Yeah, definitely one of the more hackable “just a reader” type devices. They tend to have most of the features you expect from higher end devices, just on a more stripped down platform.

Really good bang for your buck, and being able to just throw any format at it and have it work is nice.

I’ve had good luck with Pocketbook. They all run on a busy box kennel and can be pretty easily flashed. Since it’s just running Linux, you can also just load in alternative interfaces as apps that just run on the existing kernel

I always seem to inherit the most awfully managed NTFS systems. I really need to migrate our current system to ZFS or BTRFS, but I don’t get paid enough to deal with that.

Plus the company owner is someone who was middle management in on an IT department for years so he’s always rambling on about some stupid proprietary system he remembers from 40 years ago at a sales conference.

3-2-1 is some basic knowledge, even though I’ve been guilty of not doing that in the past when the budget was tight. But at least in those cases I’d take as many old PCs as I could find and run backups on them.

The chapo.chat domain is also owned by the same person I believe and that expires in June. This is a hilariously bad clusterfuck. I’ve been there since day 1 and managed to dodge all the site drama.

Had no idea that it got this bad behind the scenes and this should be a wake up call to the community that we need to have a more open admin team and protocols in place for passing on ownership if something goes down.