• @[email protected]
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    419 hours ago

    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.

    • @IncogCyberspaceUser
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      29 hours ago

      I’d be interested in hearing what you do with those tablets, if you want to share.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 hours ago

        Sure!

        • 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.