I loved the 'it turns out I'm an indoor cat with outdoor aspirations'. I often joke I'm an 'avid indoorsman'
You might like this song, The Outdoor Type by The Lemonheads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijlk0GTQbB4
My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
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Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#22I have an ancient ipad that is still functional but stuck on iOS 9. Xcode doesn't let you target that version anymore. Is it still possible to compile an ipa for devices out of support?
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#23I wonder if someone will make a LLM farm from older (probably not too old) iPhones using Apple's new foundation models. I know they won't hold a candle to SOTA models, they are much smaller for one, but when they announced API access that's the first thing I thought of, a sort of "folding @ home" but routing queries to a phone and spitting back the results. It's silly and probably makes no sense at all based on how w…
nop probably a very bad idea even if you had enough iPhones and you could parallelise them, it would be 10x less electricity efficient
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#24Wonderful story! We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking. I have a similar story wherein I repurposed my ancient OG iPhone SE and gave it a new life. https://samkhawase.com/blog/dumb-smartphone/
>We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking. I'm not sure I follow. It feels exceedingly hard to find new uses for old iPads without doing a lot of heavy lifting. Has that changed?
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Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#25Wonderful story! We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking. I have a similar story wherein I repurposed my ancient OG iPhone SE and gave it a new life. https://samkhawase.com/blog/dumb-smartphone/
>We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking. I'm not sure I follow. It feels exceedingly hard to find new uses for old iPads without doing a lot of heavy lifting. Has that changed?
My iPad 3 is only unusable because anything beyond iOS 9 isn't installable, most of the like 5 Apps I did have installed on it didn't survive a "backup", and obvs nobody's going out of their way to support ancient platforms.
Otherwise, it still functions as an epub reader as long as iBooks continues functioning, but it's lame that I can't really use it for much else unless I made it a hobby.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#26>I’m saving approximately $84-120 CAD annually. I suppose most of this is eaten up by the need to pay apple $99 per year just to run your own app on your own phone for longer than a week.
I believe you only have to pay to put your app on the App Store. I’ve made apps for my iPhone before and never had to pay.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#27I have an ancient ipad that is still functional but stuck on iOS 9. Xcode doesn't let you target that version anymore. Is it still possible to compile an ipa for devices out of support?
It's a painfully sluggish alternative, but you can run older versions of OS X (and thus Xcode) in VirtualBox.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#28Interesting tech but there’s zero explanation of the actual application, so it’s all a little abstract.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#29>I’m saving approximately $84-120 CAD annually. I suppose most of this is eaten up by the need to pay apple $99 per year just to run your own app on your own phone for longer than a week.
This Apple fee is one of the most absurd things they do. Like, how is it even justified—does Apple really spend $99 on infra maintenance and server costs to host your app?
When I buy a device I want to know that I own it, but Apple keeps pushing the narrative that "we LET you use this device in ways we see fit". So basically the customer is just borrowing a device from Apple while paying the full price.
I'm a longtime Apple user but can't shake off this love-hate relationship with the company.
Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
#30>I’m saving approximately $84-120 CAD annually. I suppose most of this is eaten up by the need to pay apple $99 per year just to run your own app on your own phone for longer than a week.
I believe you only have to pay to put your app on the App Store. I’ve made apps for my iPhone before and never had to pay.
It's the "for longer than a week" bit - Unless you have a paid developer account, you can only sign apps to sideload that last one week.
There's some tools to automate "refreshing" the app, but that requires you have some other computer that pushes a new app every week.
The "1 week" restriction is usually fine when you're developing (as you typically are continually rebuilding and updating when actively working on an app) but is clearly intended to avoid being a way to sideload apps without the developer account "nearby".