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My trusty old iPad Mini 4 is starting to show its age (it won’t run any of the modern clients for Masto) and I’m thinking about a replacement, however I’m deeply distrustful of Cupertino at the moment, given their recent actions.

Basically, my use-case for a tablet is:

  • reading ebooks
  • doomscrolling the Fedi
  • listening to podcasts
  • streaming from Plex

I’m only interested in an 8-inch that I can hold like a book.

Hardware-wise the #AmazonFire looks like a bargain, but of course Bezos can lick my taint. Given that the Fire is basically an Android, has anyone had success at replacing the OS with a de-Googled OS like e/os or Graphene?

Suite du fil

I order an #AmazonFire HD 8. It arrives, I install the Instacart app on it (after installing Google Play), I try to log in, and I get the error message, "We couldn't validate the security of this request. Sorry!" Great, I just spent over $100 on a tablet which won't let me do the most important thing it was purchased for.
Thinking that maybe there's something wrong with the app, I try logging into Instacart in the browser on the tablet. I get exactly the same error.
3/11

I've been playing online Scrabble with a relative who uses an Amazon Fire. Although this is an Android device, Amazon has their own app store (which doesn't include the official Scrabble GO app), because chokepoint capitalism.

(I am aware that there is an elaborate workaround for this, but it would involve setting up a gmail account for them.)

So we're sticking with Wordvoyance.

heise+ | Fire-HD-Tablets: Werbung und Amazon-Apps deaktivieren, Play Store installieren

Die Fire-Tablets von Amazon nutzen zwar Android, allerdings hat Amazon das System stark angepasst und eingeschränkt. So befreit man die Tablets von den Fesseln.
Fire-HD-Tablets: Werbung und Amazon-Apps deaktivieren, Play Store installieren
heise onlineFire-HD-Tablets: Werbung und Amazon-Apps deaktivieren, Play Store installierenPar Andreas Hitzig
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