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Jealous of the amount of free time you have available ;-) good luck!

Too soon man

Haha thats awesome

I'd recommend scheduled tasks instead. Why be involved at all? :-)

I never said anything about Onyx, I don't own one but have considered them. They look nice and open.

I do own a couple of Kobo devices though and just wanted to say it's not running Android of any kind but it's still relatively open. Especially compared to phones, tablets and Kindle. The firmware/OS point you're trying to make is irrelevant there and I think you know it :)

There is NickelMenu and you can telnet into it. You can also install other OS like KOReader easily, it doesn't have a locked bootloader or anything like that. So imho that's pretty accessible and open.

We are talking about the Kobo right? It's not running any kind of Android or AOSP fork.

No it's not running Android.

Using Calibre you could probably glue that together. I wouldn't want Android on an ereader personally.

It's not open source but it is easily rooted and you can install custom add-ons or even replace the os.

Well you could, it's just the usual pros and cons. How will you get momentum and community around the fork and how will you get a sufficient amount of instances to switch to a fork to have any impact. Not sure we're at that point yet.

Edit; checked the PR you referenced and it's just a stylistic issue apparently. While a bit pedantic imho, I think a fork reaction to this is overblown. It was merged later in another PR; https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2032

That's ridiculously exaggerated and you know it.