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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If a piece of hardware can't run doom is it even hardware?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy how people are still finding new things to cram doom into. I remember when that was a popular thing to do twenty years ago haha

But I'll admit, stuffing it into a keycap is pretty damn impressive, albeit useless haha

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It's the "hello world" for hardware.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Screw the Turing test! The superior test is "Can it run DOOM".

[–] CookieJarObserver -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it literally runs on pregnancy tests

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn't running on the pregnancy test then, and it's not running on a keycap now. Both this and the pregnancy test are someone putting their own hardware into a random enclosure and saying "I'm running Doom on X!"

No, you're not really. Would you say that I'm running Doom on a banana if I put the same hardware inside a banana peel? No, because it's just a case for something else.

If he was running it on the keyboard's existing processor and it had a screen in the key, like Doom on a Mac touchbar, then I would agree.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

He was streaming doom to the pregnancy test. it's a pretty cool hack, even if he's not "running" it on the pregnancy test.