Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by ntoskrnl | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

ntoskrnl·

Let's say I have an iPhone 6 that stopped receiving updates. What do you suggest I do with it:

- landfill

- install Linux

- something else?

View on HN

- The back camera is probably better than your current webcam

- It can make a good pet or baby monitor (several apps that do this have extremely long support schedules because they know people will reuse old phones)

- If you’re going to dispose of it, return it to Apple for recycling rather than landfill

Recycle it with Apple.

I don’t understand this desire to keep arbitrary old devices around. I only do it for as long as I need a device for testing (iOS dev).

They simply have no value past this.

Use as an iPod, it's got a headphone jack which is rather nifty, also still works fine as a basic phone, you can have the battery replaced quite cheaply.

And what do I do with my new phone? Just leave it there while I use the older iPhone? No. Realistically you'll use the new phone. The old iPhone is still not going to be used. So what do we do with them now? We install Linux or we just trash it?

Sell it or repurpose it, just like anything that gets replaced (fridge, blender, car, etc..)?

Just because your old device doesn't support linux doesn't mean it's a brick. (Surely you were aware before you bought the device that it doesn't support linux).

> - something else?

Recycling it would benefit the planet more right?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com