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In May,Spotifyannounced the coming death of its in-car music player, the Car Thing.

So that’s a bonus.

Spotify car thing with ryen russilo podcast on screen

So grab your USB cable, open up that console, and let’s.

Here’s three things you’re able to do to bring your Car Thing back from the Dead.

“It’s Alive!”

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Some are now calling them ‘DeskThing’ instead, to reflect their new desk-based fate.

To learn even more about DeskThing, check out theDeskThing webpage at deskthing.app.

Once you’ve installed DeskThing, you could start installing your apps.

Car Thing being used on a desk

Sorry, again, DeskThing out of the trash.

One of the coolest is thismacropad hack in the car-thing-reverse-engineering repository.

No more key combinations for you, traveler of the DeskThing hacking seas.

CarThing Macropad

BONUS: Play Doom

but can it… of course it can.

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