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Doom Running on a Toothbrush

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For those without a Twitter account confused by its hostile UI, here is a link to the video https://twitter.com/atc1441/status/1762969015197053110

I'm wondering: IS there a way to get to that video from the linked tweet without being logged in? I could not figure it out.

Thank you for your service of providing the video.

Yep! For now at least:

1. Copy the ID at the end of the URL

2. Replace the xxxxx in this URL[1] with the ID you just copied

3. Go visit the new URL you just created

So in this case, the bypass URL would be [2]

[1] https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=xxxxx

[2] https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=17629748464...

Or just "yt-dlp <url>"

yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) still works pretty well at the current state of Twitter.

They simply used the wrong link, its not really a lack of account or hostile UI

not being able to view a post that a linked-post is replying to is a hostile UI

Can you imagine HNers in any other context defending a change from entirely open to mostly closed that was made purely to force people to create accounts / boost ad revenue?

Should update the OP link to that one

I wish people didn't post twitter links to HN. They're almost always useless now you have to have an account.

I wish people didn't use Twitter links at all. They almost never convey real information, just a quick opinion. If they're useful at all, it's to point to a real article or study or whatever, so just point to the real ultimate source.

Zvi's blog is infuriating for this. He seems to think the whole world revolves around Twitter.

I’ve never upvoted a Twitter submission – even if provokes a good discussion on Hacker News. I don’t think Twitter is conducive to meaningful discourse and I don’t want to promote it. Since they renamed to X, the situation has only worsened with its user-hostile UI and required logins.

Alternatively, here's a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO-Are8053g

Perfect. I remember a DOOM mod that replaced the chainsaw with an electric toothbrush. Obviously this needs to run that mod.

Edit: I think that's the one: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_3:_Mr._Smiley_Head%27s_Safari

Doom has been officially ported to Husqvarna lawnmowers:

https://www.husqvarna.com/uk/learn-and-discover/news-and-med...

You know that "can it run Doom" has gotten out of hand when device vendors embrace it.

There is also a lawnmower mod for doom that you could then run on the lawnmower

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/140710-myhousewadlawnm...

This is a power product manufacturer. I'm sure at some point they considered porting this to an actual chainsaw; the lack of screen must have been a blocker. I guess a lawnmower is the next best thing they could come up with.

With the advent of good battery chainsaws we’re only a few years away from one having a diagnostics screen, and which point doom on a chainsaw will be possible.

> With the advent of good battery chainsaws we’re only a few years away from one having a diagnostics screen

"hear that? that's the sound of.. inevitability." - Agent Smith

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504655

Nice to see it's in keeping with the current trend for horizontal videos being displayed on vertical screens ;)

ESP32 in a toothbrush? What? Why?

To run Doom obviously.

To tell you how many times you've used the toothbrush, of course!

https://youtu.be/V39qPwKpcGg

Best comment!

... preventing you from peppermint induced numbness for the day!

Probably massive overkill to get an easy bt/wifi board to connect to an oled display.

These things are so cheap and the containing "smart" product so marked up everyone reaches for the hammer to drive their thumbtack.

Ugh, the amount of rubbish going into landfill. This sort of thing needs legislating against IMO.

Standard parts are much cheaper than simpler non-standard ones.

In this time and age, the question is 'why not'? If customers want a bluetooth-connected toothbrush and are willing to shell out the extra $5...

I don't think that engineers must design product only because of "why not doing it if we can do it". There is a ethical value to what we design and produce. Some technologies are better than others.

I guess you're right, it's just that there are plenty of people who don't think it's unethical to put bluetooth in a toothbrush...? Even if it means putting in a computer which would've been a nice office computer 30 years ago?

Regrettably, electric toothbrushes now often feature displays, Bluetooth, analytics, and the pinnacle of terrible: DRM/forced replacement of brush heads.

LLM soon, surely.

https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/

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

Does anyone know the actual model of toothbrush?

https://www.evowera.com/en/html/mini_person_norm.html

Interesting! I was wondering what in the world you could do with a computer inside a toothbrush. From the product page[1]:

- Zone reminder for uncleaned aread

- Intense pressure reminder

- Some kind of tracking through an app

- Send each other stickers through the display

Typical case of very niche/almost useful feature set for smart devices. If the zone tracking is accurate, it could potentially help a lot of people who have trouble concentrating on brushing. And some sort of reminder would be great I'm sure.

But bundling all that with an app and a big expensive display is just silly. An indicator LED and haptic feedback for over-bushed areas would be just as good (if not better) usability.

[1]https://store.evowera.com/products/planck-mini-for-adult-sma...

To be fair, that’s a pretty fancy toothbrush!

I'm sorry, that is cool and all, but since 2020 when somebody made doom run on a pregnancy test I am waiting for something as impressive. Even running it on a toothbrush seem "meh" to me in comparison, although certainly a feat.

That person just replaced the internals with an OLED display and controller

That is so disappointing lol, all this time I thought it was running on the actual pregnancy test hardware.

I was disappointed more promptly when reading further into the thing back then... but most people were misled to think it was running on the test hw

too bad that doom doesn't run on any kind of toothpaste

Needs haptic feedback.

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