Hey wait a minute... that car has windows on it!
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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Windows on Linux though. Guy probably has Wine in his cup holder.
Police pulled him over for drunk driving but he insisted that what he had was not wine, but in fact an assembly of protons.
How does Microsoft manage to be both ahead and behind the curve? A decade before Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, they already were doing the same thing, and somehow blew it?
Windows CE in general blows me away how the underlying tech is fundamentally the same as modern smartphones (system is a ROM, had ARM support, goes to sleep by default) and Microsoft was still too slow to react to the iPhone. God I miss my PDA.
Most cars already run on Linux
Ironically, my cars don't run Linux for the same reason my computers do: I'm militant about protecting my property rights and privacy, so I refuse to have any car new enough to have "infotainment" because it's all closed-source and Tivoized. It's effectively hostile, despite the Linux kernel at the bottom of it.
I'll buy a car made after the mid-2000s when I can re-flash the whole thing with non-DRM'd community-supported software, and not a minute before.
I mean; there's nothing stopping you from using a car from an earlier era; and bodging in an Android Tablet into your dashboard as an infotainment system.
The thing doesn't need to be concerned with your climate controls or anything else on your CAN bus for security reasons anyways. So you can leave those controls as they are and just let the tablet replace your Radio effectively for 100% DRM free media enjoyment with your favorite fully rooted and flashed tablet running whatever FLOSS version of Android firmware you like.
Personally there's just certain controls in a car I firmly believe should NEVER be digitized anyways.
I’m in the same boat. So much that I just paid a bunch to replace the transmission of my 2012.. I could probably have not done that and invested in something newer, but I don’t… want that…
I’ll stick with just getting more of this exact car when this one isn’t repairable anymore (it has telemetry, but it can’t be accessed without plugging in directly, which isn’t typically a huge concern I have) Or when they can be flashed, as you say. Like I’d love to have an EV because I rarely drive far, but I absolutely won’t buy a spymobile to get one.
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Until recently, I had a Ford Flex.
The only thing I didn't like about it was the proud "powered by Microsoft" emblem (and its implications).
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To a degree yes, but this madman probably has the ECU running Linux.
Linux is not a real-time OS*. For a car ECU, something like Speeduino would be a more appropriate choice.
(* Or wasn't until a week or so ago, at least. https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-years-later-real-time-linux-makes-it-to-the-kernel-really/)
That’s the joke 😉
You could certainly do it but let’s hope that fuel injection timings and realtime system response aren’t that important to you.
https://lwn.net/Articles/816298/
Worked with the guy, he was a true kernel monster.
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Well you can tell they don’t use arch because there’s no humblebrag sticker
This? This the car of a Slackware enjoyer.
"Linux femboy? Wha- oh nevermind."
-Me after seeing way too many c/unixsocks posts.
Bold of you to assume a lemmy user would drive
I'll have to get linux stickers for my bike instead. Maybe I should install a hub dynamo and boot a pi zero with my pedal power every time I ride. Linux on my Linux bike.
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Are you even a Linux user if you don't randomly wonder what operating system the person in front of you in traffic prefers? It's a good thing that this person says "wonder no more."
I actually don't care to be honest.
I wonder if they have been a user since 1991. If so that's pretty impressive. Given that would be the same year Linus send his infamous newsgroup email announcing his work to port Minix.
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Maybe it's cause I'm a dad now but this really resonates with me.
He has to be aware how niche his passion is, but he does it anyway in defiance.
where in jersey was this taken? i want to find this car
edit: not for sexual purposes
edit: not for sexual purposes
That's clever, I like it
I hope he's gone and cut the telemetry from this car... if not, I'd say poser.
If I had a car it would probably look like this
Real Linux aficionados don't have cars; that would require leaving the basement.
I'm using Arch btw
This is the only way Bill Gates can go to the grocery store unaccosted.
I wonder what distro they use 🧐
Probably all of them, at one time or another.
Im willing to bet that the conversation that would start if you were to ask would only lead to regret
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I don't see any Arch sticker. If it was Arch, it would be the biggest sticker.
you either go back to windows, or turn into this guy. There is no 3rd option.
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This is the coolest kid in New Jersey.
I think, I think, this person uses Linux.
They probably use macos
I wonder if he uses arch.
At least one sticker would say so, so he's isn't
I am Spartacus
No. I am Spartacus.
I don't know who it is but they seem less inclined to talk about Linux than most users
Just tapping that linuxsy
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