I never said anything about Onyx, I don’t own one but have considered them. They look nice and open.

I do own a couple of Kobo devices though and just wanted to say it’s not running Android of any kind but it’s still relatively open. Especially compared to phones, tablets and Kindle. The firmware/OS point you’re trying to make is irrelevant there and I think you know it :)

There is NickelMenu and you can telnet into it. You can also install other OS like KOReader easily, it doesn’t have a locked bootloader or anything like that. So imho that’s pretty accessible and open.

We are talking about the Kobo right? It’s not running any kind of Android or AOSP fork.

No it’s not running Android.

Using Calibre you could probably glue that together. I wouldn’t want Android on an ereader personally.

It’s not open source but it is easily rooted and you can install custom add-ons or even replace the os.

“The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!”

They won’t. Most people just don’t care at all unfortunately :(

I believe that’s a kbin specific bug mixing up image thumbnails or something. Works fine for me from Lemmy.

That’s ridiculously exaggerated and you know it.

Perhap we should focus on cleaning up earth first :-)

Not sure if you already sent the drive away but I would recommend checking the output of ‘dmesg’ (as root on most distributions) after you plug in the drive. It might give a clue as to whats wrong.

It could just be the enclosure or power supply of the enclosure. Can you hear/feel the harddisk starting up? You could try opening the enclosure and just directly install it into a PC if you feel comfortable working with hardware.

You should be able to boot into runlevel 1 easily and upgrade the kernel using the steps someone else already mentioned. No reason to reinstall the entire system.

Hehe no the cereal stuff is rather innocent compared to 2 girls 1 cup.

Sounds similar to the reported issues with websockets. I believe they are moving away from those soon and I think it might solve the issue you have as well.

Hilarious! Thanks for sharing.