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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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447 points hemant6488 | 1 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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FlyingSnake ◴[18 Jun 25 19:42 UTC] No.44312746[source]▶
Wonderful story!

We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking.

I have a similar story wherein I repurposed my ancient OG iPhone SE and gave it a new life.

https://samkhawase.com/blog/dumb-smartphone/

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tclancy ◴[18 Jun 25 20:23 UTC] No.44312995[source]▶
>We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking.

I'm not sure I follow. It feels exceedingly hard to find new uses for old iPads without doing a lot of heavy lifting. Has that changed?

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