I've had 2 Mazdas in the past. A bit less likely to buy another one now.

Which is ironic for Mazda, because at least like model year 2019 and prior you could literally telnet into the CMU and do all sorts of hacks to it. Whether it was intentional or not, Mazda has enjoyed a bit of a sheen of being kinda hack/maker friendly if you play in that space.

https://mazdatweaks.com/serial/

They didn't intend it, but they should have since they'd probably end up with a better end-user experience ala Rockbox/LineageOS. The community added some cool features and worked around some glaring bugs until Mazda clamped down by specifically nuking the mods on updates. God forbid anyone embarrass them by making their crappy software better, like pausing a stream when "Mute" was hit instead of letting the stream run while muted. How about this? If you used a USB stick full of music it showed the files in FAT order, not sorted by filename or ID3 tags. It would also just randomly forget the resume point, and revert to playing the "first" file on the disk. So instead of Amon Amarth blasting my ears in this case, I had to both create a file named "0000Silence.mp3", and run a special command after every disk update to rewrite the FAT so the FAT order equaled alphabetical order.

> It would also just randomly forget the resume point, and revert to playing the "first" file on the disk.

Is there any hack that fixes this? It's my number 1 annoyance with my Mazda.

You say that like they weren’t told to do this by the executive team.

I think you're assuming more awareness and communication between groups than probably exists.

Executives are necessarily responsible for the people under them, that's part of the job.

It doesn't make sense to let one fuck up from a non-core part of the business destroy your entire perception of them.

This sets the precedent that if you find a way to improve your life using Mazda, you have to worry about Mazda going out of their way to break you.

Like, the literal least Mazda could have done to support their users here was nothing, and they found a way to do worse than that.

Sony is still on my boycott list for all the crap they've pulled in the last decade, so yeah it does make sense.

One thing is different from a pattern of things

I said I was pissed, not resolving a differential equation. Feelings don’t need to make sense in order to be true.