What to do with an old iPad
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I recently inherited my parents’ old iPad 2. It had iOS 9 on it and was barely usable, in part due to how slow it was but mostly because of old SSL certificates and apps stopping support. But I wanted to give it some life because I hate to see a working machine go to waste. So I asked around and got a great answer: The iPad 2 can be downgraded to iOS 6.1.3 or 8.4.1. Both offer better performance than iOS 9 and have untethered jailbreaks. Once downgraded and jailbroken you can sideload hours and hours worth of games. A lot from that era are IAP-free.
  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    It would be more useful if you could unlock the bootloader and make it boot into Linux (or your arbitrary OS of choice), and be able to drive the hardware. You could get rid of most of the functionality baked into iOS and just repurpose the hardware as a monitor/info display/emulator/photo frame/whatever, without the overhead of yesteryear’s general-purpose tablet computer.