It’s down again btw.
What to do with an old iPad
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Re: What to do with an old iPad
#112I wish Apple would just unlock these things once they stop supporting them. It's such a waste of hardware otherwise.
It's unlocked once it goes thru shredder and is made into new iPad. I wish more people were had common sense and were pro-growth.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Over a decade ago it was common for tablets of any kind to not be able to hold a charge while plugged in when pushed to their limits.
These iPads I'm using are ipad2, well over a decade at this point
HA on my MacBook occasionally pushes M1 to its limits. I suspect it's the dashboards with too many items.
Re: What to do with an old iPad
#114I have an old project with an Esp32 Bluetooth keyboard and an iPad 2. I only later found out that the iPad 2 does not support Bluetooth LE, which is what the Esp32 uses. If anyone knows a good solution please let me know.
ESP32 has bluetooth classic.
I was using this library at the time.
https://github.com/T-vK/ESP32-BLE-Keyboard
Do you know of any other that can act as Bluetooth classic keyboard?
Edit: this could be fruitful
https://community.platformio.org/t/using-esp32-as-a-bluetoot...
Re: What to do with an old iPad
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Over a decade ago it was common for tablets of any kind to not be able to hold a charge while plugged in when pushed to their limits.
Perhaps with some tablets, but the iPad 2 and first gen shipped with an adapter (20W?) that didn’t allow that to happen, in my experience.
It was a 10W. I ran many system-intensive games and only remember battery drain when using a smaller power brick, but never ran Geekbench on loop to test that.
Re: What to do with an old iPad
#116It’s down again btw.
Yeah, had to move back to my apartment, haven't gotten around to doing the setup here
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
wait, top billings on HN brings in 2 hits/sec of traffic? That is an unbelievably low number considering how many sites fall over under that pressure
At one point I had two pages in the top spot on HN: https://mastodon.nu/@dmitriid/114852056319245427 - 20k peak unique visitors - 162k peak requests - 56 GB peak data but most of that data was cached by Cloudflare
That peak is a 24-hour cumulative value if I'm seeing it right?
Re: What to do with an old iPad
#118the site seems to be down; and after reading some comments, apparently it's because you were hosting the site in the iPad itself. looks like it stopped working, so I won't be able to read your post.
Re: What to do with an old iPad
#119Re: What to do with an old iPad
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clearly the iPad ran out of battery! I do hope the site comes back as it has a convenient old ipad jailbreaking summary and i do have this ipad 1 gathering dust somewhere...
It's back up! iPad was still working correctly, but the connection to the VPS had dropped. I suspect network issue.
[Begin whine]
Not that anyone is likely to read this 6 day old thread any more, but I fished my "collectible" iPad 1 out of where it was rotting...
... and the battery is bulging. To the point of deforming the aluminium casing. Time to run and drop it at recycling instead of jailbreaking it :(
[End whine]