A battery swap is nothing, and its real easy to turn an old android tablet into something useful. Hell ive got a nexus 10, two 7’s, a gen 3 iPad all doing work for me on the daily.
Home assistant controls, defaulted to pages by the room they are in
Recipe display for Mealie. I can’t have gluten, and we have some family recipes, so storing recipes that worked out well for us is a must
Repurposed as a kids tablet with some educational games and access to the media server
Family calendar for quick view
eBook and Comic reader
Replacement remote for a few devices (Bluetooth IR blaster added into the mix)
Baby monitor (rtsp camera in the room)
Test device for apps I make
Etc.
Usually the only thing needed for these devices is a replacement battery, generally pretty easy to do, just replaced the Nexus 10 battery recently. If it needs a screen or something, its not getting repaired unless its cheap.
Then its a custom ROM and tweak for what I plan on using it for, maybe kiosk it, depending on what its doing.
Those are some nice use cases and very cool that you’ve set that all up while breathing new life into old hardware.
Thanks for taking the time, happy holidays.
Well for me it’s almost the opposite you’d have to lay down a solid salary to get me to use an iPhone as my daily phone so there seems to be some fundamental philosophical differences.
And flagship Samsung looses like 40-60% price in 18months even though nowadays they are fine for 5+years.
you’d have to lay down a solid salary to get me to use an iPhone as my daily phone
Aaaaand it would be exclusively a work phone for me. Ive been around long enough to definitely not trust apple. After all, they steal all the time.
I’d much rather have control over my software than the manufacturer of the hardware, in no small part because of the repurposing I can do (among the many other reasons).
Jup a phone, which is a computer, which can’t easily run arbitrary software just shouldn’t exist, and if it has to I don’t want to use it.
These days you don’t even need custom firmware or root to do most things (except debloat/degoogle). Which I probably should degoogle but it’s a project for a later day (a day where a home server + reasonable backups are already setup)
Already have both here (and inching my way toward a petabyte - I’m ridiculous, not needed for that self host action, even of all your photos and videos. I’m at about 3TB there, and that I cludes my wife’s stuff and mine, along with the DSLR.)
Cameras are different. Professional stuff is built to last forever and can be really good value.
I wouldn’t take a used tablet or laptop for free, though. It’s genuinely worth nothing to me.
More for me then!
A battery swap is nothing, and its real easy to turn an old android tablet into something useful. Hell ive got a nexus 10, two 7’s, a gen 3 iPad all doing work for me on the daily.
I’d be interested in hearing what you do with those tablets, if you want to share.
Sure!
Etc.
Usually the only thing needed for these devices is a replacement battery, generally pretty easy to do, just replaced the Nexus 10 battery recently. If it needs a screen or something, its not getting repaired unless its cheap.
Then its a custom ROM and tweak for what I plan on using it for, maybe kiosk it, depending on what its doing.
Those are some nice use cases and very cool that you’ve set that all up while breathing new life into old hardware. Thanks for taking the time, happy holidays.
Imo buying new phones is like scamming yourself essentially.
My phone has access to my whole life. Anything that isn’t brand new out of the box is way outside what I’m OK with for security.
Ignoring that, iPhones don’t get that discounted and there’s no amount you could pay me to use Android as a phone.
Well for me it’s almost the opposite you’d have to lay down a solid salary to get me to use an iPhone as my daily phone so there seems to be some fundamental philosophical differences.
And flagship Samsung looses like 40-60% price in 18months even though nowadays they are fine for 5+years.
Aaaaand it would be exclusively a work phone for me. Ive been around long enough to definitely not trust apple. After all, they steal all the time.
I’d much rather have control over my software than the manufacturer of the hardware, in no small part because of the repurposing I can do (among the many other reasons).
Jup a phone, which is a computer, which can’t easily run arbitrary software just shouldn’t exist, and if it has to I don’t want to use it.
These days you don’t even need custom firmware or root to do most things (except debloat/degoogle). Which I probably should degoogle but it’s a project for a later day (a day where a home server + reasonable backups are already setup)
Already have both here (and inching my way toward a petabyte - I’m ridiculous, not needed for that self host action, even of all your photos and videos. I’m at about 3TB there, and that I cludes my wife’s stuff and mine, along with the DSLR.)
Well worth the effort imo