Amazon kept shutting down a tablet, so he spent $266 on four AI models to own it
Eric Pardee bought an Amazon Fire HD 10 (11th gen, 2021) to serve one purpose: Fully Kiosk Browser, displaying his Home Assistant Smart Home dashboard, plugged in 24/7. Last winter it started powering itself off.
Something on the device with shutdown permissions was choosing to shut it down. Amazon protected packages were the culprit.
A protected-package wall meant the only fix was root, which nobody had. Claude handled the five losing months of diagnosis until its safeguards cut me off. Kimi K3 found the unpatched 2022 CVE and built the exploit. GLM-5.2 caught the fatal bugs. GLM-5.3 finished the job in a single day, on day one of an $80 subscription, and removed 100 Amazon packages. Cost: $266.15 and five months.
The cost was enough to buy the same tablet twice. Eric says: “I’d spend it again: it was fun, and I learned a lot. I have twenty years in tech and an InfoSec background and the most sophisticated thing I did to own my tablet was prompt an LLM.”
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