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Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by ZoF » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:16 PM UTC

ryanlol wrote: post #14

khanan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you cared to read the article, it's a girl, not a dude :)

Except the article does not state that.

Gender doesn't really matter but in the comments the author states 'I'm a KDE _girl_ myself', blogger profile has 'gender: female'.

Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by eric_h » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

arcticfox wrote: post #18

khanan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you cared to read the article, it's a girl, not a dude :)

Dude can refer to any sex, in the US at least.

Generally only in the second person, though. Third person (this dude was pissing me off, or "it's a dude!") usually means male.

Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by rburhum » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:18 PM UTC

ryanlol wrote: post #14

khanan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you cared to read the article, it's a girl, not a dude :)

Except the article does not state that.

Yeah, you have to scroll below to the comments below

> I've never really liked Gnome. I'm a KDE girl myself.

Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by dochtman » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

actionwords wrote: post #10

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Gentoo, is in fact, GNU/Gentoo, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Gentoo. Gentoo is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a mo…

Even if this is supposed to be funny (I can't tell, so I think you may have failed if so), I'd like to correct you and say that what makes Gentoo tick doesn't hinge on GNU at all. We can run on different kernels, different libcs, and coreutils are just a package you install. Might be toybox for all Gentoo cares!

As far as I'm concerned, Gentoo is the most underappreciated distro. I'm a Gentoo dev, but that's not why I'm saying so -- the causal relation is reversed!

Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by 542458 » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

wille92 wrote: post #16

I'm all for rooting my phones, media devices, gaming consoles...but I think I'd stop short of rooting my car. I think back to the Toyota electronic throttle control system bugs--we can hardly trust manufacturers to develop robust automotive software on their own, long before rooting and customization are thrown into the mix. The media system modded in this post _should_ be completely separate from the "brains" of the…

I wonder what happens when you get into a bad crash, somebody decides to sue, and it comes out that your car was running modified software. Would you be exposing yourself to any liability?

Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by theandrewbailey » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:20 PM UTC

Can this car still be driven? Doesn't Tesla kill it as soon as you plug it into an ethernet jack?

Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by wyc » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:22 PM UTC

nickporter wrote: post #8

This brings new meaning to "gentoo is for ricers".

Hilarious context: https://fun.irq.dk/funroll-loops.org/

Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by orik » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

wille92 wrote: post #16

I'm all for rooting my phones, media devices, gaming consoles...but I think I'd stop short of rooting my car. I think back to the Toyota electronic throttle control system bugs--we can hardly trust manufacturers to develop robust automotive software on their own, long before rooting and customization are thrown into the mix. The media system modded in this post _should_ be completely separate from the "brains" of the…

If I recall correctly the part of the system this is running on is independant from anything important and only does media controls. It also speaks to the rest of the car over a network interface.

But still not quite for the faint of heart.

Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

wille92 wrote: post #16

I'm all for rooting my phones, media devices, gaming consoles...but I think I'd stop short of rooting my car. I think back to the Toyota electronic throttle control system bugs--we can hardly trust manufacturers to develop robust automotive software on their own, long before rooting and customization are thrown into the mix. The media system modded in this post _should_ be completely separate from the "brains" of the…

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Re: Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

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Post by mschulkind » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 7:24 PM UTC

542458 wrote: post #25

wille92 wrote: post #16

I'm all for rooting my phones, media devices, gaming consoles...but I think I'd stop short of rooting my car. I think back to the Toyota electronic throttle control system bugs--we can hardly trust manufacturers to develop robust automotive software on their own, long before rooting and customization are thrown into the mix. The media system modded in this post _should_ be completely separate from the "brains" of the…

I wonder what happens when you get into a bad crash, somebody decides to sue, and it comes out that your car was running modified software. Would you be exposing yourself to any liability?

Aren't you already liable for all damage in an at fault accident? If you modified it yourself, I'm not sure there's any blame that can be shifted around.