Is it possible to flash a new OS onto an old iPad 2?
I bought an old iPad2 for the purpose of viewing a Home Assistant dashboard via a web browser. My thinking was that the ability to browse the web was the sole requirement for a tablet for this purpose, but I was wrong: Home Assistant's web pages apparently require a newer version of javascript than iOS 9.3.5 can handle, but the iPad 2 can only be updated to iOS 9.3.5.
So is it possible to flash a newer OS (e.g., linux) onto an old iPad 2? ChatGPT says it's not possible because a bootloader exploit for the iPad 2 isn't known, but ChatGPT is often wrong.
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I think its reasonable to assume a perfectly functioning, yet old, piece of hardware could be repurposed. We have all just grown accustomed to mega corporations' design of planned obsolescence; when maybe we shouldn't be.