L1News: 2017 01 31 Big Drives and Other Tech News | Level One Techs

Crock-Pot SCCPWM600-V2 was my first thought. Could also install Linux on one of the abandoned "smart" TV's for upgraded security. I wonder if the TV would have enough gusto to run an emulator....

anon54210716 · January 31, 2017, 7:31am

You need the level of insanity and irresponsibility required to create the robot from Rick and Morty, whose sole purpose is to pass the butter.

SugarPower · January 31, 2017, 8:32am

Great delivery of news! You could put Linux on a fridge.... oh wait, LG and others already have that covered.

What about putting Linux on a kids toy like a Furby, that could be neat. Not sure if Furbies have micro controllers in them or a single board computer though

SDA4TW · January 31, 2017, 8:39am

@wendell why not put Linux in a ceiling fan - you could run suicide Linux on a laptop thats connected via remote to the fan, if you get a command wrong it drops on your head = we can call it the "Bash Enforcement Fan" sell it to microsoft

Freaksmacker · January 31, 2017, 9:33am

My vote ? but they are already doing it :( Not original :(

UnrealIncident · January 31, 2017, 11:04am

"Shimmers" won't work on properly implemented EMV systems. Any cards after 2008 should have iCVV (or dynamic CVV) implemented. Basically it's some form of crypto on the card that changes every transaction. Meaning they'd realistically get 1 or 2 transaction per card. The problem is some banks don't check the iCVV making the whole system worthless but I'm pretty sure Visa and MasterCard will have strong words with them when they find out.

Randomio · January 31, 2017, 11:40am

Well seeing as toasters, fridges, kettles and other tings like that have been blended together why the not have a IOS fruit bowl.

Who wouldn't want a fruit bowl with cameras on it that had custom tweet functionality? I'll happily risk being hacked to have my phone buzz randomly with a tweet from my fruit bowl being all Yo dog dem bananas be ripe. (I'm not sure why the tweet would be that but customisation n crap it's important and RGB gotta have that.)

I'd be armed with the knowledge that when I get home there will be a ripe banana waiting for me.

Atomic_Charge · January 31, 2017, 12:05pm

This episode was something that saved me from complete boredom during the night at work.

Code4phun · January 31, 2017, 12:22pm

Really enjoyed this episode. Also decided to join your forums (: I suggested a Linux coffee maker or a humidor for cigars in the comments

Eddie00773 · January 31, 2017, 12:27pm

Sorry to be 'That guy' but a correction: The hotel story was amended, guests were not locked in their rooms. Only locked out (which still sucks).

MichaelLindman · January 31, 2017, 12:29pm

Welcome to the forum.

A Linux Coffee maker is already a thing, I found this a while back:

It is a collection of scripts made by build engineer to automate most of his tasks, one of them was to open a telnet session to the coffee maker which was running Linux so that the coffee was ready by the time we walked to the machine.

xxx: (and the oscar goes to) fucking-coffee.sh - this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something like sys brew. Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half-caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk.

Freaksmacker · January 31, 2017, 1:41pm

SDA4TW · January 31, 2017, 3:30pm

hmm seems google is shutting down streams of certain news networks ... wonder if it has anything to do with the crack down on fake news?

beaker15 · January 31, 2017, 3:35pm

Ok Wendell for the "You put Linux on that?" Idea I got an idea.

This is a Symbol MC9060 barcode scanner that runs Windows CE, has a SD card slot under the keypad that you might be able to install linux on!

SDA4TW · January 31, 2017, 3:42pm

these are already available on Linux i have one at work

beaker15 · January 31, 2017, 3:48pm

What? Really I have one and I CAN NOT put linux on it? how did they do it?