Jason CosperGetting SSH running on my Kobo seems like it's going to be a little more involved than I thought, but I remain undeterred. #KoboGang
Turns out that I don't need to go through the trouble of compiling a bunch of stuff in order to get SSH running on my Kobo. 
#KOReader (which is *much* easier to install) ships with a built-in SSH server! #KoboGang
Always relieved when I don't have to follow ~5 year old directions from some random blog to do a technical thing.
Jeremy Kitchen@boogah wait why do you want to ssh into your kobo?
(genuine question)
(also, can you install tailscale on it? :D )
@kitchen To transfer books to it. Right now my options are:
1. Plug it into my laptop.
2. Send books via FTP.
I know that I'm only using the telnet and FTP connections that it offers on my local network (and I can toggle those services on and off at will) but I’d much rather lock it down.
@boogah oh does kobo not have a thing like kindle where you can add books to your online library and it syncs them over? Or are you using a custom firmware on it?
(I was under the impression kobo was fairly feature parity with kindle, just from Rakuten instead of Amazon)
@kitchen It does not appear to. At least not out of the box.
Here's a brief running tally of what I've done with it so far:
@kitchen As for the "does it Tailscale?” question, the answer appears to be yes:
https://dstaley.com/posts/tailscale-on-kobo-sage/
But doing it seems like it’s more of a hassle than I want to go through.
@boogah if you used tailscale you could just ftp and telnet and wireguard does the encryption :D plus then it has a "static" ip when it's connected
I'd be much more worried about the open ports even ssh especially since 99.9% of the time I'm connecting my kindle to wifi it's some hotel or coffee shop or train station or whatever
@boogah anywho I might pick one up if I can find one at a brick and mortar here. I’ve ordered from Amazon for delivery here but they obviously don’t sell kobos (at least in Japan) and I … don’t feel like trying to navigate rakuten and shipping and all of that. I’m sure I can find one in a shop :)
@kitchen NickelMenu will let you set up toggles for your services. Which I still plan on using when I get SSH added to the device. I'd just rather forget that I left SSH on than forget that I left telnet or FTP on.