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
@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
r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
wednesday 7α 
Lyn Who Was Always a Thorn Alder