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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: 0.549s | source
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nancyminusone ◴[18 Jun 25 19:54 UTC] No.44312819[source]▶
>I’m saving approximately $84-120 CAD annually.

I suppose most of this is eaten up by the need to pay apple $99 per year just to run your own app on your own phone for longer than a week.

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nfriedly ◴[19 Jun 25 01:03 UTC] No.44314560[source]▶
The iPhone 8 has the unpatchable checkm8 bootrom vulnerability, so while it doesn't say this in the article, the author could have jailbroken the device to run whatever software they want without paying any Apple fees.

That vulnerability was a huge win. It just recently stopped, with the final vulnerable device (7th gen iPad) not getting the iPad OS 26 update.

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1. selcuka ◴[19 Jun 25 02:05 UTC] No.44314817[source]▶
Isn't it an in-memory exploit, though? I believe it would stop working if the phone restarts for some reason.
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2. nfriedly ◴[19 Jun 25 02:12 UTC] No.44314845[source]▶
Yes, that's correct, it's "tethered" meaning you have to basically redo it each time the phone restarts.