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Hey wait a minute… that car has windows on it!
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.
That’ll literally never happen due to testing and safety requirements.
Yeah, just like how DIYing car repairs and modifications has been illegal for decades now.
…oh wait.
Back in reality, yet again “X but on a computer” is not somehow magically different from “X”, and pretending it is as an excuse to curtail property rights is nothing but authoritarian fearmongering.
You literally cannot mess with your emissions system legally… nor can you disable or modify certain safety systems (seat belts, etc). Software that goes into vehicles requires validation testing. You might be fine doing 1 off things, but there will never be a “flash able” car on the market that let’s you bring your own software, and honestly I’m good with that. I don’t need your massive multiple ton machine bluescreening down the highway or locking up the breaks randomly because you installed the wrong module.
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.
“Linux femboy? Wha- oh nevermind.”
-Me after seeing way too many c/unixsocks posts.
Same, I think about cute boys too much :3
Oh no the tool isn’t working
It is a Subaru tho
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
This is the coolest kid in New Jersey.
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.
I think, I think, this person uses Linux.
They probably use macos
Well you can tell they don’t use arch because there’s no humblebrag sticker
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Probably all of them, at one time or another.
I don’t see any Arch sticker. If it was Arch, it would be the biggest sticker.
