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Person rebuilds an N900 to use a battery eliminator and replace the micro usb port with USB-C, and then sets it up as a media player. Ok but why bother?
It's still useless as a phone, at least in the US, because the 3G network is dead. Sigh. Its UI was also hopelessly slow, as was the later N9's.
Because they want? Not everything needs to have a useful purpose for humanity, people still can have some fun (and develop some skills in the process).
Apparently he's never heard of a hobby before.
Would it be less bothering to you if the phone was chucked in a landfill? Anything that reduces e-waste seems like a positive proposition to me at least.
Why not? It's a great project. You take an old device and use it for something that still makes sense. In this case he is using it as a media player and why buy a new device when you have one around that can do the job?