Been saying this for years and now it's actually happening
Farmers are buying old tractors that they can actually repair instead of new ones which come with DRM lockdown malarkey
A John Deere built in the 70s is actually reparable by yourself, without a diagnostics computer or a ransom
Ironically, capitalism (which was supposed to drive innovation), is eating itself out of relevance
Strongly relevant:
Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
It's a treatise on the transferability of knowledge and skills, which aren't automatic. Contrary to popular belief
Knowledge is fragile. The skills to build and repair must be preserved and shared, lest we fall victim to our own success by depending too much a few silos which hold all the keys to the castle of civilization
Jonathan's talk from DevGAMM 2019.https://www.youtube.com/c/DevGAMMchannel
@cypnk sometimes at antique stores in small farming towns I have stumbled across machinery built by hand to process harvests or otherwise help with farm work. Stuff from the 30s mostly.
Usually, at the heart of these machines was an old tractor engine or a drive shaft that was to be connected to a belt powered by an old tractor engine.
It isn't just that these things were repairable, it's that they were customizable, understandable, and adaptable.
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The coming #collapse/#degrowth period is going to be a sight to behold. We see #Amazon depend on #Google at the moment. Google depends on a supply of free-money. And the corporate state and #militaryMediaComplex depending on Google.
When this thing goes down it will be magnificent - and it will.
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@cypnk i’d imagine this is happening not just in the farming industry but everywhere
ask people like my parents and they’ll say they prefer having an older vehicle to work on just because it “doesn’t have computer crap in it”
@cypnk even my stepdad, who understands how much computerizing a car adds to it’s efficiency hates having to work on cars with an ECU because ECUs are such a black box system that it’s impossible to work on anything that may lead back to it without shelling out thousands of dollars in diagnostic equipment or going to someone who has already shelled out to get the equipment
it’s an honest pain in the dick
@cypnk but this isn’t just in cars it’s everywhere! cell phones, home computers, laptops, generators, solar charge systems, televisions, set-top boxes, modems, ONTs,
it’s horse shit
@cypnk @lastfuture thanks for this interesting thread! This problem of vendor lock in is so universal...
If only all people would understand and correct this misery by choosing wisely whom to buy from...
But sometimes there is no choice either...
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