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I am now pissed that I have a Mazda. Mission accomplished, legal team, you undid all the efforts of the engineering and marketing departments in one single acti

by otikik 3y ago

I am now pissed that I have a Mazda. Mission accomplished, legal team, you undid all the efforts of the engineering and marketing departments in one single action.

hermitcrab 3y ago
I've had 2 Mazdas in the past. A bit less likely to buy another one now.
aksss 3y ago
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/ https://mazdatweaks.com/serial/
- wuuza 3y ago
  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.
  - daleswanson 3y ago
    > 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.
liquidpele 3y ago
You say that like they weren’t told to do this by the executive team.
- lallysingh 3y ago
  I think you're assuming more awareness and communication between groups than probably exists.
  - sli 3y ago
    Executives are necessarily responsible for the people under them, that's part of the job.
vsareto 3y ago
It doesn't make sense to let one fuck up from a non-core part of the business destroy your entire perception of them.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
  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.
- mlrtime 3y ago
  Sony is still on my boycott list for all the crap they've pulled in the last decade, so yeah it does make sense.
  - vsareto 3y ago
    One thing is different from a pattern of things
- otikik 3y ago
  I said I was pissed, not resolving a differential equation. Feelings don’t need to make sense in order to be true.

by otikik 3y ago

I am now pissed that I have a Mazda. Mission accomplished, legal team, you undid all the efforts of the engineering and marketing departments in one single action.

hermitcrab 3y ago

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

aksss 3y ago

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/ https://mazdatweaks.com/serial/

wuuza 3y ago
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.
- daleswanson 3y ago
  > 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.

liquidpele 3y ago

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

lallysingh 3y ago
I think you're assuming more awareness and communication between groups than probably exists.
- sli 3y ago
  Executives are necessarily responsible for the people under them, that's part of the job.

vsareto 3y ago

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

ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
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.
mlrtime 3y ago
Sony is still on my boycott list for all the crap they've pulled in the last decade, so yeah it does make sense.
- vsareto 3y ago
  One thing is different from a pattern of things
otikik 3y ago
I said I was pissed, not resolving a differential equation. Feelings don’t need to make sense in order to be true.