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John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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Re: John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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Post by ivanmontillam »

gblargg wrote: post #146
wojciii wrote: post #110

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I ignore video posts. Why would I spend 20 minutes watching something when I can read the same in one or two minutes? I read inhumanely fast.

These says I just ask YouTube's AI for a summary of the video. Then I can decide whether the presenter is worth another 20 minutes of my time.

I do that too, and meditate if YouTube wounded themselves by adding that feature.

View rates must have dipped for a percentage we don't know of, but definitely made a dent.

Re: John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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Post by ivanmontillam »

shevy-java wrote: post #121
dataflow wrote: post #95

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I share his videos here but nobody seems to see them and/or care enough to vote; all I get is crickets. It's baffling to me. Examples: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802162 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043208

Voting on hackernews is a bit weird compared to reddit. The whole UI is strange to me. Having said that, I noticed that there is in general too much content to consistently e. g. vote or do similar actions. I was watching Rossman's video almost daily in the past; stopped doing so a while ago simply because of lack of time on my part. I need to choose more carefully where I invest my time. (Also, for some reason, when…

Not needing to be at the top of his game anymore makes anyone lose that sharpness. As you just said, he doesn't need to fight New York politicians anymore.

I stopped coding for the past year or so and I'm considering going back because I definitely feel my own sharpness lost.

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Post by oceansky »

rainbow13 wrote: post #159
j2kun wrote: post #96

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I heard someone say recently that one reason tech sucks is because the sociopathic narcissists domesticated the hackers.

Just look at this site now lol

This site was created by venture capitalists. The dichotomy was always there.

Re: John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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Post by ivanmontillam »

Balgair wrote: post #113
maldev wrote: post #108

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I wish he wasn’t such an ass. Had a never meet your heroes moment outside defcon a few years ago. Not a friendly person and went from big fan to disdain when I hear his name.

I think it's a trait with these types that makes them what they are to begin with. They don't just turn it on and off for the bad guys, they're like this all the time with everyone. Never meet your heroes is just great advice, same as it ever was.

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Re: John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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Post by jimnotgym »

dataflow wrote: post #95
cgyvbunji wrote: post #78

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Personally I think if he did that people wouldn't pay attention. My experience is that when you complain to people about digital rights they just glaze over unless you walk them through all the ins and outs and the implications.

I share his videos here but nobody seems to see them and/or care enough to vote; all I get is crickets. It's baffling to me. Examples: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802162 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043208

Oh that guy, I like him.

He puts his money where his mouth is too. Weighing in and challenging people to sue. Good guy, intense but good.

I think it is a shame youtube is forcing creators into longer videos

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Post by lemiffe »

stavros wrote: post #154
mboto wrote: post #141

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I didn’t realise you were committing literary war crimes! Please read more humanely! Books have rights too!

No, if he reads humanely he reads slowly.

I'm not sure if you got it, that inhumanely != inhumanly. Where inhumanely is without consideration for the human race, whereas the other is non-human-like.

Re: John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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Post by shuwix »

jve wrote: post #140
shuwix wrote: post #109

We need same for Lenovo Deere, John Dell ... Soldered RAM's, soldered SSD's lately, batteries which have by purpose just slightly different size not to be interchangeable. And for mighty HP and their printers, management needs to be put to wall and shot. There's no other solution.

It may very well be because of process too. I don't like people calling out soldered stuff. By the way, soldered stuff may still be serviceable at 3rd party service centers, just not at every DIYers home. It will cost you quite some money, yeah. There are laptops that have soldered RAM + Free slot for upgrade. But regulating that stuff is just stupid I think - there is a valid reason for manufacturers to try make thi…

Slots arw for upgrades, repair and salvage. Almost no nowadays notebooks with soldered RAM have additional slot. What of RAM takes 2 secocds with slot. Soldering lots of pins or reballing requires specialized equipment and skilled (and expensive) person.

I'm going to scrap 120 almost mint condition 8th gen i5 Thinkpads thanx to 8GB soldered RAM, which is no longer enough for efficient office work on W11 + basic corporate background apps.

With 1 fookin RAM slot, these notebooks would be perfectly fine for another 5-10 years.

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Post by thevillagechief »

de6u99er wrote: post #69
Cider9986 wrote: post #16

Shout out to Louis Rossmann for doing a ton of work on Right to repair. He started a website called Consumer Rights Wiki to document anti-consumer practices. https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page He's also involved with FULU Foundation which has a bounty of 25k to get Ring cameras working without Amazon's servers. https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/ring-video-doorbells

Wouldn't it be easier to build an open hardware/source alternative to Ring cameras.

The point is there are already many millions of Ring cameras installed. Most people aren't just going to rip them out for open source ones.

Re: John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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Post by jimnotgym »

hobo123 wrote: post #144
silisili wrote: post #123

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Brand name/heritage, and not much competition. I think there are only two US based companies left in business.

My guess is there a few German or Japanese competitors in the market as well. And buying American is all well and good until you can get a better machine for less somewhere else.

One day there will be a Chinese competitor to wipe them all out
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