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videah.net
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videah.net is a personal blog at blog.videah.net about hardware and programming. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “My E-Reader Setup”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's e-reader setup post as a source on running software on Kobo e-readers, including the Plato reader written in Rust. Comments cite it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
seemed like a good idea at the time
Most-linked posts?
- My E-Reader Setup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-10
What Hacker News says?
Here's people installing Tailscale binaries and gracefully working around a missing kernel module and the missing iptables binary on the Kobo Sage / Kobo Libra 2: https://blog.videah.net/my-e-reader-setup/#tailscale-vpn https://dstaley.com/posts/tailscale-on-kobo-sage/
Comment linking /my-e-reader-setup/
on “Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders”Submitted Attacking My Landlord's Boiler as a story · 388 points
HN discussionThis would be a good place to start: https://brandonjkessler.com/technology/2021/04/26/setup-kobo... There is also a number of home brew readers and utilities available for the Kobo readers. Plato is a reader written in rust, and covered in this post: https://blog.videah.net/my-e-reader-setup/
Comment linking /my-e-reader-setup/
on “Kobo announces color e-readers”Submitted My E-Reader Setup as a story · 2 points
HN discussion