Wonder if there any blind people here who have used a jailbroken firestick and how accessible it is, particularly with alexa. please email to [email protected]

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    8 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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      8 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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        8 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

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        8 months ago

        True

        My first fire tv i rooted and flashed a custom ROM on it

        these idiots though believe jAilBrEAK is fucking installing Kodi and asking unofficial repos in the app

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          8 months ago

          Most YouTubers aren’t actually tech literate?! Say it ain’t so! /s