Doom. Meh. Pointless. Not practical.

Now, running Doom from a database and acheiving 30 fps, now that’s impressive. Installing linux on your car’s computer, very impressive. Doom on your car’s computer?

Well good job lowering the resale value. I pray they got the bluetooth and GPS to work.

How are you this daft that I have to spend a week to explain my point?

It isn’t like it makes me cool. I was talking about how I enjoy making shit.

And I don’t fucking care about downvotes. I can’t cash in internet points. God, the voting system which Reddit and Digg used was supposed to be for relevancy, not about if you agreed or not.

I don’t know you, and outside of the respect of general life, I don’t give a fuck what some random person on the internet thinks of me. In fact, I don’t want you to know me.

However, if you met me, you would get a solid realization that text is a terrible form of communication.

You cannot see the tone of my voice. You cannot hear the look on my face. You cannot feel my energy without a handshake.

I don’t like toxicity over the fact that all I said was it isn’t practical to install Doom on your car.

But you can hate me all you want. Don’t know why you specifically just want to rage on the internet as if this means a single thing to your life.

The newspaper will come out after I am dead and I will not be mentioned.

We have 8 billion people on this planet who want to judge me, so I won’t bother with doing your “job”.

But I think if you did know me, you might be kinder and recognize I am not an asshole.

I am a prick, and that is fair. Assholes get fucked. So… get fucked. I have to go to work.

And an mp3 player, where you start with a personally designed pcb, solder on the components, design the core logic, write the code, attach an LCD, and print an enclosure. Meh? You build one.

You’re so meh, I bet you think this comment is about you. You’re so meh! Don’t you, don’t you, dooon’t you!

No, I said was asking why the hell they would install Doom. That’s why I was being a prick. Look through my comments: you will see me talk up the achievements repeatedly.

But of all things to install on it? Doom. Not an anti-flock GPS app, or VLC. Nope, Doom. That’s what I mocked.

Why are people just being assholes? I thought we were talking about computers?

So which is it:

Am I a prick because I said that they loaded Linux onto a car’s computer and they installed Doom, which is impractical, but certainly a cool feat to get Linux on there.

But Doom? You can’t shoot imps while you are driving.

You’re rocking a 5090? You doing video work? Mining?

What an ironically meh comment. Did you work on that all night?

Oh no, it sucks, because now I am management. But I do get to design new solutions: that part is pretty dope.

It is just a pain in the ass to get a proper budget.

Dude, J said it was cool.

Sorry, were we wanting to talk about computers? Because you are simply just being toxic. Go touch grass.

No.

Yup. You won.

I know it isn’t. But it is a necessary step. And you should know that as well.

The cool part is that they figured out how to interface with it.

Why is everyone just trying to be the bigger asshole? Are you just begging for it because you think I am the biggest prick?

You can run Doom on a fridge. I am not saying the feat isn’t admirable. I bet it was tough to get Doom to run on a C64. That’s very cool, as is the achievement that this post is about.

I don’t understand the itch in your ass.

No, I didn’t. That shit won’t run Crysis.

Stop being a dick. You are projecting your dickness onto me.

Not really? So OP compiled the Linux kernel to the chip architecture, which was the real feat, and that is admirable, and then played Doom. Cool!

Cool, man. I am getting heat because I am asking what they would do with it, as running a custom OS on your damn death machine is alone dangerous, but let’s test it out by playing the most opened source and well optimized code on the fucking planet… that is the predessor to the real grandpa of FPS… on your fucking car screen… hold up: what is the make, model, year, bluetooth adapter hardware ID or at least which chipset, the wifi chipset, the video chipset, how were each of these compiled to… hold up, what is the CPU used in this year, make, and model of car?

One of these days, people are going to figure out why I said what I said. Not holding my breath.

Edit: to be VERY clear, the structure of the comment was to literally mock you.

Just didn’t want you to assume that I don’t know how to write. And I am not upset. Just being sardonic.

Yeah… to an extent.

Man, don’t get me wrong: for an early project this is cool. I am not trying to rain on someone’s parade.

It’s cool! Super cool! I am glad they had fun.

But dude, I am a systems engineer. You wouldn’t believe the shit I have recompiled kernels for.

That’s the thing. Super happy for them. Awesome! And I am sure they learned some shit along the way, and that is so great!

I deeply encourage people to learn, experiment and create.

But I am getting a lot of backlash, but lets make this clearer:

I have been working professionally in systems, networking, and programming hands on for 30 years. Cool, and neat, and an interesting thing to try when we have a weekend and a 12 pack.

Curious where they hit the brick walls. No details there. Just pics and some base notes.

Props to OP, and I apologize for I guess being a dick for half-shrugging… while I worked today as a systems engineering manager.

So many responses: do you all go to work or sleep or have social activities? Just read? Man, but I am a troll; not you, just what others have said.

You know, I took an old iphone and made it a webserver. Why? I was high, to be honest.

Why? Because the dude on my couch challenged me. It even ran wordpress (though the db was running off my server). Why? Man, we were fucking stoned.

And it was annoying because he wasn’t helping, just there. Like when playing basketball and someone is trying to block your shot and all you wanted to do was play Horse.

Because I read the code? It is wonderful code.

I don’t know about this leet shit, but I have been in the field for 25 years and I do stupid ass mods for fun.

Like, I built an MP3 player from hardware scratch, like I actually started with a custom PCB. My coworker’s kid wasn’t allowed to have his phone in class, the father had a 3D printer, so I threw some shit together.

What fucking sub is this in? You can run Doom on toasters because it is just C, which is like a simple step away from assembly.

This is so fucking stupid. Sorry, I just happen to be a systems and network engineer who also does low level programming. My fucking bad. Great conversation.

What trolling? Have you looked at the code? It is actually quite beautiful.

Ahkay.

A legend in what sense? Doom is so optimized (beatifully, in fact) one could port it anywhere.

Seriously, anywhere.

Now, a legend would be someone dresses up as a maintenance tech for self checkout kiosks and installs Doom to kick on when it normally asks for coupons. Oh my god, not advocating in any way, but that would be punk as fuck.

And on that note, I am going to backpedal into the bushes, but peep out: "Doom is very optimized and built on C. You can port that shit to ship ports. You can run Doom on glasses. You can run Doom on a taco, given the system requirements.

Getting it to run on a car? Meh. I got it running on a TI-85 a quarter of a century ago.

So meh.

I will take a stanza from a song, use the first letter from each word, switch the S to 5 or $ as an example, and make sure I have two uppercase, two lower, two numbers. and two special characters, 8 minimum, although now it runs about 13.

I hum as I type in my password. All I have to remember is how I typed it out.

Come at me, dictionary cracks. The result is bonkers as fuck, but I loved that stanza. I have passwords I have used for 20+ years.

My coworker who sits next to me recently commented to me that I always hum the same tune when I log into my computer. Then he mentioned I hum a different tune when I log into the proxmox.

My sticky note would be like:

computer - Local H

proxmox - Sonic Youth

mail server - Future of the Left

NAS - Faith No More

Inventory - Slothrust

etc.

Man, my friend said he made a web app. He asked me if it would be secure to deploy. I check the front end and immediately check if his formatting was readable.

Two javascript blocks embedded: one was beautified, normal, tabbed out.

The other block was debeautified, which JS developers do so people can’t steal their code (as if that works these days).

I said, “You didn’t make this.”

“Yeah I did!”

“You used AI.”

“But I wrote the prompts!”

"To prompt a computer to steal two separate snippets of javascript from actual developers to achieve the goal.

"Man, this is fine for prototyping, just to demo an idea. But I wouldn’t release this to the public, because if I saw that, I am going to use the tools I already have, and my LLM to speed up the actions, and I will show you how hackable the app actually is.

“You didn’t make a steak. You ordered a steak and got a McRib with carrots.”

He responds, “Does it look ok?”

“Yeah, we can use the css, and we can adjust that as needed, but if your frontend is this sloppy, I wouldn’t release the backend and take customer data. Hell no.”

There is a mexican food truck that will give me two meals worth of food for $10. I haven’t eaten “fast” food in a long time, but I live in the city. There is an indian grocery store that sells samosas, as well as other items, hot and ready.

I would rather hit a Quick Trip or Circle K before I would touch McDonald’s or any YUM! brand, basically any fast food or chain. And I am still not keen on gas station food. I eat from locally owned if I eat out, usually. (grabbing food while going on site at work will cause me to make exceptions: still won’t do McDonald’s. I have done Arby’s if they have a good deal, or Subway has a good meal of the day).