kottke.orgFarmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
MeaningfulBits@kottke get those tools and black box / reverse engineer / open source them ASAP. As soon as the 10 years is up they are going to disappear and it will be another multi year battle to get access.
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]@MeaningfulBits @kottke It's already been done by intrepid folks over in Ukraine for quite a while, though they did have a lot of disruptions what with the war so it wouldn't hurt for more people to pick up the skills. (Farmers themselves may be too busy for that though.)