[HN Gopher] Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to ...
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Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run
Linux soon
Author : tosh
Score : 94 points
Date : 2022-06-04 19:26 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| zakki wrote:
| Original tweet:
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| https://mobile.twitter.com/konradybcio/status/15319631309343...
| clarge1120 wrote:
| Apple has gotten pretty good at protecting the idevice class from
| Linux. There are millions of these old devices sitting on shelves
| unused, still in working condition, and useless.
|
| It should not take so much effort to make our devices useful
| after Apple has moved on from them. There are tons of uses for a
| capable device after the manufacturer has abandoned the customer.
|
| We need Right to Repair now.
| sto_hristo wrote:
| Latest tablets rock some pretty spectacular hardware. It's so sad
| that the horrible OSes completely waste all that potential.
|
| Why is it so much to ask for a tables with an open OS?
| bitL wrote:
| Get a Lenovo M10 X605 and enjoy accelerated video on Ubuntu
| touch:
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| https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/x605/
|
| IMO the only tablet that works well on Linux.
| ngcc_hk wrote:
| That sound interesting. Seems quite low on memory and the 3rd
| generation is 3+128... is only 605 workable. I may give it a
| trial as it is very cheap experiment.
| rollcat wrote:
| I don't know if it's wasted. Depends on what you expect out of
| your computing device. My partner is very happy sketching in
| ProCreate every day, but she'd find a hackable Linux device
| much less useful. I'm pretty much the other way around.
| pessimizer wrote:
| > she'd find a hackable Linux device much less useful.
|
| No she wouldn't. You're not forced to install linux on a
| linux-capable device.
| jonnycomputer wrote:
| Would be cool if I could install some kind of linux on that old
| ipad 1 i still got laying around.
| VWWHFSfQ wrote:
| It's always fun but then afterward I'm left with a nuked iPad
| running elinks.
| digisign wrote:
| Have a ipad 2 here not turned on in ~five years. It could no
| longer handle any websites, not enough RAM. Would be great to
| use it for something, but it has an A5, not A7 or 8, according
| to Wikipedia.
| quag wrote:
| The best use I could find for my iPad 1 is to use it as a
| clock. It's a real shame I can't use it for anything else.
| omginternets wrote:
| I had the same thought! I don't know what I'd actually want to
| do with it, but the tablet form-factor is just begging for some
| creative attention.
| hkgjjgjfjfjfjf wrote:
| margarina72 wrote:
| Looks great, I cannot wait for when they will have a working
| version at least basic so I can give life to a bunch of dead ipad
| that are otherwise perfectly functional if it wasn't for ios on
| it...
| the_cat_kittles wrote:
| maybe my hoarding of old ipads will finally pay off? i have about
| 40 of them if anyone needs em
| lostmsu wrote:
| Are any of them still viable for iOS development?
| mysterydip wrote:
| No. Apps are limited to newer iOS versions, which are limited
| to newer hardware.
| sitzkrieg wrote:
| how the heck did you end up with that many
| tylergetsay wrote:
| my guess is they make iPad apps
| sitzkrieg wrote:
| me too but four zero? imagine the rats nest of chargers lol
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