I've been thinking a lot about where this community is at, where it could be and what kind of stuff would be cool to do in the future.
As part of that, I'd be interested in hearing more about what people find frustrating about Kindle hacking and things that they think could be improved upon.
From my perspective:
As part of that, I'd be interested in hearing more about what people find frustrating about Kindle hacking and things that they think could be improved upon.
From my perspective:
- The documentation is bad. There's a ton of useful information on this forum (and the Wiki) but it's poorly structured and in some cases, is needlessly cryptic or massively outdated. This seems like it would be a bit of a barrier to somebody looking to quickly "onboard" themselves in order to start building their project.
- Package installation could be improved upon. It's somewhat strange that we're tied to installing packages via MRPI considering how inefficient this is. To some extent this is necessary (i.e bootstrapping a freshly jailbroken device with KUAL + USBNet), but it would be cool to have a package manager and be able to do something like opkg install koreader
- Cross-compiling is a massive pain. We're limited in what pre-existing software can be built due to the really interesting stuff tending to have nested dependency chains that need to be cross-compiled first. For example, I needed a copy of X11VNC a while back which required me to manually build the majority of the X11 stack first which was.. not fun.