I know there was some project about this but haven’t heard of anything for a while. Ewaste is such a crime; all of my devices are used or older purchases that are past their “cool by” date. I have an iPad 2 and iPad mini that function perfectly but aren’t supported by apple anymore. Would love to get a second life for them instead of having to get rid of them for no good reason.
Probably offtopic, but are there any popular old android tablets that run linux proper?
Yep! I personally have the Galaxy Tab A 9.7.
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
Do note that even those marked community still have some issues: click the links directly to see the state of the OS.