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Re:Who makes the most reliable new cars? by raxxorraxor on Thursday November 30, 2023 @10:46AM (#38474906)
We also know that any electronic stuff is very often designed to not be reparable at all. While there are standard interfaces for standard diagnostic data, you rarely can skip dealing with a very closed stack of software, intellectual property around a thick shield of armor.

This is why you get things like heatable seat DLC.

Re:Who makes the most reliable new cars? by underlipton on Friday December 01, 2023 @08:52AM (#38486634)
I would like people to get into the habit of spinning up homebrew firmware/software to deal with this. Rockbox for your Ford. It's a heated seat, Michael, how much could it cost? Ten hundred lines of code?