"Apple could do something good with it, but since they aren't I turned mine into a monitor".

Classic. I bought a monitor for $80, plugged it in and 'It just worked'.

Here you have a hacker, watches one too many apple ads/marketing/astrotrufing doomscrooling, buys an ipad, and... makes a monitor out of it.

I suppose that is the second best thing you can do after being manipulated. I would have just resold it.