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Wish they would stop offering me these super cheap EOL chromebooks. They are kinda hard to resist. Must be an incredible surplus of them to sell that cheap. As long as keyboard works, dont find them particularly hard to convert via mrchromebox. Got another. HP 14-SMB which wasnt easy to get info so ...

Well rainy day so played with it. Think the AMD E350 is officially dead. It did boot once and BookwormPup had too new of a kernel for the video card it used. Got this really low resolution screen with NO other options. But after that when I push the power button it flashes and immediately turns off....

Ok, my old Sony stand alone dvdplayer went to electronics heaven last night. It owed me nothing. I was trying to remember how old, its at a minimum 15year old, I remember buying it new. Before it, I never had one go more than two year. To finish the movie, first tried the converted Dell chromebook w...

The iso of BookwormDog I created with Waydroid and Kindle app included, mostly to see if I could, I havent uploaded it anywhere. Probably should just make a new clean version if i am going to do it. i have quite bit experience with it now. Still considering. But read my thread I linked to in Debian ...

@tosim Yes, I think I was at the point of trying to figure how to get the Amazon Kindle books for it. I need to revisit this again as well. Thanks, I'll let you know of my progress. @mouldy I looked at your link to do this as an Android device. I'm very inexperienced for all of this yet but still w...

I am seriously debating just posting a remastered iso of BookwormDog with Waydroid and even the kindle app built in. I just dont want to maintain it and deal with bugs and such. Honestly I even tried it burned to a dvd and that works, not super well but does work, well on second boot, you do need to...

That older 1809 version 64 bit Tiny10 is around 1GB and will run latest Kindle4PC. And if run in a virtual machine, suppose way to go to get more functionality than WINE currently provides. The Kindle for Android app does work fine. Waydroid has a learning curve but works fine, used on BookwormDOG e...

Here is one for version 2.05 from 7 years ago. https://github.com/eugenesan/azilink/releases This version is interesting in that its been converted to an Android Studio project. I played some with Android Studio. That is big learning curve, and didnt put lot time into it. Not sure how useful the num...

Ok, looking at it closer and noticed: DEPRECATION: No tls-client or tls-server option in configuration detected. OpenVPN 2.7 will remove the functionality to run a VPN without TLS. Looks like another big brother knows best one size fits all thing for all situations. Oh joy. Seriously in azilink appl...

Oh, suppose if you just want a desktop shortcut to click.. [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=azilink Comment=azilink phone tethering app Categories=DesktopSettings Exec=kitty -e azilink.sh Icon=/usr/share/icons/devices/azilink.webp The icon is just a generic "clothes moth" ...

@mouldy Think the best thing ever done was figuring out how to permanently disable Windows updates. Used to get paid a lot of money to undo the havoc it caused. wizard Thats what I liked about that windowsxlite.com versions. He offers packages of actual important security updates, so no need to let...

The primary market for Chromebooks has always been schools. The last thing that school boards want is a machine that can be pried open by kids and stripped of any removable parts. The more stuff you can solder down the better. What hobbyists may eventually do with the used machines is not a big con...

I installed with ext2 - and new start - then this P1010670.JPG I got Puppy installed and booted with Grub4Dos on ext4. So dont think thats it. That "wee" error was obviously something from long ago thats been corrected. But I did get Grub menu with the "searching for menu1st" li...

Ok, did I misunderstand and the problem is booting Puppy from Ventoy or is it the SD card created wont boot? Cause I found definite glitch in using the Puppy installer script (the legacy one that says it doesnt support UEFI) that also automatically installs Grub4Dos once you tell it you want a bootl...

@mouldy Most of the duet/refind and clover stuff you can download from the web won't work OOTB, you've got to jerk it around first. For your HP, the duer/refind that I posted should be plug and play, the clover/refind one is only for MBR bios. Took the back off my Lenovo 100s-14ibr cloudbook today,...

Ok, thought this cant take too long. BUT tried downloading a 32bit copy BookwormPup. Nope, nope, nope, Sourceforge must be having problems, it would download then DOWNLOAD FAILED in last seconds. Failed on the retry, then after that wanted to start all over... Finally downloaded an older version for...

@mouldy It is possible to fork a branch to your own repo on GitHub while this link is available. Probably not, I have no skills to check and update the apk. Probably best I can do is occasionally post about it and offer info how to use it. Its a tiny app in modern world, still works, just way under...

I think your problem maybe that you need to create or recreate a fresh mdos partition table on the SDcard using gparted. Create the partition table, then create a ext2 or ext3 partition. Then either copy the files or use the installer. Then guessing you want to use Grub4Dos bootloader installer. I h...

Reading more about the early 14in HP Stream like mine think its 14-ax010ca Anyway the bios doesnt support nvme. And nice workaround with rEFInd-duet, guy in video gave a link, just need the EFI folder out of it, has the nvme driver included. But then some guy posted that he got it working by going i...

Ok, missed this one. Found site still making last version available and it was apparently updated in 2015. Source files too. https://github.com/aziwoqpd/azilink/releases/tag/release-2.0.2 Still say they would got more interest if they had created packages with installer script. No doesnt need it, bu...

I wondered if way to do this with simple soldering iron since several bits that have to be unsoldered. course you have some of that little mesh ribbon stuff that sucks up solder, then doesnt matter so much. Anyway found this: https://www.instructables.com/Replace-Micro-USB-Port-With-Only-a-Soldering...

@mouldy I can tell you from experience booting from an external usb SATA SSD that its about same speed as the soldered eMMC drive. Would be best to check the transfer speed on the hub before all the modding. Received several from Ebay-China that had less than USB v1.0 speed. Thanks wizard I wouldnt...

Hmm, was looking at the various adapter. You know IF somebody really wanted to keep internal wifi plus willing to boot from usb drive. There is a cheap adapter that goes from mpcie to usb. Now this is usb2 so... but anyway if you went this way, you could get a cheap hub like that guy did retrofittin...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrtfe/ Works in tiny10 and micro11. So assume it works in full bloat versions. Think it is supposed to work XP to win11. Features create data discs (CD, DVD, BD) multisession CD support create (gapless) Audio CDs from wav, mp3, flac, ogg files write disc image (ISO,...

I will also mention the latest kindle for pc WILL run in both Tiny10 (the older smallest 64bit version) and windowsxlite.com "micro 11". So you dont need mega bloat to run the app. I do hope somebody modifies WINE to be able to run current Kindle4PC but could take some time. WINE is always...

As I have tried to explain in the wine thread. You can not run the current 2.x versions of "Kindle for PC" in WINE. The last version that will run in WINE is version 1.38 to version 1.40. These still work partially but not all books will load. I have had books complain and want me to upgra...

This is interesting to me. IMHO, the nvme can make a difference on a marginal computer. The 256GB nvme + adapter that I replaced m.2 wifi card in Dell Chromebook 3120 made all difference. I had converted it with mrchromebox, then thankfully after installing the nvme+adapter, the mrchromebox bios imm...

Small update, on BookwormPup64 you will need to install libssl1.1. I just keep a copy around. You may need to look for it in an older version 64bit Debian. Buster? Or older Puppy. The easytether people havent updated anything since like 2018. Its quite a popular app so not sure why. But other than f...

Kindle for PC v1.30 is long time ago and no longer can do current DRM Amazon uses. Kindle for PC v1.38 to v1.40 can run in WINE and can partially work. I have had some books refuse and tell me I need to upgrade. Thus my interest in Waydroid. The current Kindle for PC is v2.34 or something like that....

Ok, noticed the Arch Linux wiki page I said explained Azilink at the beginning of my easytether thread , now no longer does. Shame, they had a good recipe. Azilink originated to give tethering capability to early Android phones with no native tethering app. But works on phones where the phone compan...