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We had a fancy coffee machine at an old job that ran Linux. If I remember correctly it was a top of line cafection or zulay machine. One of the ones with a touch screen. Just booted off an SD card as well iirc so probably would have been pretty easy to hack on.

I still find it weird that managed switches run Linux as I generally would think that at those data rates they’d need something closer to the metal but with the magic of HW offloading that’s been a thing in enterprise for a while and OpenWRT even supports some consumer grade ones now.

Some (probably most) ebook readers like the Kindle.

Many newer cars.

TI NSpire calculators.

A slow cooker. https://www.linux.com/news/crock-pot-slow-cooker-wi-fi-smarts-hands/

A cable modem. Specifically the Motorola SB6120 can. Maybe others too.

WiFi enabled SD cards. https://elinux.org/Wifi_SD

A dead badger. http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/installing-linux-on-a-dead-badger-users-notes/

EDIT: Totally forgot about these 2 ham radios. You can run and access Linux on both of these. One is by design as its running on a Pi, the other via mod by R1CBU booting the OS from an SD card.

sBitx v2: https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/sbitx-v2/

Xiegu x6100: https://r1cbu.ru/index.php/home/radio-software/x6100

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Possibly the antenna wasn’t tuned correctly to the channel which you have the router configured to use so you had a higher swr than your radio frontend could handle eventually burning it out.

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BSD, Haiku, Plan9, RiscOS, etc. Probably mostly BSD.

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Debian is only as boring as you want it to be.

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echo c | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger 🫣

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Some of the smart thermostats almost certainly do. Also this one 100% does. https://hestiapi.com/

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Listening and making notional sounds of understanding is a lot easier than actual reproduction and debugging most times though :P

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What are the chances of an official flatpak getting maintained so us lazy folk don’t need to keep up with the GitHub repo/site for when updates drop?

Edit: Also do you have any plans to add NX support?

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For 2.5" SSD I’d suggest a Samsung Evo or crucial mx500. These will top out at like 4TB afaik.

For 3.5" spinner I’d suggest an enterprise class HDD. Specifically WD Gold or HGST. Look up the most recent backblaze drive failure report for some models known to last a while.

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Where did you get 16 years from? The drive says date of manufacture as 2012. 12 years is still a pretty good run for a laptop spinner though.

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