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@elena@aseachange.com · Apr 20, 2026
👩🏻‍💻 my so-called sudo life - day 489: new experiments edition 🧪 A blog post that chronicles what I have been up to since December... namely: advocating for the Fediverse, creating #selfhosting guides for newbies and experimenting with e-reader jailbreaks and off-grid mesh radio communications 🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-so-called-sudo-life-day-489-new-experiments-edition/ #MySoCalledSudoLife #KindleJailbreak #KOreader #SimpleUI #meshtastic #blog #tech #resistance
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@elena@aseachange.com · 6d ago
👩🏻‍💻 my so-called sudo life - day 490: #KindleJailbreak edition 🆓 Regarding yesterday's post on the Kindle jailbreak: it is SO WORTH it. I hope I didn't discourage anyone by saying how much I struggled with it. Well, I had a 15 YEAR OLD device and the online tutorials didn't work with it. I finally managed to install KUAL after finding a Reddit thread that gave step-by-step advice for the Kindle 4 gen. I was really bummed that highlighting didn't work for it so I bit the bullet and got my hands on the cheapest e-reader I could find yesterday: a Kindle 11 gen with ads. Mind you, I'm in the Italian countryside at the moment and it's a miracle they had it in stock at my local superstore. I would have preferred a Kobo but it is what it is. Jailbreaking a recent Kindle is child's play. I was happy to see that it was not on the latest firmware, so it was easily jailbreakable. So: jailbreaking itinstalling a HotFix to prevent OTA updatesinstalling KUALinstalling KOreaderinstalling SimpleUIremoving adsinstalling custom transparent wallpaperstransferring books to it took a little over an hour. Easy peasy. The backlight was great at 2:30am (I was woken up by my child coughing and couldn't easily fall back asleep). Very happy that I can do highlights in KOreader and now the ultimate test is how I can transfer the highlights to my computer / Calibre. If you're on the fence, I'd say, go for it. This is the excellent guide I used: https://kindlemodding.org For inspo: look up #KOreader and #SimpleUI homepages to realize what you could do #MySoCalledSudoLife #Kindle #modding #jailbreak
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@elena@aseachange.com · 1d ago
👩‍💻​ My So Called Sudo Life: Jailbroken Kindle edition 📖​ If you followed my #Jailbreaking adventures this past week, I'd like to add a final chapter on the positive effect it had on my reading habits. Long story short: I used to be an avid reader and I had sadly lost the habit of reading books in the last couple of years (blaming tiredness at the end of the day). I had been looking for a system to encourage me to get back on track. When I found out about #KOreader and #SimpleUI I was totally smitten: an elegant interface that kept track of my reading stats? Sign me up! In the photo I've attached you can see my reading stats for the past week - aka since I started using KOreader and SimpleUI. If you don't want to squint / find it harder to read: my daily reading average is about 40 minutes. Not bad! I'm just absolutely delighted by this. #KindleJailbreak #reading #books #habits #MySoCalledSudoLife
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Boosted by Elena Rossini ⁂ @_elena@mastodon.social
@elena@aseachange.com · 5d ago
Oh what a day! Earlier today I managed to communicate via mesh networks with my friend @stereo@freiburg.social in Germany... some 400+ km away. It only took 6 hops... the third one in the chain was the iconic Jungfraujoch radio relay station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungfraujoch_radio_relay_station) So exciting! I can't thank Ralf enough for his help with this... I would have been completely lost without his guidance. Let the fun mesh adventures begin! #mesh #MeshCommunication #MeshCore #MySoCalledSudoLife
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@elena@aseachange.com · 6d ago
Forget trad wives, the new influencer trend should be #NerdWives. "Hey honey, I turned our old computer into a server so I could set up a #fediverse instance for our child and her friends." "Hey all, today I am showing you #NextCloud as an alternative to #Dropbox and #GoogleDrive." "Get ready with me! Today I am showing you how I check in with my friends with off-grid mesh radio first thing in the morning." How awesome would this be? I mean, finally a trend where people LEARN SOMETHING and are more empowered as a result. (Forever grateful to my Fedi friends for all the inspiration and encouragement in trying new tools) ❤️​ #MySoCalledSudoLife
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