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How to refurbish the software on an iPad Mini? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Drag has an old iPad Mini that stopped working. There's nothing physically wrong with it. The screen is fine, the battery is fine, the processor is old, but fit for purpose. Apple simply refuses to allow browser updates. It's not like drag needs the latest and greatest, drag only uses it to browse deviantart and furaffinity. As recently as a year ago it worked perfectly. But these websites no longer serve content properly to old browser versions, so drag needs a way to bypass apple and update the browser.

Drag's tried Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and even Brave. But apparently all browsers on iOS are just reskins of Safari, so none of these worked.

Is there some way drag could maybe install an Android distribution on the iPad? Or get a proper browser on this machine? Drag despises e-waste and also is broke. It's not a must-have, drag has a perfectly good phone and PC. But the larger screen size is good for image browsing, and hacking this machine to fix it would be a nice middle finger to Apple's planned obsolescence.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (14 children)

3rd person reference is annoying. No alternate software. Try a remote access solution and using the browser from a different machine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What do the pronouns have to do with anything?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Personal pronouns of any sort are fine. 3rd person pronouns are grammatically awkward and confusing to the reader when substituted for 1st person/personal pronouns. We aren’t talking about a 3rd party, we’re talking about you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Drag's pronouns are person-independent, which means when drag uses them, they're first person pronouns.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Fucking dumb. That’s not how language works. Grow up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Language is a figment of ones imagination and linguistics behave based on popular opinion, it doesn't 'work' but it's shaped based on popular culture and common beliefs, and every rule now created or represented to give proper outlines to the language aren't always correct and only serve to help outsiders and other linguists establish connections by using similarities of the rules between other languages rather than it's own which is a fickle construct that always changes and can be seen actively changing in every country language or culture

Rant over

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

What...

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