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.
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.
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).
The entertainment system might run something windows based, but there are dozens of microcontrollers that do run linux.
Sure, and for the eight years I owned it before it broke down beyond being worth repairing, I had no problem with those. The infotainment system did kinda suck, but it was a 2014 so I think it would get some leeway for that even if it weren't Microsoft powered.
The emblem just offended my sensibilities. I never pulled it off, though, because the friends who rode with me all knew how passionately I feel about Linux (they mostly also work with it - I try not to proselytize to the disinterested) and found it funny.
According to KBB, the car was worth $8k when it broke down. I put almost double that into repairing the same part of the engine at three different mechanics before giving up. Sadly, for some silly reason, Ford no longer makes the Flex. I think the Explorer is pretty close, but I couldn't find one close enough to test drive. I would have loved to convert my car to an EV, but I wouldn't trust my own work on that front and didn't want to pay as much as would cost to have a professional do it.
Every time I get into my new vehicle - a 2024 Ford Edge - I think to myself how much I miss the Flex. That said, I did get a great deal on the Edge.
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.
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.
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.
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
you either go back to windows, or turn into this guy. There is no 3rd option.
I think, I think, this person uses Linux.
They probably use macos
This is the coolest kid in New Jersey.
I am Spartacus
No. I am Spartacus.
I wonder if he uses arch.
At least one sticker would say so, so he's isn't
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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