All 3 billion Android devices in the world. It's pretty crazy when you think about it. Also 96% of the top 1 million web servers and all of the 500 fastest super computers (excluding quantum) in the world.
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Quantum computers aren't fast, they're very slow.
Eventually, if things keep progressing, they'll be able to do certain things like factoring primes faster than conventional computers. But, the clock rate will probably always be abysmal.
What are the quantum computers running? Also, please tell me they can run Doom.
afaik quantum computers don't run operative systems, they are programmed to do exactly one thing.
And no, they can't run Doom.
Are they really computers then?
Think of them like graphics cards. They are more of a component to do calculations that the cpu either can’t do, or would take too long to do. So calling something (the whole shebang) a quantum computer is like calling a computer training AI an ML Server.
In the classical sense, yes.
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If Doom can run on pregnancy tests and IKEA light bulbs, it must be possible to run it on the most advanced kind of computer known to mankind I guess
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Remarkable eink tablets. Buried deep in the settings they actually give you the root password so you can SSH in. Also, it comes with an epic .vimrc file.
THEY DO?!? NO WAY!
But, the software they ship is completely closed source and displaying anything on the screen requires hacking the binary (each software release). They have have been the opposite of helpful to open source for the last few years and have stooped to a cloud company trying to collect your data.
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Yup. Have been running an FTP server on my Kobo Touch over its WiFi. Kinda neat.
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Kindles too. You can jailbreak them and get a shell. They're so much more useful when they're jailbroken. They can read multiple other formats, they can get books from a fileserver on your local network, the jailbroken reader app is better, etc.
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Robot vacuums. Some of them you can root and install the opensource Valetudo.
Yes!! I can SSH into mine! Just fuggin wild that they run Ubuntu =-D
Great. Time to update Nginx on my vacuum.
Wow, this open source firmware is cool
The idea of installing Linux on a vacuum...
The vast majority of the web, really.
Nearly all of AWS.
Really it's the backbone of the modern tech world.
Yeah, it used to be just web servers in a data center. Bigger systems used mainframes. Consumer electronics used custom RTOSes or other custom boards. Now it's everywhere. It's used in the biggest systems, like the computers that power virtually every Google product, and the smallest systems. It's almost not worth it not to use Linux when building a tiny device because it makes the dev cycle so much shorter.
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I have been making interactive dioramas with Linux.
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while.
Thanks! I have been having fun experimenting with them.
The lego mindstorms ev3 robot
Bruh it takes like 40 seconds to boot my lego brick 💀 im not even kidding
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Cars. Either entertainment system or navigation or more..
BMW has quite the list of licences for opensource libraries and Linux in the about section of the car-menu.
And more and more network equipment.
So we can download the sources?
BMW requires you to go the written notice path and they send you a DVD with the sources
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Passenger information systems in public transport. Some might run some kind of embedded windows, but most run on Linux. Certainly here in Czechia, but I believe it's common at east throughout the Central Europe.
The Hanz Niemann buttplug probably
Pretty much everything that's running on a microprocessor (i.e. larger than a microcontroller) and not from Microsoft or Apple.
The thin piece of electronics in my hand that I'm typing this on
- The International Space Station (ISS)
- The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket
- My Samsung Phone
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Passenger Entertainment Systems in Boeing 737 MAX.
Many cars are powered by a flavor of Linux called AGL - Automotive Grade Linux
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My lump charcoal smoker.
Parrot's older consumer drones. They took really long to power up, and ran very hot.
I believe you could telnet into them too, although that was later discovered to be a bug and not a feature
I was product manager at a company that made PTZ cameras based on Linux. The company was acquired a few times but still actually manufactures them in Minnetonka MN. Kind of fun working at a place the had development, manufacturing, support and engineering in one building.
https://www.legrandav.com/Products/Cameras/Videoconferencing%20PTZ%20Camera/RoboSHOT-12E-USB/
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The reMarkable runs on Linux too! It's an eink paper tablet
I know at least few components in the power grid that run on top of linux
Some old Archos media players, such as the 605 WiFi, run a locked down Linux according to Wikipedia.
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