Halfway through he describes this as malicious compliance with the “right to repair” law. Apple and others are making a mockery of the law.

  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
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    TL;DW; he bypasses the whole 2500 dollar software thing by using common sense that the caliper only has two wires in it so you just need to feed a positive and negative power line to it from a low voltage power source and it will extend or retract the electric caliper as needed.

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      While I agree with you that there’s an easy fix, it wouldn’t cost them anything to make holding the handbrake release switch enter maintenance mode.

      Also, wait until they release a face lift with new some arbitrary signal to control it.