Comment on s there a way to make an interface or to use an app like Signal so your texts can't get "legally intercepted" via bluetooth from all car manufacturers?

• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I pray daily to Saint Louis Rossmann for such tools.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We have that already. It’s called pulling fuses.

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  • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That would definitely work, but depending on how everything is connected, something more surgical may be called for if you still want use of some of the equipment you paid for.

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    • vivavideri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even with the fucking wiring diagram, I’m still not sure how to disconnect my goddamn horn from my keyless entry. The horn relay is hooked up to so much shit. (The 2001 doesn’t use a “chirp” with the fob, it uses the whole ass horn.) Both of them. Because naturally there’s two. And they’re both loud as shit. And maybe I want to lock my car without the whole street hearing it. And yes, there’s supposed to be a way to silence it but the particular fobs I got for whatever reason won’t.

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      • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I recently burned out my cigarette lighter/DC port in the dash when an inverter apparently spiked higher than it was rated for. (Or maybe the port couldn’t actually handle the watts it was rated for, idk.) Still haven’t figured out if only that needs to be replaced or if something else needs to be instead or in addition to that. Fuses that appear related to it all seem fine, I asked the local dealership and they just shrugged. Wiring diagram doesn’t help. Not motivated enough to deal with it properly now so I just said fuck it and ran an extension cord from the one in the trunk so I can charge my phone. Maybe one day I’ll care enough to track down what actually broke.

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• Substance_P@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It seems like more and more there is a need for some kind of privacy inclined instructional website to come out like iFixit to tackle such things.

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  • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s probably going to happen, eventually. Still early in the game but there has to be some Subaru (etc) technicians that are just done with all this in their own vehicles.

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