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janrinok
on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:40AM
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w
When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers hold a monopoly over.
Farmers using Eastern European cracking software for their tractors, and MS, Apple, etc. want to stop them.
Related: Right to Repair
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 4, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:41AM (1 child)
An alternative would be a tractor that has all those computers and sensors, bu can be used without it. That is, have a core engine that works without it, and a driving mechanism that can operate the core engine, but can be bypassed if necessary. If the core engine fails, the farmer can repair it. If the driving mechanism fails, the farmer can fall back to using the tractor the traditional way until the driving mechanism gets repaired.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:45AM
Yes. That would be the best solution probably.