I bought an old iPad2 for the purpose of viewing a Home Assistant dashboard via a web browser. My thinking was that the ability to browse the web was the sole requirement for a tablet for this purpose, but I was wrong: Home Assistant’s web pages apparently require a newer version of javascript than iOS 9.3.5 can handle, but the iPad 2 can only be updated to iOS 9.3.5.

So is it possible to flash a newer OS (e.g., linux) onto an old iPad 2? ChatGPT says it’s not possible because a bootloader exploit for the iPad 2 isn’t known, but ChatGPT is often wrong.

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      yeah, OP made a big mistake by thinking that an old Apple device is more valuable than a paperweight.

      They are infamous because once they reach EOL a perfectly capable device in terms of hardware becomes ewaste because of Apple’s proprietary ecosystem.