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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 | 2 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 1.544s | source
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tootie ◴[18 Jun 25 20:25 UTC] No.44313018[source]▶
I have an ancient ipad that is still functional but stuck on iOS 9. Xcode doesn't let you target that version anymore. Is it still possible to compile an ipa for devices out of support?
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daneel_w ◴[18 Jun 25 20:45 UTC] No.44313141[source]▶
It's a painfully sluggish alternative, but you can run older versions of OS X (and thus Xcode) in VirtualBox.
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1. WalterGR ◴[18 Jun 25 21:29 UTC] No.44313435[source]▶
On Apple x86 hardware: Running Windows in VMWare Fusion works very, very well. I can’t see a reason why that wouldn't also be the case for old versions of OS X, though admittedly I haven’t tried.

It’s curious to me that OS X in VirtualBox is sluggish. Both VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox use virtualization…

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2. daneel_w ◴[18 Jun 25 22:32 UTC] No.44313847[source]▶
Software framebuffer. Remaining devices are also emulated.