#FLOSSH #FLOSS #FOSS

#AvoidManagementThinking

#Hacker #Maker #Crafter #Gardener

#Hackable #Repairable #Salvageable

#RunLocal #RunOffline #BASE

#SlowDown #AssumeScarcity
#LowCycles #LowPower #LowStorage
#LowBandwidth #HighLatency
#DelayAndDisruptionTolerant
#StoreAndForward

#MinimalCollection #Forgetful #Summarise #GarbageCollect

#Decentralize < #Uncentralizability

#ZeroTrust #TrustNoOne #Verify
#PrivacyIsSecurity #SecurityIsPrivacy

#UnpopularOpinion

#Hackintosh #Optiplex project is on hold yet again for the dumbest reason.

This display only has one #Displayport port and I need a mini displayport to #VGA adapter if I want to keep using it with my laptop.

This is the only major complaint I have with dailying old tech; needing ten-thousand adapters for e v e r y t h i n g .

At least it's all #repairable, though.

#tech #areyoukiddingmerightnow #dell

Demand Is Booming for New #NoTech, #Repairable #Tractor

"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

by Jason Koebler
Jun 3, 2026

"The secondary market for decades old, low-tech #JohnDeereTractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, 'no-tech' tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers?

"Alberta’s #UrsaAg says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an 'authorized' repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods.

"Ursa Ag markets its tractors as '#NoFrills' and 'built to last.' Ursa Ag’s Doug Wilson told me that the company designed the tractor because of a need in the marketplace for a new machine that isn’t loaded with tech and is easy to maintain. The company follows in the footsteps of consumer electronics companies like #Fairphone, which makes a repairable smartphone and #Framework, which makes modular, repairable #laptops. The demand Ursa Ag has seen is part of the backlash to manufacturer repair #monopolies and the injection of #technology and #InternetConnectedSensors and terms of use into even the most basic of gadgets.

" 'I talk to farmers every day and I hear from farmers every day about how they went out and bought machinery from 1987 so that it wouldn’t have a computer on it,' Wilson said. 'All of this came from a simple discussion with a customer who wanted to be able to turn [the tractor] on at the start of the day, to use it, and shut it off at the end of the day. It needed to work, so that’s what we built.'

"Ursa Ag’s tractor has been hyped in agriculture circles after Wilson showed the tractor off at a Canadian farm show and it was featured by Farms.com. Wilson said more than a thousand farmers have contacted him after that show, from roughly 30 countries. 'I got a handwritten letter from a farmer in France who doesn’t own a computer and wanted us to mail him information about the tractors,' he said."

Read more:
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/

#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #RightToRepair #Farmers

Will macbooks get more repairable?

https://piefed.social/c/apple_enthusiast/p/1926015/will-macbooks-get-more-repairable

#iFixIt - #MacBookNeo Is the Most #Repairable MacBook in 14 Years

by Elizabeth Chamberlain, with
Shahram Mokhtari and Carsten Frauenheim, March 13, 2026

"Is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable? For years, opening a MacBook has usually meant fighting your way through glue and buried parts.

"But the Neo stands out, with increasingly good day-one manuals, less-painful keyboard repairs, and a screwed-in battery tray that sent cheers across the iFixit office. This laptop proves that things can be made more affordable and more repairable at the same time."

Read more:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years

#SolarPunkSunday #Fixit #RightToRepair #Computers #AppleComputers

So yeah. Is #MacBookNeo hype? Or truly #repairable by users? Another topic for #SolarPunkSunday !

#FixIt #RightToRepair #Macbooks #Linux? #Batteries?