An Enterprising Ioniq 6 Driver Got DOOM Running on Center Console - FuelArc News
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Bahaha, imagine the used listing for this Hyundai Ioniq 6. “Yes, it runs (DOOM) and drives.” Basically, there are two universal laws in this world: A Hyundai Ioniq 6 driver on Reddit says they finally hacked and rooted their center console after about six months of messing with it, then started treating the infotainment system […]

Automobile dashboards now join Nokia phones, blood pressure cuffs, and battery packs made from potatoes: they can all run DOOM!

  • ranandtoldthat@beehaw.orgEnglish
    281·
    3 days ago

    Sure it is. Doom is a very optimized program with available source that for almost 20 years has served as a benchmark for demonstrating the ability to hack a piece of electronics with a display.

    • KayLeadfoot@fedia.ioOP
      13·
      3 days ago

      (This is the spirit of the post: Doom is a fun and silly demonstration of the software being hackable.)

    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
      2·
      3 days ago

      They can get it to run on everything. We don’t need to hear about every damn toaster getting Doom on it.

      • B0rax@feddit.org
        5·
        2 days ago

        It is not about the thing having enough power to run it. It is about hacking it to be even able to run arbitrary code on it.

      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
        31·
        3 days ago

        It’s not interesting to you that a car that’s been around for 4 or 5 years only just now had Doom run on it for the first time? It took a long time to hack, so that’s kinda newsworthy