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A comment on Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by t-3 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:56PM (#30237422)
Right now, Kobo is the best, IMHO. Pocketbook is overpriced and underpowered, Onyx Boox run locked-down Android, Amazon is full of customer-hostile practices and spyware.
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Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by BuckRogers on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:20PM (#30277134)
You can't sideload on the Onyx? I've been comparing Kobo to Onyx and I saw that Onyx does support the Google Play Store, which is good enough for me. I'm guessing what you're alluding to is no sideloading of apks.
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Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by t-3 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:55PM (#30278350)
You can sideload, but the interfaces are weird and it's not anywhere near as open as a normal stock Android, let alone LineageOS or a real Linux like Kobo/Pocketbook (my older Kindle Paperwhite also runs some flavor of *nix IIRC, but not as easily hackable, and no idea about newer versions).
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