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1. madrox+Wa[view] [source] 2023-10-23 21:12:20
>>heshie+(OP)
I can only imagine Mazda's stake in this is that the OSS project is doing something that Mazda would like to monetize. Otherwise why limit a project that's making people fell better about their car purchase?

The worst thing to happen to home automation was companies trying to lock customers into their ecosystem without greater interoperability.

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2. pwilli+nm[view] [source] 2023-10-23 22:19:23
>>madrox+Wa
I can't even use the android auto touchscreen in my miata because you can't make it disabled enough at speed so they just disabled the entire thing. Even the android auto dongles that hack that kind of thing I haven't had success with.

I would bet this is some overzealous safety executive somewhere.

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3. bugger+qY1[view] [source] 2023-10-24 13:00:46
>>pwilli+nm
The Miata is called an MX5 in the UK. I used to own another variant, the Abarth Spider - which is best known here as an MX5 in Italian clothing as it had a few improvements, but was based on an MX5.

The headunit was trivially easy to hack iirc - was based on an old version of Android obviously without security fixes, think it was from a website called mazdahacks? From there I had full AA without restrictions.

No idea if the site is still around but...

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4. pwilli+fUw[view] [source] 2023-11-02 17:54:32
>>bugger+qY1
That's a Fiata ;)

Also, the Fiata is based on the ND1 and so still has the smaller engine, but I'd totally get a Fiata over an ND1.

Mazda hacks is still around but looks like there's some more protection in it than there was a few years ago so it's harder to setup.

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