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Originally Posted by Lavender
Understood. One more question. Is it a good idea to block firmware updates to my kobo clara bw when using NickelMenu or NickelSeries? Will kobo potentially block some feature, or patch an exploit we are leveraging for these projects?
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At this point in time, there is no exploit being used. Kobo ereaders are an open Linux installation and no rooting/jailbreaking/whatever is needed. A contrast to the Kindle/Nook ereaders where a walled garden approach is used.
There is a good possibility that a later firmware update might not support the hooks used by NickelMenu/NickelSeries since Kobo is moving to unify the firmware used by their Kobo and Tolino ereaders. Another potential issue with those future firmware updates is that the recovery partition may be overwritten reducing the ability to easily revert to an earlier firmware version which has already been noted on the Tolino ereaders.