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My car also nags me every time I unbuckle my seatbelt to park yet that doesn't mean everyone should have it unbuckled all the time. There's a reason it's designed to be naggy.

Having everyone easily disable Windows Defender will not lead to a great outcome.

There's a reason malware on Windows has been on a steep decline from the Windows XP days and I'd prefer it to keep it that way.

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Not all uses cases for a car are the same. Some are held entirely on private property and are used as work vehicles where the seat belt chime would be unnecessary and distracting. Which is why most manufacturers provide a sneaky mechanism to disable it. I own the vehicle, why wouldn't they let me disable the nag?

Their solution? Make it intentionally complicated, but still possible:

Step 1: Turn your headlight switch off

Step 2: Unbuckle your seatbelt and turn the key to the off position

Step 3: Turn your key to the on position till the seatbelt warning light turns off

Step 4: Buckle and unbuckle the seatbelt three times and end on the unbuckled position

Step 5: Turn your headlight switch on for three seconds and then turn it off

Step 6: Repeat step number 3

Step 7: Wait for the seat belt warning light to turn on and off again then buckle and buckle the seat belt

I remember doing this sort of song and dance with my RAM and Jeep. Sometimes I am just moving around a parking lot for a brief moment, or especially when off roading (read: stuck) and don't want the constant beeping.

Seat belts are 100% an immediate habit for me. Driving at any rate of speed without one makes me feel super sketchy and uncomfortable, so the nag is not needed at all.

On my Ford's I would use FORScan to defeat it via the OBD2 port.

I do have a security gateway bypass module for my truck though so hopefully I will be able to start playing around with AlfaOBD soon.

Sounds like you are arguing that seatbelts do not increase the safety of its users when it is used on private property.

I know it’s not your main point. But anyways.. it does not increase the rhetorical power of your comment.

TBH the main reason I commented this was to get some kind of validation from the community (positive or negative). Sounds like I need to turn it back on :)

I really only use this machine for MWII, Halo and Titanfall. It's a glorified Xbox. I even contemplated putting it on a standalone VLAN to 100% physically isolate it from my core net.

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