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Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

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Re: Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

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Post by asa400 »

snowingsnow wrote: post #319
hmmm-i-wonder wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a wrong tire problem, not an AWD problem to me. My parents also had a 2014 Forrestor. They parked it next to my shed when they went on a cruise one winter, and it crawled itself out of a 2 foot snowbank without shovelling it when they got back. That thing was a tank in snow and I definitely abused it when I had the chance. For the 'tire spinning in the air', sounds like the other tires must have been spin…

Nope just one wheel. Factory tires. I like everyone telling me it’s my fault for not having the right tires. Lol. Like the claims Subaru makes are only valid if I spend a grand on tires for my new car. If you have to tie yourself in knots to justify marketing you can fuck right off.

This applies to literally every car ever made, and doubly so to those that have open differentials. Every single car manufacturer on earth provides cheap tires from the factory to keep the sticker price down. You can either get mad or you can learn something. Good luck to you.

Re: Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

ben_w wrote: post #318
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #304

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> I've learned it is normally pretty easy to tell what caste someone is from With all due respect, you’ve fooled yourself into ignorance. Many Indians haven’t had a relationship with caste for generations, particularly in the cities or upper and middle classes. (Intermarriage and wealth have rendered it indiscernible.) There are also something like 25,000 castes and subcastes. It’s not a system designed for anyone to…

> There are also something like 25,000 castes and subcastes. That makes it sound like castes are professions (which IIRC used to be somewhat inherited in the UK, hence names like Smith and Cooper), but where people then tried to assign ranks to those professions (like the family names Bishop and King)? I am almost totally ignorant of how it really works, but I'm an omni-curious nerd, if you want to enlighten me :)

Yup. In the West one of the Byzantine emperors calcified the economy by making trades heritable (Justinian?). We don't know the historic source of the same in India, just that it happened earlier and was allowed to develop for much, much longer.

Re: Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

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Post by simonlc »

prh8 wrote: post #285
warkdarrior wrote: post #208

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https://github.com/G-Two/subarulink

that still requires an active subscription unfortunately

I'm guessing the subscription activates some sim card? I wonder if that's activated anyway and still tracks you if you don't sign up...

Re: Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

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Post by snowingsnow »

asa400 wrote: post #321
snowingsnow wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope just one wheel. Factory tires. I like everyone telling me it’s my fault for not having the right tires. Lol. Like the claims Subaru makes are only valid if I spend a grand on tires for my new car. If you have to tie yourself in knots to justify marketing you can fuck right off.

This applies to literally every car ever made, and doubly so to those that have open differentials. Every single car manufacturer on earth provides cheap tires from the factory to keep the sticker price down. You can either get mad or you can learn something. Good luck to you.

Same to you.

Re: Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

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Post by lightedman »

winrid wrote: post #257
lightedman wrote: post #213

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" It's a great car other than it's not very fast and it gets really bad gas mileage." My 2013 Outback Limited with rally package (wheel paddle shifters etc) gets 32 on the highway with my driving habits and almost 28 offroading. That's with larger tires and a disconnected swaybar for better articulation, everything else is stock. CVTs don't respond well to lead-footing.

The disconnected swaybar won't impact mileage FWIW

It actually does when you're off-road. If you can keep all tires in contact with the ground you aren't wasting fuel spinning one that isn't in contact with the ground (I keep the traction control off when offroading to avoid the system engaging its brake-based power delivery since it isn't an actual 4x4.)

The difference has been absolutely measurable, with a ~15% increase in fuel efficiency in very hilly or rutted terrain.

Re: Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

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Post by hmmm-i-wonder »

snowingsnow wrote: post #319
hmmm-i-wonder wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a wrong tire problem, not an AWD problem to me. My parents also had a 2014 Forrestor. They parked it next to my shed when they went on a cruise one winter, and it crawled itself out of a 2 foot snowbank without shovelling it when they got back. That thing was a tank in snow and I definitely abused it when I had the chance. For the 'tire spinning in the air', sounds like the other tires must have been spin…

Nope just one wheel. Factory tires. I like everyone telling me it’s my fault for not having the right tires. Lol. Like the claims Subaru makes are only valid if I spend a grand on tires for my new car. If you have to tie yourself in knots to justify marketing you can fuck right off.

>Factory tires. I like everyone telling me it’s my fault for not having the right tires.

Doesn't matter if you like it, it matters that they are right and you are wrong.

>If you have to tie yourself in knots to justify marketing you can fuck right off.

I will fuck off but that doesn't make you right, just obstinately wrong.

https://gearjunkie.com/motors/winter-tires-vs-all-season-dri...

Re: Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

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Post by eldaisfish »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #304
UltraSane wrote: post #280

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I've learned it is normally pretty easy to tell what caste someone is from. But watching a Brahmin who really believes they are vastly better than Dalits act like as arrogant as the Goa'uld from Stargate SG1 was really something.

> I've learned it is normally pretty easy to tell what caste someone is from With all due respect, you’ve fooled yourself into ignorance. Many Indians haven’t had a relationship with caste for generations, particularly in the cities or upper and middle classes. (Intermarriage and wealth have rendered it indiscernible.) There are also something like 25,000 castes and subcastes. It’s not a system designed for anyone to…

The fact that you claim to be indian while also claiming that "Many Indians haven’t had a relationship with caste for generations" is laughable.

Caste is VERY much alive in India and in indian-descended communities around the world. Please, for the love of goodness, stop repeating this lie.

People's surnames, the colour of their skin, where they live are all indicators of caste.

Here is just one piece of evidence showing that intermarriage across caste lines is still relatively rare - https://www.science.org/content/article/india-s-fragmented-s...

With respect, it is you who has fooled themselves into ignorance.

If you are open to having your views challenged (and proven wrong), please listen to The Seen And the Unseen podcast, specifically the episode with Chandra Bhan Prasad.

Re: Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel

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Post by quickthrowman »

yesiamyourdad wrote: post #317
duxup wrote: post #41

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I love my Subaru as far as reliability, all wheel drive performance in snow and ice, and such. But OMG it's consumer tech was dated when I bough it, and it's just full of inexplicable issues and caveats and such. Even just the limitations and the UX issues are so obvious that it sends a message that if they tried to fix them they would introduce just as many new issues. I'm at the point where despite the car being go…

I loved mine until the transmission blew out at 96,000 miles. Could be a one-off, but then a friend bought a used one with 108,000 miles, and the dealer proudly noted that it had a new transmission just installed. I think that vaunted reliability is gone. That aside, the one thing I haven't liked is the electronics. Many times it gets out of sync with the phone and simply can't connect, the only fix is to shut the ca…

The boxer engines also burn oil like crazy after like 75k miles, I gave up on Subaru and got a RAV4.
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