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owenmakes commented on Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads? · Posted by u/owenmakes

Vuska · 3 days ago

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.

I use an iPhone 5 downgraded to iOS 6 (tethered) as an iPod. I love how I can unplug my headphones from my work Mac, plug directly into the phone (no adapter required!) and it effectively mutes Slack without actually muting it. Syncing with the latest version of iTunes still works, albeit slowly.

I also use an iPad 4 (tethered to iOS 6) as an ebook. iBooks works great and I love the pseudomorphic design.

owenmakes · 2 days ago

Got it downgraded, and it is a much better experience. It is actually useful, though I have yet to play around and see which apps I can load on this

owenmakes commented on Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads? · Posted by u/owenmakes

owenmakes · 2 days ago

Update: Downgraded one of the iPads to iOS 6.1.3 (writing from it now). Will try to host a home server on it since I can now SSH into it.

owenmakes commented on Ask HN: What to Do with Old iPads? · Posted by u/owenmakes

leobg · 2 days ago

I had the same problem. All SSL connections are failing. I now run a copyparty server, without SSL, allowing my iPad to stream audiobooks and videos.

owenmakes · 2 days ago

Ok this seems like a great idea. You need to watch/listen everything from the browser though right?

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oblio · 5 months ago

Watch this if you can:

https://youtu.be/E7MzfNTSk4A?si=DRLFJ-yQ2lOVgL9J

Great insight into the situation from a professional economist, his videos are based on academic research but presented in an approachable manner.

owenmakes · 5 months ago

Don't. The video misses out on a lot of key facts from previous governments.