XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:45:42 -0000 (UTC), Torbjorn Lindgren   
    wrote:   
      
      
      
   >I'm wondering if the dealers can load the old version of the software   
   >via their tool for the affected users, it definitely should be   
   >possible in a sane world but, well, car manufacturer and sanity isn't   
   >always compatible.   
      
   It occurs to me that cars, unlike (say) some BD Players, may have   
   enough buttons to replicate an old DVD trick:   
      
   When it becomes a brick, press three buttons unlikely to ever be   
   pressed together (say, "back one chapter", "eject", and "x2") and it   
   resets to the original factory default. And so is no longer a brick,   
   although all customization and updates are lost.   
      
   This dodge was, apparently, at first something Customer Support   
   revealed only when necessary, whereupon the combinations were, of   
   course, soon known everywhere. IIRC, my last DVD actually had it's   
   reset combo printed in the manual.   
      
   Maybe Jeeps (and other vehicles) need the same thing. The key, again,   
   is to pick three buttons that are very unlikely to be pressed at the   
   same time in normal operation.   
      
   This doesn't work with some BD players because some players only have   
   two buttons: On/Off and Tray Open/Close. And opening the tray turns   
   the BD player on, while turning the BD player off closes the tray, so   
   they are linked anyway.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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