WinterBreak is a jailbreak which was released on New Year’s Day 2025 by HackerDude

It is based on Mesquito

  • lol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    I don’t think there are many tangible benefits if all you want to do is read. You’re likely using Calibre anyway for sideloading books and it converts everything to a compatible format automatically.

    The only somewhat useful things the jailbreak allowed me to do is add custom fonts, custom screensavers, install KOReader as an alternative ebook viewer (although I rarely used it) and prevent updates because the interface became a lot worse after an update at some point.

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      4 days ago

      How did you set the custom screensavers?

      I ran the jailbreak on my Kindle PW6 following the instructions linked here but everything I’m finding when searching how to set custom screensavers is extremely out of date.

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        3 days ago

        IIRC, I just connected via SSH and replaced the files in the default screensaver folder. Can’t check anymore though, because I’ve sinced switched to a Kobo.