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

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 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

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      7 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.

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      7 months ago

      jailbreaking
      transitive verb
      to remove built-in limitations from (an electronic device, such as a cell phone)

      - Merriam Webster

      not really it would seem

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        7 months ago

        Sure but the general use for android is rooting and jailbreaking is used for iOS.