the excellent guide I used: https://kindlemodding.org

    For inspo: look up #KOreader and #SimpleUI homepages to realize what you could do

    #MySoCalledSudoLife #Kindle #modding #jailbreak

    KindleModding - Home

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    Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Apr 20

    👩🏻‍💻 my so-called sudo life - day 489: new experiments edition 🧪

    A blog post that chronicles what I have been up to since December... namely: advocating for the Fediverse, creating #selfhosting guides for newbies and experimenting with e-reader jailbreaks and off-grid mesh radio communications

    🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-so-called-sudo-life-day-489-new-experiments-edition/

    #MySoCalledSudoLife #KindleJailbreak #KOreader #SimpleUI #meshtastic #blog #tech #resistance

    👩🏻‍💻 my so-called sudo life - day 489: new experiments edition 🧪

    A blog post that chronicles what I have been up to since December... namely: advocating for the Fediverse, creating self-hosting guides for newbies and experimenting with e-reader jailbreaks and off-grid mesh radio communications

    Elena Rossini
    Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Apr 17

    👩‍💻​ My So Called Sudo Life: Jailbroken Kindle x Windows edition ​

    I just used a Windows PC for the first time in 20 years possibly?

    Long story short, I typically manage my Kindle 4's contents with a Macbook Air from 2013 that still works wonderfully.

    But! The old Air stayed behind in Paris, as I just arrived at my parents' in Italy with my Macbook Air M4. And the Kindle would not mount on it, no matter what I tried (even checking USB connections in Terminal). Last resort: I asked my parents if I could use their PC.

    Dad got upset because with the first micro USB cable the computer wouldn't recognize my Kindle... so he launched #copilotai looking for help and I literally screamed "Nooooo I don't want any of that, quit quit quit immediately."

    A different cable did the trick, I installed an earlier version of KOreader and it seems to be better... but the books aren't rendering yet, they're all gibberish, so I may have to install Calibre on my parents' PC and re-convert all the books.

    Why going through so many hassles? Did you ever see how gorgeous Simple UI is for KOreader? A total game changer.

    Sorry for the GitHub link, but it's either this or Reddit or YouTube, so choosing the "lesser evil" (debatable, I know):

    🔗​: https://github.com/doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin

    I'll share photos as soon as I get it to work... it already took me upwards of 6 hours to get KUAL and koreader to install on my ancient Kindle. Nobody is stopping me now, I'm super super motivated to get it to work 😅​

    #MySoCalledSudoLife #NoAI #Microslop #Kindle #KindleJailbreak #koReader #SimpleUI

    GitHub - doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin: A highly customizable UI plugin for KOReader that features a home screen, bottom navigation bar, top bar and desktop modules/widgets.

    A highly customizable UI plugin for KOReader that features a home screen, bottom navigation bar, top bar and desktop modules/widgets. - doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin

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    Пример офлайн/онлайн инвентаризации на SimpleUI/1C как демонстрация новых возможностей платформы в 2025 году

    Пример такой: Сквозной пример с пошаговым разбором решения на фреймворке SimpleUI для Android совместно с 1С: оффлайновая работа с инвентаризацией, загрузка/выгрузка товаров и документов из 1С и результатов инвентаризации обратно в 1С, CV-возможности ActiveCV. Демонстрация новых механизмов SimpleUI и актуальных подходов к разработке в 2025 году.

    https://habr.com/ru/articles/912398/

    #simpleui #android #тсд #тсд_на_android #тсд_для_1с

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    Датасеты меняют всё (*в мобильной платформе SimpleUI)

    Речь пойдет о новом механизме хранения и манипулирования данными в SimpleUI , который так тесно связан с UI-механизмами платформы что по сути является частью UI/UX. Это многогранный артефакт – это и «визуальная форма данных» (списки, поля ввода, поиск) и резидентное в памяти хранение и примитивное локальное хранение. В целом можно сказать, что «вы наполняете датасет данными, а платформа делает все остальное». Причем в результате выигрыш во всем – в скорости разработки, в прозрачности решения и производительности на любых объемах данных. Кроме того, это удобная работа со ссылочными объектами, что делаем Симпл более удобным для работы с данными внешних систем, а датасеты в свою очередь становятся основным механизмом хранения данных внешних систем (даже для онлайн-решений).

    https://habr.com/ru/articles/892140/

    #SimpleUI #android #framework

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