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vortexal ,
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I once saw someone running Doom on a pregnancy tester, so I’d imagine that it could run Linux as well.

flubba86 , (edited )

I saw that too, but it was a bit 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 controller external to the tester stick.

vortexal ,
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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 ,

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.

vortexal ,
@vortexal@sopuli.xyz avatar

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 ,
@vortexal@sopuli.xyz avatar

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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IsoKiero ,

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.

Natanael ,

That was foone

YexingTudou ,

Foone’s great, always happy when her content pops up

solidgrue ,
@solidgrue@lemmy.world avatar

Does a MicroVAX count?

It was the late 90s. We booted it on whatever we could.

601error ,
@601error@lemmy.ca avatar

Definitely counts.

uriel238 ,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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 ,

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.

scubbo ,

Good work, 47. Now get to an exit.

digger ,
@digger@lemmy.ca avatar

I assembled a HeaterMeter for my Kamado style charcoal grill/smoker… It’s built on top of OpenWRT.

yukichigai ,
@yukichigai@kbin.social avatar

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.

Rai ,

Dreamcast emulation was a huge hobby of mine! I can’t believe it worked so well.

BCsven ,

Not crazy or exotic, but the Wii runs linux with a DE. Not very performant, but a neat thing to install and tryout.

gnuhaut ,

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.

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Nothing too crazy, bus information table running Linux Mint:
https://i.imgur.com/EmNolXA.jpg

Some of them (run) Windows. You can identify those based on:
:::spoiler error


<span style="color:#323232;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                               Unhandled exception               |    X   |          |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                                                                                     |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  An unhandled exception occured in TFT_LCD.exe                                      |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                                                                                     |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  Exception = System.AccessViolationException                                        |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                                                                                     |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  Messagr = Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often               |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  an indication that other memory is corrupt.                                        |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                                                                                     |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  FullText = System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write             |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  protected memory.  This is often an indication that other memeory is               |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  corrupt.                                                                           |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  at                                                                                 |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  ...                                                                                |
</span>

:::

lukas ,
@lukas@lemmy.haigner.me avatar

Windows ones are fun. I especially love it when the McDonald’s terminal bug checks, and safe boots into a desktop. Or when the train station terminal app crashes, and an employee restarts the app remotely. Or that time when someone hacked into terminals at a particular train station, and played porn. Some people weren’t amused.

TimeWalker ,

Linux can be run on an Nintendo 64. Mainline Kernel support has been added in v5.12

refurbishedrefurbisher ,

I tried it a few years ago and it kernel panics due to lack of RAM with the expansion card.

AI_toothbrush ,

The nintendo 64 was basically a computer(thats why it was so easy to emulate) but thats still cool.

superkret ,

Don’t most thermostats and smart fridges run Linux?

melroy ,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

thermostats not really.. Smart fridges most likely yes.

GuyNoIRQ ,
@GuyNoIRQ@infosec.pub avatar

Some of the smart thermostats almost certainly do. Also this one 100% does. hestiapi.com

melroy ,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Yea sure those DIY projects will use Linux for sure.

GuyNoIRQ ,
@GuyNoIRQ@infosec.pub avatar

Actually was looking into this some more, and came across this article.

hackaday.com/…/running-linux-on-a-thermostat/

breakingcups ,

On a hard drive. No, not a motherboard connected to a hard drive, a hard drive by itself. Sprite is brilliant.

pacjo ,

Sorry to hijack, but does someone have a link to the talk? Article mentions it, but link no longer works.

christophski ,

Haven’t watched it but could be this: piped.video/watch?v=0Da6OARhgXk

wim ,

Lol I didn’t see your comment and posted almost the same comment.

Otherwise_Direction7 ,

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 ,

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.

lanigerous ,

We have a carbon evaporator that runs linux

superkret ,

Is a carbon evaporator the Bond villain gadget it sounds like, or something boring as usual?

rigglesbee ,

It’s how they got Han Solo out of the Carbonite.

lanigerous ,

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 ,

This is indistinguishable from wizardry to me.

lanigerous ,

It is wizardry right enough - electricity goes in, magic occurs,l and machine goes ping

GreenMario ,

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.

lnxtx ,
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8-bit micro, for example ATmega: video.

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