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I'll add that John Deere is a terrible company, for not only this poor decision, but also because of their stance on "Right to Repair". They manufacture their tractors and parts in such a way, to force farmers to pay for expensive "authorized dealer" repairs only. Locking people out for being able to do routine repairs or repairs that should be self-servicable. They'll intentionally disable the vehicles automatically if "unauthorized" parts are installed or the computer codes aren't cleared after service performed (requiring the dealer equipment).
Read all about them: https://www.qwant.com/?q=John+Deere+right+to+repair+laws&t=web
I'm not sure the best way to combat a company that has a clear monopoly on the markets, but trying to vote with our wallets is never a bad choice, in other scenarios.
Edit: going to plug Louis Rossman from YT, since he's now become a huge advocate for Right to Repair, along with handing out daily redpills (can't tell if he's conservative or liberal, but he absolutely sees the writing on the wall)
https://youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
It doesn't have a monopoly. There are many alternatives readily available to farmers and others who need tractors and accessories. Older John Deere machines are still quality so long as its before this bullshit they're pulling, too.
That doesn't excuse their behavior as they're clearly jumping on the 'customer who buys our product really doesn't own it due to bullshit we slipped into a purchase agreement' shit. Like our cell phones, we legally don't own. Which is why they can force updates that end up causing battery life to plummet like Apple does.
You know there is a political party which claims to be 'for the little guy' and they've done nothing for well over a decade while this bullshit has been going on. Wonder if that means they're not for the little guy at all?
I don't think any political party is for the little guy. Everything eventually boils down to who has the most money. And that's never the little guy.
Party A lies to X supporters in order to get power.
Party B lies to Y supporters in order to get power.
Neither party gives up meaningful government power at the benefit of the citizen.
Both have their "party line" (lies) that they drone out.
This doesn't mean that either side doesn't have well-intentioned people rising up within the party that truly want to make a difference, but they eventually get ground down into being yes-men/women to the party or weirdo outcasts like Rand/Ron Paul who are the party punching bag.
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Parties and other oligarchic cliques are what you get in a republic, which your sacred-cow Constitution empowers. Don't treat that anti-majority manifesto like Fundamentalists treat the Bible. It is a straitjacket on our political self-determination.
Thanks for the clarification - I thought John Deere had a bigger cut of the pie, but it sounds like there are alternatives, which is good.
Excellent points about many products nowadays, which we don't technically own. Apple is another egregious offender that has terrible engineering. There are many companies. Subscription services are right up there as well. Just another way to retain full control and for the little guys to get screwed.
And BOTH of our political parties are at fault here hence the new name Uniparty.
NY state of all places just passed a bill that requires electronics manufacturers to provide kits for self-repair. A right to repair bill. Waiting for the governor to sign.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/3/23153504/right-to-repair-new-york-state-law-ifixit-repairability-diy
Joun Deere has close ties to the PGA, they operate a huge "school" in central Florida meaning they probably have ties to Dis-groomers too!
All equipment that does not have the right to repair should be taxed heavily to encourage competition which will make better stuff (and Democrats love taxes so maybe they'll like this idea too)
What is stopping people from reverse engineering, pirating, or bypassing John Deere software in order to make the necessary repairs or customisations?
Surely it can't be complexity as the open source community would make short work of that. I think the real problem here is the socialist concepts of copyright and intellectual property law that use the public purse and public legal system to prevent people bypassing John Deere. If you were to do away with that then the John Deere monopoly would crumble. Of course, you would be waiving all warranties and would be personally assuming full liability if any changes were made outside of the John Deere ecosystem. We have to stop socialising the costs of running a business.
There are numerous videos about how farmers are having to learn to 'hack' their tractors so they can fix them. Its possible, but shouldn't be necessary. Its a shady business practice to force your customers to only be able to get their equipment fixed at YOUR dealers/mechanics.
I grew up on a farm, but decided that farming was not for me; so I became an Electrical Engineer. Not many farmers have the "hacker" aptitude. These are people who get up early, work hard, plan their day, work the land, and make the best decisions they can, with the data they have. They go to bed each night, weary - and sitting down at a computer and placing their "livelihood at risk" by hacking code they do not understand, is not very highly rated on the risk/consequence table.
they screw up one variable on the tractor, they either disable it, or cause something to break - or - they pay an inflated cost at the dealership and operate under warranty of the manufacturer.
Now, if a farmer can SEE a part that is apparently built with the same quality, is half the cost, and fits in their tractor at half the cost - that's another matter.
Remember these new machines are 200-500k+ in some cases and may be on lease. Even if they own it, they need parts and if the dealerships cut them off they could have a large expensive piece of scrap metal for the sake of a $1k part.
Secondarily, hacker culture is typically liberal leaning and city based, not farmers playing as a hobby.
In the right-to-repair/operate side of things, those with certain skills could make alternate 3D parts available to be machined. 3D scan stuff, use CAD to make part models to be shared.
Or reverse-engineer the computers in order to provide alternate operating systems.
If you don't have skills, but there are those who do, people could support them financially.
"Open hardware" is a path forward for this. Search the term for more information.
I believe some people are doing that with JD stuff, but don't quote me on that. I agree that the open source community can help, but there's many things which would be applicable - companies that are anti-consumer essentially. The entire economic system needs an overhaul, just like you stated.
I stopped watching Rossmann after he called all of his fans that were trying to warn him about the jab trolls and started deleting comments. That just made me sick.
He was always on point about everything else though.
He is still 100% right about right-to-repair. Not everyone is going to march in lock-step with us, and expecting it is leftist bullshit. His specialty is computer repair, he's not gonna know about all that Jab bullshit and trying to 'inject' that into his videos through comments to derail him from his mission to get 'right-to-repair' passed as national law is actually doing us all a disservice.
We have to fight the globo-homos on many fronts and can't expect warriors to fight in all battles all the time. Rossman is a valuable warrior on a very specific front, let him fight where he knows his battleground and stop trying to drag him off of it. Not accusing you of doing so, but his commenters definitely were.
Dude, HE brought it up, then his commenters talked about what happened to them and their friends, then he called them trolls and deleted them.
I will not respect someone who does that.
Nobody gets everything right. I'm not going to dismiss someone on every issue just because they misbehaved on one.
He is a good guy, even if he lost the plot on the jab. At least he never required his employees to get the jab, and openly refused to comply with NYC's mandates for customers and employees. And spoke very openly about both of those. That means far more to me than deleting comments that talked about his personal decision to get the jab.
Hmm, I always knew he got the vax, but hadn't watched him consistently enough to know his full stance on it. I guess I don't get too worked up about people who advertise they got the jab, because they're likely not going to listen to you anyway, much like Louie and the trolls.
It's unfortunate his blind spot is the vax, but he isn't the first and won't be the last. Many people are going to have to learn the hard way :(