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Oh boy, you really can install Linux anywhere. I just installed Linux on the patient's pacemaker, during the operation. They have no idea! SSH works, getting Apache on there now.

2mon 27d ago by lemmy.world/u/RomulusCornflakes in linuxmemes

The year is 2027. Police bust your door down and cuff you. Your pacemaker took part in a ddos attack on the gov servers

It also doesn't have age verification and the patient lives in California.

and it's running a bleeding edge build of systemd and thus currently under attack by social media trolls.

i get the joke but the pacemaker's mostly just a battery. it doesn't have much more radio than the magnetic/wireless charger your phone uses. very, very short range, no wifi at all. it's the other implants that the pace powers you have to worry about.

This needs to be disrupted. I bring pacemaker as a service, fully connected, for a small monthly upfront fee you can enjoy the latest in pacemakers, the i❤️.

i❤️, a beat into the future.

if anyone actually decides to do this, i will literally beat them to a bloody pulp with my cane. yes this is an actionable threat come get me i will get you

[mods if you are going to allow jokes about that kind of unspeakable violence against the disabled you have to let the disabled vent about those jokes. fuck you]

Wait until they do smart pacemakers that can play netflix

There was a guy at defcon that encouragef people to hack his pacemakers bluetooth

Does it run Doom?

There’s going to be a Skyrim release in about a week. The patient will wake up in the back of a creaking wagon.

Yes, but the heartbeat will be synced to the gameplay.

And when you die, you really die.

Not if you hack the matrix

If it does, you should probably go to the E.R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_impending_doom

I have never had an original thought. And I'm 8 hours late.

Doomfibulator

Wrong community. This is for c/selfhosting.

"I self hosted a vital organ 'cos fuck google"

But who is the self who is hosting?

Don't forget to oveclock it so you get more performance

We can boost it up to a full 2 hertz even!

Easy to retrieve and reuse once done

Latest kernel update broke my heart, literally.

DON'T BRICK THE DEVICE!!!

Why take pill, when you can install schnapps?

"How's the driver of the electrodes' GPIO, Doc?"

"Probably won't fit in flash with the kernel and Apache. But I could rewire the electrodes to UART instead, that seems more practical than interfacing with that weird pulse generator."

But can you play Doom?

You should start charging them a subscription not to terminate their heart

@RomulusCornflakes no frigging way wouldn't that need wifi or a cable out to ssh? And that same pace maker supposed to run for decades on the same battery?

Pacemakers can in fact be wirelessly communicated to for diagnostic purposes, and likely do have some type of onboard monitoring system that maybe has a conventional OS. Doubt you could get a normal linux install onto it though, and definitely not an apache server.

Same.

Uses bluetooth.

Run Doom on it!

Killall kills only one.

Fetch or it didn't happen...

Imagine how wild the ride would be if it ran Arch...

Good one. Honestly. Well done.

The pizza box laptop is still goated, IMHO.

Are you alright? Do you need mental assistance?

"vi remains open, and so is my patient!"