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Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by doodlebugging »

incone123 wrote: post #60
doodlebugging wrote: post #49

I've been considering getting a new(er) iPad or iMac. I think it might have a better interface with my iPhone than my current pc. I hate to think about product lifespan, obsoleting, etc since I already have lots of devices that aged out. Reading this guy's tale just made me appreciate how awesome it is to be sitting here posting on my Dell T5400 from 2008 running Win7Pro. It still runs even though there are 3 blown c…

Unless you enjoy rebooting, why not run Windows 7 in a VM on newer hardware?

Hmmmm. I had not considered this. I guess I am in a rut with more than one project going all the time so I never took the time to look for other options.

I did buy a new pc several years ago when the T5400 started to have problems on reboot and I found a couple of bad caps. I figured it was only a matter of time. Oddly enough that still seems to be true.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by eterm »

troupo wrote: post #57
pdntspa wrote: post #29

Earlier 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

Do you have stats for the peak requests / second?

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by owenmakes »

mattmaroon wrote: post #71

I get a bad gateway error and can’t load the site and Cloudflare tells me it’s a host error (they are doing their job just fine, the first two bullet points assure me) so hopefully hosting a website isn’t what to do with it.

The tunnel disconnected somehow. No idea what happened, cause the iPad was still running the server correctly, maybe network issue.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by owenmakes »

swinglock wrote: post #65
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: 502 Browser Working Cloudflare Working odb.ar Host Error

Tunnel fell down, I suspect connection issue while I was sleeping. iPad was still running the server locally and unplugged from power.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by pmarreck »

jmpman wrote: post #80
pmarreck wrote: post #51

I wish Apple would just unlock these things once they stop supporting them. It's such a waste of hardware otherwise.

I would love to run Linux on my old iPad hardware. The newest iPad Pro running Linux would probably be faster than my current laptop.

Right? That's exactly the waste I'm referring to.

I hope that jailbreaks continue to be discovered for these. Perhaps quantum computing will "free" the rest.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by owenmakes »

social_quotient wrote: post #56

I’m reminded of this story https://terminalbytes.com/iphone-8-solar-powered-vision-ocr-... 83,418 OCR requests processed over more than a year of operation Up to 1,000+ requests on busy days If you forget about the million other ways to try and solve this issue. It’s an amazing repurposed piece of tech.

Woah, this way cooler than what I did

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by derriz »

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.

It was amazing. Multiple applications running on different servers/machines all working side-by-side on a single desktop workstation. Effectively every GUI application could automatically be run in "client-server mode" (using the terms in the traditional sense not the inverted-X11 sense) without having to write any architecture or OS specific client code.

Although technologically completely unrelated, rich browser applications also fill this niche, and even share warts like the lack of standardized UX behaviors or having issues with dealing with (subtle) difference between "client environment" implementations (different browsers or X11 "servers").

Effectively the web browser became the universal "graphical terminal" in the same way as (in the past) serial TTYs were the universal "textual terminal". Thus X11's "killer app" just slowly became irrelevant.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by owenmakes »

nottorp wrote: post #69
calini wrote: post #68

502: Bad Gateway - Host Error. Hilarious

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.

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by owenmakes »

quietthrow wrote: post #54

Genuine question: 1) I am surprised there is no mention of trading it back to apple? 2) I am sure putting a decent “churn” schedule for apple devices is already been done right? Top of my head I can imagine coming up with one where for of the major product line apple offers (mbp, iPad, iPhone) we can look at the typical depreciation curve and find optimal “get in” points and “get out” points right? How hard could it…

Well, you're assuming there are Apple stores in Argentina (there aren't any). So any trade in would require flying to the US (or nearest Apple store).

Re: What to do with an old iPad

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Post by owenmakes »

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…

I actually delegated DNS to Cloudflare when nic.ar wouldn't take the localhost.run domain!
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