I successfully jailbreaked my 14 year old Kindle Touch 🎉
This after support for it was ended by Amazon back in May.

Currently my plan is to use calibre to load new books onto it and KOReader to read them.
As a first step I jailbreaked the Kindle Touch and installed KOReader.

Guides for this were scattered and only focused on one part of the process.
So I ended up following the steps in this Reddit Comment, which worked flawlessly for me.

The guides on the Kindle Modding Wiki aren't very good for older Kindle models. Many people have problems with them.

I suggest factory resetting your Kindle, and then follow this guide:

1 - Update firmware

• If your Kindle's firmware is already version 5.3.7.3, you don't need to do anything.

• If it's lower than 5.3.7.3, follow the instructions here to update.

2 - Install jailbreak

• Download the K5 JailBreak (5.0.x - 5.4.4.2) package from here and unpack it.

• Find kindle-5.4-jailbreak.zip. It contains seven files:

  • bridge.conf

  • bridge.sh

  • developer.keystore

  • gandalf

  • jb.sh

  • json_simple-1.1.jar

  • Update_jb_$(cd mnt && cd us && sh jb.sh).bin

• Copy those seven files to your Kindle's root directory.

• Select the "update your kindle" option in the settings menu.

• After the words **** JAILBREAK **** appear at the bottom of your screen, select the "restart" option in the settings menu and wait for the Kindle to restart.

3 - Install DevCerts Update

• Download the DevCerts zip file from here.

• Find the update file labeled "k5-ALL_keystore-install.bin" and copy it to your Kindle's root directory.

• Select the "update your kindle" option in the settings menu

4 - Install KUAL

• Download the "KUAL" package from here.

• Find the "KUAL-KDK-2.0.azw2" file and copy it to your Kindle's documents folder.

5 - Install KOReader

• Download "koreader-kindle-v*.zip" file from here. It contains two folders:

  • extensions

  • koreader

• Copy those two folders to your Kindle's root directory.

6 - Use the KUAL entry in your Kindle's library to launch KOReader.

Had to chuckle quite a bit while reading this article: Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape 😂

Besides the initial Dickover, there are:

• AI-horning
• Captchore
• Quit-shaming
• Cart cling
• Chatflattery
• Botiquette
• Chattermining
• Loginsanity
• Limpetlisting
• Parkware
• Gatejamming
• Baggravation
• Parcel liveblogging
• Socket boomerism
• Schrödinger’s wifi
• Formnesia
• Hostageware

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Will Dormann made a nice post with Firefox settings that a security-/privacy-conscious user may want to enable:

If anybody else is making the switch to (or back to) Firefox, there are a few settings that a security-/privacy-conscious user may want to enable:

1. Enable the Block AI enhancements toggle to disable all AI-related nonsense globally.
2. Disable Telemetry & Data Collection.
3. Disable "Firefox Home"
4. Use "Strict" tracking protection
5. Enable HTTPS-only mode

Bonus:
In about:config, set:

• privacy.resistFingerprinting: true
• media.peerconnection.enabled: false
• geo.enabled: false

Try staying still and "doing nothing" when your head is a beehive of thoughts, ideas, emotions, intentions, and desires.
Sadly, I often end up scrolling.
It gives the illusion of "stopping", but it doesn't help the beehive.

So I have a collection of "rest activities". Jigsaw puzzles. Listen to a podcast or watch a TV series. Read a book. Listen to a song. Physical activity of course, but that's off the table, particularly with this heat.
I'm going to add writing.
Not for the content, but for giving my brain a linear experience without input. Because input feeds the bees.

Stephanie Booth shares her handwritten (!) thoughts on a particular activity to help slow down: Making the Bees Walk in Line

A free browser game that teaches real Vim motions. Drive the ice-cream van (your cursor) around town (your text) and serve every customer under par.

Another fun Vim learning game. Refreshed my memory about f and ; 🍦

Another quick trick from Practical Betterments: Create a default folder for screenshots

1. Press Shift + Command + 5 to open the screen capture interface.
2. Click the Options dropdown.
3. Under Save to select Other location…. This will open up Finder.
4. Navigate to the location you want to save the screenshots to — e.g. Documents.
5. Click New Folder and name the folder Screenshots or whatever you want.
6. Click Choose. That's it!

A handy guide by Nathanael to help reducing your iCloud data usage: Channel your anger at big tech into a cloud storage saving session

I especially liked the part about using the Photos App to automatically bring up a list of pictures of receipts.
This way I could easily delete all the business travel expense pictures that accumulated over the years 🧹

[...] Instead, I picture a specific person and I just write for them. Often this person is "me, but 3 years ago" or a good friend.

Great writing advice from Julia Evans.

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Since the end of last month, I no longer see new podcast episodes for a podcast that produces daily episodes.
No amount of refreshing or unsubscribing/re-subscribing helped so far.
Especially annoying is that the episodes are there when searching for them, but do not show up in the subscribed podcast while episodes of other podcasts show up without any issues.

Today I finally found a way to fix it:

1. Open the Settings app of the iPhone
2. Go to the app settings for the Podcast app
3. Scroll down and click on 'Reset Identifier'
4. Restart the Podcast app
5. Enjoy your missing episodes showing up again 😎

Volker explains in a post how he uses the Brave Browser.
The DuckDuckGo No-AI Search extension sounds intrigueing and thus I installed it for my Brave Browser.
Will see how this performs in the long term and hopefully improves my personal web search experience.