Something like a thermostat or a smart fridge -- have you seen any? If so, please share with a video or two.
christophski 14 points 3 years ago
Haven't watched it but could be this: https://piped.video/watch?v=0Da6OARhgXk
TimeWalker 61 points 3 years ago
Linux can be run on an Nintendo 64. Mainline Kernel support has been added in v5.12
refurbishedrefurbisher 19 points 3 years ago
I tried it a few years ago and it kernel panics due to lack of RAM with the expansion card.
AI_toothbrush 2 points 3 years ago
The nintendo 64 was basically a computer(thats why it was so easy to emulate) but thats still cool.
Otherwise_Direction7 47 points 3 years ago
There is actually a way to run Debian on Lego Mindstorms toy robot kit using ev3dev
Tho I never owned one of these kit, it still pretty cool looking
AI_toothbrush 3 points 3 years ago
Actually the os on it by default is also a bare bones linux installation. Another lego brick thats really cool is the rcx which was released in 1998 and someone ported the jvm to it.
Evil_Shrubbery 12 points 3 years ago
Idk, needs more e-waste :(
Evil_Shrubbery 1 point 3 years ago
I would tell the government to tell Samsung, but they aren't as big (and/or they 'like' Samsung more).
GuyNoIRQ 43 points 3 years ago
We had a fancy coffee machine at an old job that ran Linux. If I remember correctly it was a top of line cafection or zulay machine. One of the ones with a touch screen. Just booted off an SD card as well iirc so probably would have been pretty easy to hack on.
I still find it weird that managed switches run Linux as I generally would think that at those data rates they'd need something closer to the metal but with the magic of HW offloading that's been a thing in enterprise for a while and OpenWRT even supports some consumer grade ones now.
Some (probably most) ebook readers like the Kindle.
Many newer cars.
TI NSpire calculators.
A slow cooker. https://www.linux.com/...
A cable modem. Specifically the Motorola SB6120 can. Maybe others too.
WiFi enabled SD cards. https://elinux.org/Wifi_SD
A dead badger. http://strangehorizons.com/...
EDIT: Totally forgot about these 2 ham radios. You can run and access Linux on both of these. One is by design as its running on a Pi, the other via mod by R1CBU booting the OS from an SD card.
sBitx v2: https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/sbitx-v2/
Xiegu x6100: https://r1cbu.ru/...
Natanael 3 points 3 years ago
managed switches run Linux as I generally would think that at those data rates they'd need something closer to the metal
They might be running userspace networking
https://www.linuxjournal.com/...
Also hard drives. No, not like that.
GuyNoIRQ 1 point 3 years ago
It doesn't have as much to do with where the network stack is running, but that they're leveraging hardware offloading. Their CPUs generally aren't powerfull enough to switch packets at gigabit speeds let alone on many interfaces at gigabit or multi-gig speeds. Its by leveraging ASICs and maybe even some using FPGAs for hardware offload that they can switch packets at line rate. I understand how they do it, I still just find it kind of weird and cool.
I didn't list HDDs as someone else had mentioned that already. I was just listing a few devices that weren't mentioned in other comments yet.
insomniac 1 point 3 years ago
Software defined radios are kinda a stretch. The radio hardware isn’t running Linux. There’s a receiver that converts the signal to digital and then a Linux computer processes the signal. Basically the exact same thing as my computer having a radio receiver plugged in to it but packaged up as a standalone thing. If that counts, my keyboard runs Linux.
zikk_transport2 37 points 3 years ago path: 0 3308866, hotness: undefined, score: 37, children: 1
sorrybookbroke 36 points 3 years ago
The leapfrog leappad used to run linux. People were able to hack them in order to run full on operating systems, by rooting their children's learning toy
yukichigai 12 points 3 years ago
You still can. Not only that, you can install emulators and Retroarch, the thing is capable of running consoles up through PS1 games, though the button mapping for most games is a bit awkward.
Also !sbcgaming if you're into that sort of thing.
Eavolution 2 points 3 years ago
I loved that thing as a kid, I'd completely forgotten about it!'.
gnuhaut 34 points 3 years ago
Read an article some years back about someone installing Linux on a hard drive.
Not on a computer with a hard drive. On the embedded ARM core inside the hard drive. One of them anyways, I think this particular hard drive had three CPUs inside it actually.
yukichigai 25 points 3 years ago
The Sega Dreamcast. Live CD distributions of Linux were really taking off around then, so some enterprising sorts decided to see if they could get Linux running on the Dreamcast. They partially succeeded, though accessing some of the hardware was... dicey. That said, the Dreamcast had a native keyboard adapter and they managed to get support for that going pretty quickly.
Unfortunately the project kind of stagnated, but you can read up on more of it on the sourceforge project page.
GreenMario 21 points 3 years ago
The scale at my job that prints labels for price per pound stuff when it boots shows Linux boot stuff.
Once installed Linux on my iPod 5G. Honestly wasn't worth it cuz it cut battery time in half and only added a couple extra codecs it could play. Doom was strange on the scroll wheel.
user224 20 points 3 years ago Some of them (run) Windows. You can identify those based on:
Nothing too crazy, bus information table running Linux Mint:
Some of them (run) Windows. You can identify those based on:
:::spoiler error
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| Unhandled exception | X | |
| | | An unhandled exception occured in TFT_LCD.exe | | | | Exception = System.AccessViolationException | | | | Messagr = Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often | | an indication that other memory is corrupt. | | | | FullText = System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write | | protected memory. This is often an indication that other memeory is | | corrupt. | | at | | ... |
:::
flubba86 29 points 3 years ago
I saw that too, but it was a bit misleading. The pregnancy tester for some reason had a pretty high resolution monochrome OLED display, so the guy used the tester's display to show the Doom graphics. The actual device running Doom was a more powerful microcontroller external to the tester stick.
IsoKiero 17 points 3 years ago
It wasn't even original display. Original display wasn't "pixel based", it just had couple of segments on a LCD which display pregnant/non pregnant texts and some other info. So it was (is) just a doom on a microcontroller+OLED in a pregnancy test case.
vortexal 1 point 3 years ago
Well, I tried to look for the video I saw but couldn't find it. All of the videos I could find have the game in monochrome with a high frame rate, while the video I remember watching looked similar to the GBA version but with a significantly worse resolution and frame rate.
vortexal 1 point 3 years ago
After looking through some other Doom on "insert device here" videos, I couldn't find it but I found one where the gameplay looks similar (even though it's a completely different device and the game is clearly modded). The video is called Doom 2 on optimus maximus.
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vortexal 1 point 3 years ago
I'll have to re-watch the video again if I can find it but I'm pretty sure that the video I saw was a different one because the one I remember watching had a pixelated screen screen with a low frame rate.
flubba86 1 point 3 years ago
Well the one I'm thinking of, it had something like a 64x128 monochrome OLED screen, that fits the description of "surprisingly high resolution" for a pregnancy tester, but Doom would still appear as a "Pixelated screen" like you described. Its probably the same one we both saw. Either way, there is no microcontroller inside that device capable of running Doom, so an additional external microcontroller was attached to run the game itself.
YexingTudou 2 points 3 years ago
Foone's great, always happy when her content pops up
GuyNoIRQ 6 points 3 years ago
Some of the smart thermostats almost certainly do. Also this one 100% does. https://hestiapi.com/
GuyNoIRQ 1 point 3 years ago
Actually was looking into this some more, and came across this article.
wim 19 points 3 years ago
A hard disk. Not boot from a hard disk, but the hard disk controller is actually made to run Linux: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1
marquisalex 9 points 3 years ago
Rockbox, by any chance? I have fond memories of playing doom with that scroll wheel...
Rand0mA 3 points 3 years ago
Pretty sure it was just called iPod Linux.
Just looked.. looks like rockbox is the successor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPodLinux
lanigerous 15 points 3 years ago
We have a carbon evaporator that runs linux
rigglesbee 18 points 3 years ago
It's how they got Han Solo out of the Carbonite.
lanigerous 3 points 3 years ago
It's definitely not as exciting as it sounds. It applies a large current through some graphite rods which causes the carbon to evaporate & deposit on a sample sat underneath. It's used to coat electrically insulating samples with a conductive layer of carbon for electron microscopy.
PraiseTheSoup 3 points 3 years ago
This is indistinguishable from wizardry to me.
lanigerous 1 point 3 years ago
It is wizardry right enough - electricity goes in, magic occurs,l and machine goes ping
digger 13 points 3 years ago
I assembled a HeaterMeter for my Kamado style charcoal grill/smoker... It's built on top of OpenWRT.
LainOfTheWired 11 points 3 years ago
Didn't they get at least the kernel running on a Nintendo 64
uriel238 10 points 3 years ago
Syringe drivers exist that are on-line devices. I half expect the first IoT murder to be by someone hacking a syringe driver filled with something vital (say insulin) that's plugged into the victim's IV.
I don't know if such devices are capable of being jailbroken and installed with Linux, but why not?
Aceticon 4 points 3 years ago
At the level of microcontrollers there is an entire range with the necessary radio HW and enough computing power and memory to have WiFi and a TCP stack but not enough to fit Linux (stuff like the esp8266, which has only 80KB user data memory).
Those things essentially run just the one application on top of some manufacturer provider libraries (no OS, though if you really want to there's an RT OS) and which can be something that gets commands via the network and activates some hardware via GPIO ports.
For example, smart LED lamps that can be controlled from a smartphone are made with this kind of HW.
Mind you, recently somebody managed to get Linux to run of a top range model of the most recent of these things (an ESP32-S3).
So I wouldn't presume that a syringe driver can be made to run Linux, given that it's functionality is simple enough to be implemented by a simple program that can fit in that kind of microcontroller.
sounddrill 6 points 3 years ago
Not as impressive but I got a oneplus one that:
- Runs lineageOS 20, thanks to UL and someone on xda
- Runs kernel 6.3 with postmarketOS, thanks to a whole bunch of people working on the kernel
blindbunny 5 points 3 years ago
Didn't someone get a cuecat working? It's been a while since I've seen it.
gamey 4 points 3 years ago
I haven't done it myself but I own a Pinephone (Linux phone) and that completely isolates the modem to prevent closed source code on the main OS and apparently that runns Linux, not sure if it counts because it's technically Linux already but someone hosted his blog on that and wrote about it!
ViciousTurducken 4 points 3 years ago
Back in the day some iPhones could run janky forms of Android/Linux. I don't think it ever got to daily driver status but it was surprisingly feature complete.
MonkderZweite 3 points 3 years ago
Did anyone manage to hack a CD/DVD drive to run Linux on it?
ProgrammingSocks 1 point 3 years ago
My iMac G3 is running Debian 6!
ProgrammingSocks 1 point 3 years ago
The computer is older than me :)
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