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[–] Charliebeans 71 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Issue is reading device, not ebooks. I recommend pocketbook as better alternative to kindle.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've never let my kindle connect to wifi. Mostly because of the tracking shit (that I now know they definitely do) but also so Amazon doesn't brick it with an "update".

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can block all their advertising, telemetry and even their software update domains with pi hole. The older readers allow you to set hardcoded DNS to your pi hole server. Not sure if the newer Kindle Fires and Paperwhites do or not.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

If supported by your router, you can redirect any errant DNS queries back to your specified DNS server.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

From the technical side, they run two 3.x kernel systems on their readers and the sdk was not touched since 2018. Which is why i bought a Android eInk, despite being from the same country like PB.

But i think they are more UI-centric and that part seems to be great, together with long battery life, stability and openness.

[–] Charliebeans 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How is the battery of android based readers?

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Way worse. Long battery live wasn't a requirement for my usecase. PocketBook apparently holds weeks there. I you only want a reader, PB is the better choice. I wanted nextcloud sync (although there's a community app for PB) and general hackability of the software, which is why Android.

[–] Charliebeans 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for sharing! For me long battery life is a must, I have enough devices to worry about, I dont want to often charge my book… Pocketbook has amazing battery life and its one of the reason why I love it so much!

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 11 months ago

No, it doesn't. I confused it, because i looked at the sage prior, respektive, at the Tolino counterpart. Got then an Onyx.

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

A cookie banner with "Yes track me" and "Choose how much you want us to track you" button (on the retailer for my country, doesn't seem to appear on the dot com site) doesn't inspire confidence.

Hows their ink screens? I stayed with kindle primarily for their paperwhite, which is darn comfortable even in direct sunlight.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] owlinsight@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago

That's not true. The rich are extremely rich and with immense amount of power and influence, while the working class has little to nothing. That's capitalism working perfectly as designed, my friend

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 1 points 11 months ago