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Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by j45 »

- Surprised UTM wasn't mentioned here.

Depending on the version of iPad, you may be able to get UTM SE on it, which will let you run a virtualized operating system on it.

https://getutm.app/

- There appear to be some jailbreaks too

- iSH would let you install and run local linux packages

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by swinglock »

nugzbunny wrote: post #8

So, if you’re reading this post right now, it means my server is working, and that this site is being served by an iPad 2 from 2012, running iOS 6.1.3 and Insomnia to keep it connected to Wi-Fi. When I pinged your domain it came back as CloudFlare. Did you mean So, if you’re reading this post right now, it means this site is being served CloudFlare. I jest. I imagine you did this to keep your IP address private? Just…

Well, it's telling me:

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Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by KaiserPro »

imglorp wrote: post #9
somat wrote: post #3

Only slightly related, but I recently wanted to show some instrumentation on an old android phone. Now there are many good ways to do this. But I chose none of them, Instead I had just installed termux on the phone and noticed they had some sort of X11 package and went "This, I want this" And honestly, it sort of rocked, despite using X11 for many years I have never actually sat down and just played with a raw, bare…

Networked X11 was a killer app back in the workstation days. "The network is the computer," was totally true in practice. With the rise of Wayland, I feel like we're due for a new networked interaction protocol, maybe rising from the ashes of X and also NeWS.

Oh man it was fucking great.

I had a shitty pentium or mmx, with fuck all ram, my dad however had a DUAL PROC P3 monster just a network hop away.

I could SSH in and run GIMP on his machine and run https://logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer/removal in a quarter of the time.

But that time has passed now. Perhaps web APIs are the best way to do that kinda offload.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by nopelynopington »

quotemstr wrote: post #33

I've tried to use an old iPad as a wall-mounted control panel. The device has continuous power but will occasionally run down its battery anyway, especially when displaying the Home Assistant app. Not consistently reproducible and annoying, but makes the device a poor match for what I want to do with it. It's a shame because it could have had a good, long post-retirement career in this role if it could only run at pe…

Sounds like you're using a low power adapter. I have a few ipad2 that the kids use for things. Even if they have 1% and we plug them in they can be used while they charge.

I'd also suggest lowering the brightness slightly, can make a huge difference to battery drain

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by sbinnee »

imglorp wrote: post #2

This makes me so angry. I have an ipad mini - a wonderful piece of hardware that can do almost nothing useful now, as OP indicates. I would love to run my choice of OS on it and not landfill the device. Instead Apple controls it, like I never owned it. Not only do they control it, they decide when it's time for me to buy new hardware and force me to landfill this one. Why do I need to "jailbreak" my own hardware? Why…

I am in the same boat. I have two ipads, one is probably ipad mini 2 if I remember it correctly and another one is the first ipad pro. Ipad pro is still usable but not fully functional because I cannot upgrade the os and many apps dropped support for old os. Ipad mini on the other hand is totally unusable. I even think it’s in a better shape than the pro one. It feels snappy when navigating. But I cannot use it in any meaningful way.
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