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So someone gave it to you and you are complaining about it not doing what you want to do - what a first world whiner....

by z_man 3y ago

not_your_vase 3y ago
I bought my old (back then new) iPad 4 with my money, and despite having a great hardware, its software rendered it e-waste also years ago, without any actual reason beside "buy a new one". Is it better?
- garbagecoder 3y ago
  That's not what the post was about. It was about him wanting to run Linux. Which I don't know if he can do, but I do know you can jailbreak those. Anyway, I think your reaction is the one he was looking for which is "hurr durr $my_os good $your_os bad"
  - not_your_vase 3y ago
    I partially disagree. If Apple wouldn't be so adamant about dropping all support for old iOS versions (especially including forbidding accessing historical AppStore content), this would be a non-issue, based on the first picture.
- richardjam73 3y ago
  My first gen ipad still works and the apps on it mostly work.
  - captn3m0 3y ago
    You had to have installed those apps back then. You can’t install old versions of apps if now, so you’re stuck with the apps you installed then. (I use a second Gen iPad).
  - not_your_vase 3y ago
    What captn3m0 said + try to open Twitter in Safari... (okay, one could argue that it is 50% forced obsolescence from Apple, and 50% utter garbage frontend work from Twitter, made by "professional" "software" "engineers")
    - richardjam73 3y ago
      It is unable due to hardware limitations. Being able to run Linux won't help. It only has 256MB of RAM and a very slow processor.
      - not_your_vase 3y ago
        I don't know why everyone is fixated on running Linux on iPad, what's the problem with the idea of not trashing completely iOS? Opening iPad's bootloader would only result in a bunch of buggy distros with custom 6 years old kernels, which only support 70% of the hw, while having 10% of the original battery life. On a different note, my e-waste iPad 4 has 1GB of RAM, it still can't open about 50% of the websites anymore, and I can't install a calculator on it anymore - while some capabilities are restricted by hw, most of the restrictions are from sw...

So someone gave it to you and you are complaining about it not doing what you want to do - what a first world whiner....

by z_man 3y ago

So someone gave it to you and you are complaining about it not doing what you want to do - what a first world whiner....

not_your_vase 3y ago

I bought my old (back then new) iPad 4 with my money, and despite having a great hardware, its software rendered it e-waste also years ago, without any actual reason beside "buy a new one". Is it better?

garbagecoder 3y ago
That's not what the post was about. It was about him wanting to run Linux. Which I don't know if he can do, but I do know you can jailbreak those. Anyway, I think your reaction is the one he was looking for which is "hurr durr $my_os good $your_os bad"
- not_your_vase 3y ago
  I partially disagree. If Apple wouldn't be so adamant about dropping all support for old iOS versions (especially including forbidding accessing historical AppStore content), this would be a non-issue, based on the first picture.
richardjam73 3y ago
My first gen ipad still works and the apps on it mostly work.
- captn3m0 3y ago
  You had to have installed those apps back then. You can’t install old versions of apps if now, so you’re stuck with the apps you installed then. (I use a second Gen iPad).
- not_your_vase 3y ago
  What captn3m0 said + try to open Twitter in Safari... (okay, one could argue that it is 50% forced obsolescence from Apple, and 50% utter garbage frontend work from Twitter, made by "professional" "software" "engineers")
  - richardjam73 3y ago
    It is unable due to hardware limitations. Being able to run Linux won't help. It only has 256MB of RAM and a very slow processor.
    - not_your_vase 3y ago
      I don't know why everyone is fixated on running Linux on iPad, what's the problem with the idea of not trashing completely iOS? Opening iPad's bootloader would only result in a bunch of buggy distros with custom 6 years old kernels, which only support 70% of the hw, while having 10% of the original battery life. On a different note, my e-waste iPad 4 has 1GB of RAM, it still can't open about 50% of the websites anymore, and I can't install a calculator on it anymore - while some capabilities are restricted by hw, most of the restrictions are from sw...