Great thinking!

I’ll just check exactly who makes the rules, one second…

Man, you won’t believe this, but the old hags that would have their careers end are the same ones in charge of systemic changes.

Who would have thought.

Pfft you call THAT an overstuffed drawer?

I bet you can open it without anything catching the backside of the cabinet, nerd.

Who is going to look at that stuff apart from technicians?

Anyone who owns expensive equipment and is serious about true ownership including all possible maintenance and repairs. Hi, I’m the guy who would be looking at it if it was visible without shitty dongles or 5-figure ASICs.

Tell your employer they could have share prices doing numbers if they did the slightest bit of QOL improvements for anyone remotely like me.

I disagree… Error codes from the OBD port are usually system-specific. They make troubleshooting very easy if you use online resources… I just want a quick readout on the included hardware.

Not a fan of dongles and such. I own a few different ‘Amazon specials’ and the UI feels like hot garbage (given I use them maybe 1-2x a year at most).

I am going to spend my holiday break looking into this, thank you very much!

Shit, it works for my furnace 😅

They don’t want to maintain the software for it.

That’s fine, I just want the error codes displayed on the existing screens. No software necessary for that. Maybe a simple script at worst…

Also, they simply don’t want you to know.

They want it to be known, otherwise there wouldn’t be fail codes output to the OBDII port…

It’s meant for diagnostics only.

Yes. Why don’t they display diagnostics error codes on the existing displays? I’m fine with special display modes and “secret” menu options.

Look at the international stage and you can see the elite are choosing to live in dictatorships across the board.

They are choosing an environment they would prefer.

I’m tired of pretending like what we think or feel matters in the way things play out.

Join me in getting mad at this.

Personally, I’m a firework.

Katy Perry told me so.

Eish, that’s horrible. Knowledge about the tech you paid thousands for should NEVER be a live service.

I’m about to go back to horse and buggy.

I can’t even get my manufacturer to give me a fuse box diagram… what make do you drive if you don’t mind me being nosy?

I have a couple of those OBDongles that pair over BT, honestly the interface leaves a lot to be desired.

I admire your creativity!

Cheers

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My spouse used to work in the industry. I can confirm your take with first hand experience 😮‍💨

I mean if you can afford a 70k/tuition you probably already know how economics works…

Let me ask, why are you sending your child to that expensive college and not a local community college?

Try a Linux install of something lightweight like mint/xfce to eliminate OS bloat.

Steam has a built in compatibility layer you can manage from your library page, so if your laptop could run a game on windows it should easily run it on mint with the spared resources and you’ll have all that spare space from ditching windows crap.

You aren’t supposed to agree with everyone around you all the time.

Grow up or hate the world you share with the rest of the people living on it.

That’s the risk of places like lemmygrad and hexbear.

Best of luck moving forward