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owenmakes commented on What to do with an old iPad odb.ar/blog/2025/09/05/ho... · Posted by u/owenmakes
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 curious why it wasn't mentioned in the blog post? My original question was going to be if your ISP may have a problem with your set up (giving it's on the front page of HN and will be experiencing some traffic).
I actually delegated DNS to Cloudflare when nic.ar wouldn't take the localhost.run domain!
owenmakes commented on What to do with an old iPad odb.ar/blog/2025/09/05/ho... · Posted by u/owenmakes
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 be. I agreed there is a friction and activation energy needed to going down to the Apple Store and trading it in but you could get a new device every 1-2 years and keep largely churning the same out of money plus a slightly more to top up (call it premium to avoid the anger /pain inflicted by not doing it.)
What am I missing here ?
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).
owenmakes commented on What to do with an old iPad odb.ar/blog/2025/09/05/ho... · Posted by u/owenmakes
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.
owenmakes commented on What to do with an old iPad odb.ar/blog/2025/09/05/ho... · Posted by u/owenmakes
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
owenmakes commented on What to do with an old iPad odb.ar/blog/2025/09/05/ho... · Posted by u/owenmakes
owenmakes commented on What to do with an old iPad odb.ar/blog/2025/09/05/ho... · Posted by u/owenmakes
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.
It does rely on redis, but it's basically the same idea.