What do you do with your old iPad mini?

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• cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hot take, but If it’s old and/or no longer useful to you, then I would consider selling or trading it in. Apple products hold value better than a lot of other electronics in the same category and you might as well just take the cash and put it towards other homelab upgrades

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why Apple hasn’t mad the iPad mini a CarPlay screen is beyond me. You can do it with an android tablet but not an iPad.

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• jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I use mine as a home assistant dashboard.

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• foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  iPadOS has really a really good music production ecosystem. I bought Loopy Pro and 3D printed a mount for my MIDI keyboard. It’s now a dedicated MIDI controller / looping interface.

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• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  • Convert it to a kitchen recipe display device and retrieve recipes off of your server.
  • Home monitoring panel
  • Video/Photo frame
  • e-reader

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  HomeAssistant dash

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• LordFireCrotch@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t have an iPad mini so I can’t help you

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My 6th gen iPad is the only Apple product I own. It’s also the only device that refuses to connect to my WiFi. I was going to make it a wall panel, but it’s shit.

  My wife bought the $100 digital wall calendar from KMart and it hooked up to my CalDav server. I was surprised that it showed zero dark patterns. No vendor lock-in. No ads. No spying.

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• CorvusCornix@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Like others here, I use mine as a sort of “kiosk” for smart home stuff by using Guided Access to lock it to a single app. If you have a Mac you could also put it into real single-app mode via Apple Configurator policies, but it’s more time-consuming to set up and if the app stops working there’s no way to fix it short of restarting the entire iPad (whereas you can end Guided Access, restart the app, and start Guided Access again).

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• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Previously I used it as a home assistant panel, but everything is so automated no one ever touched it (except the kids, annoying the ever loving crap out of mom).

  Now its magicmirror as a calendar display

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• sunbeam60@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Client screen for Air Manager.

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait for someone to crack the bootloader and then someone to get a Linux/BSD working on it and/or code up a bare-metal web view/SDL/uxn/PICO-8 that runs on it. That way, when the App Store stops supporting OS versions that run on it, it can still be reused as generic hardware.

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• combatwombat@feddit.online@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have one up that shows transit arrival times for the nearest bus stops.

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• Racoonwithbenefits@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mine was so slow it could barely run a website anymore

  But monitoring websites - maybe on LAN - could be useful

  Or home automation

  Media controls?

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There was a point where I just had the browser opened to a monitoring dashboard.

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