Recent content by gofish

Respectfully, I'm done. Not even reading this. Moving TF on.

I disengaged earlier and they resumed talking about it. I'm not going to apologize for continuing to engage them in conversation, and I'm not going to accept the guilt trip either. I'm done. Let's move on. I didn't want to hijack the thread and that's why I attempted to steer it back earlier...

Apple has been sued for Right to Repair violations in the past, and Microsoft and Google are now both championing it, likely because their corporate lawyers are understandably renowned for their risk- and liability-averse postures. Access to a product's source code and access to a product's...

Look man, I respect your opinion, but isn't there a multitude of functionality in those apps for purely diagnostic, repair, and testing purposes? That has absolutely nothing to do with modification or engineering once a vehicle is in the owner's possession. That's functionality that you would...

Hmm. Kind of sounds like they were compelled to recreate that functionality on their own because... wait for it... FCA made it "proprietary" and squirreled it away from the owners of their products, thus making it effectively inaccessible to consumers, which was my point to begin with...

Changing OEM configuration settings that are built into the vehicle's software and exist as-built from the factory? I'll take that courtroom argument any day, my good sir.

I'm grateful for everyone here who's attempting to overcome this as best as the circumstances will currently allow for, despite all the obstacles.

Charging owners a non-trivial sum of money to arbitrarily "unlock" essential maintenance functionality for three whole days is akin to taxing my constitutional rights. Just my .02.

That's the crux right there. The SGW is a profound impedance and obstruction to simple maintenance and diagnosis, and Ram provides owners of their products with zero facilities to manipulate this module or defuse it while maintenance is being performed. The future implications of this and...

Here's some verbiage from a bill that, while currently dead, exemplifies what "Right to Repair" typically denotes: https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=SB0112A It's not just "repair" in the strictest terms and definition of that word alone; it's also diagnosis and maintenance. I...

For the record, all this AutoAuth/subscription paywall BS sounds like a major Right to Repair violation to me. Prove me wrong.

$500 to the outfit that puts this nonsense to bed and produces a single, integrated tool/software suite that allows me to DIY and tune my vehicle as God intended, without all the Red Team/Blue Team 🐂💩. Does anyone from JScan or AlfaOBD lurk these pages?

The low-profile Spigen mount for the Starlink Mini fits under the rear section of the moon roof power shade by the width of a water bear. You have to mount it pretty close to the window's center width-wise, but the shade opens and closes without binding. Completely invisible and unobtrusive...

Given what I've learned and experienced thus far, I'll probably back-burner it and potentially revisit later. This is not the kind of fate I'm trying to tempt with a truck that I've only had for a few months. Suffice it to say, I'm kind of PO'ed at the Alldata documentation on these topics...

Probably not. Wishful thinking for sure.