submitted 3 months ago by butch@rblind.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Wonder if there any blind people here who have used a jailbroken firestick and how accessible it is, particularly with alexa. please email to butchb@fairpoint.net

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You cannot. Jailbreak a fire stick

You side load applications to it and enable unknown sources.

Really wish those stupid YouTubers would stop saying that.

And no I'm not emailing you

[-] mister_newbie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

That's not entirely true. If you have a really old firestick on a really old firmware in a drawer somewhere, there was a way to flash a custom Android build on them way back. That's long been patched out, though.

[-] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

I rooted my fire stick with a piece of aluminum, you had to open it and bridge two points on its board to make a reserved memory area writable, and then run a script to root it. Have no idea about new models/firmware but XDA developers is a click away. It was the 4k model at the end of 2019, I think it's just one or two generation behind the current 4k stick

[-] mister_newbie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

No kidding? Didn't think it was possible anymore. I have that exact model, gotta look into it – the homescreen ads drive me insane (and wifey won't let me just buy a Shield).