Found a new tool today. If you have a Kobo e-reader, you can use a different OS to load up your own ebooks and content. Open source and of course ad-free.
If anyone tries it, would love to get your feedback.
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I know someone who bought rakuten kobo, they will definitely be interested in it
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Please do share any feedback you have have from them if they decide to use this.
I’ll leave that to @Onscreen5341 when and if they do.
But it seems the Libra Color has secure boot so we might be SOL on that
We will see
I didn’t try to use Quill-OS based on the fact that the Kobo Libra Color (the e-book reader I bought) uses SecureBoot and there is no known way to flash a custom OS on it, without failing SecureBoot.
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That is interesting, why one would need secure boot in a e-reader?
Why not? The problems isn’t the fact that secure boot exists, it’s the lack of controlling the keys to make it viable to uses other OSes like Quill
Why do we need in this case?
Tampering the boot to get access to your mangas and books? I don’t know what we are protecting in this case. It is a genuine question.
Not having secure boot locking the device to sideload a privacy open source system seems a bit more useful in this case instead of the additional security. Not sure if this makes sense.
Whatever you want to. Perhaps the books you read. Perhaps books that are banned in your country?
Privacy is about also about consent. If you don’t want anyone to know anything, then you deserve to have that privacy.
Privacy is about also about consent. If you don’t want anyone to know anything, then you deserve to have that privacy.
This would be a valid argument, IF other things are also protected like FDE, strong password/pin, bruteforce protection. But they are not.
If somebody want to know which e-books you read they will know.
Its still something to safeguard. Of course a simple lock on the door won’t help if the intruders have sledge hammers but a hindrance is a hindrance no matter.
I see it more like this:
Your car is “smart” like any other car and has speed limit detection. It will detect speed limits and if it thinks on this road only 30 miles an hour is allowed it will not let you drive more than 30 miles an hour. You can not turn it off. For safety reasons, but it doesn’t have a break at all.
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I’ve never looked into this before but I’m willing to research anything that’ll give me some privacy on my ebook reader!