Link to it in action: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx386xpDqCY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx386xpDqCY</a>
This is great! I've always wanted more hackable e-ink devices -- the Kindle is nice but it feels like there's so much unrealized potential of an e-ink screen.
Amazon is still offering Kindle's with lifetime cellular connectivity [1]. I'm not sure what kind of arbitrage possibilities exist here...<p>[1] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-Storage/dp/B075RNKT6G/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-...</a>
Everything old is new again.<p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/amazon-kindle-2-hacked-to-run-linux-5351348" rel="nofollow">https://gizmodo.com/amazon-kindle-2-hacked-to-run-linux-5351...</a>
Obviously a valuable project to know about when you don't have enough dead badgers to hand.<p><a href="https://everything2.com/title/How+to+install+Linux+on+a+dead+badger" rel="nofollow">https://everything2.com/title/How+to+install+Linux+on+a+dead...</a><p>(Originally documented in Strange Horizons magazine, but the original source appears to be offline.)
Probably could get something like this running with deboostrap[1] if you prefer Debian over Arch.<p>[1] <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap</a>
Woah, it's been 8 years now since I've ran Debian on Kindle Paperwhite in pretty much the same way :)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHoPgXb-JNM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHoPgXb-JNM</a>
But does it run doom? On pocket book with eink is possible: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0apFspOlK10" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0apFspOlK10</a>
Just a note that this post (and accompanying Youtube video) are from early 2019. Not taking away anything from this accomplishment of course, just FYI.