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Tesla reads a floppy disk drive thanks to Linux

A Tesla has now been tricked into recognizing a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive – and even playing music from a diskette – after engineer Oleg Kutkov plugged the old-school hardware into the car through a USB adapter in the glovebox. No hardware mods, no teardown, no drama: the car’s Linux-based operating system just accepted it. […]