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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 bumby »

inigyou wrote: post #188
bumby wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps disagreeableness is a necessary trait for these kinds of results. Unfortunately, that can is also an innate personality trait rather than something easily turned on/off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

Same thing with people like Evgeny Poberezkin who made SimpleX, and Elon doing Starlink. Some amount of irrationality seems required.

Irrationality isn’t one of those big five personality traits though, unless you say it overlaps with neuroticism

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Post by ta8903 »

gosub100 wrote: post #184
spacedcowboy wrote: post #155

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This. I never watch video posts. I can skim-read a text site in seconds to see if it's worth a real read. I can't do that with video, and there's always some ads in it, whether the author put them there or not. I hate ads. And it's not just HN either, video is a very poor substitute for a well written article. Video can augment a well-written article, but it can't replace it.

Posting here for anyone who might not know this: you can click and hold on most YouTube videos and they will play at 2x. I find that to be a good test at whether the host is communicating effectively. If I can understand them perfectly clear at 2X they are talking too slowly.

I watch everything other than songs or something cinematic at 2x anyways.

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

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Post by netcan »

dreambuffer wrote: post #15

There's a cognitive dissonance on this site where everyone claims to hate this attempt at regulatory capture, yet they would do it too if it was their tech company and call it a "moat", and many are actively working towards that.

Is this cognitive dissonance, or is this just people being normal?

You pursue business strategies as a profit maximizing business person concerned with outcomes for your company and investors. You comment on the regulatory/political matters as a pro-social citizen concerned with societal benefits.

Cognitive dissonance tends to occur when attempting to avoid hypocrisy... and doing mental gymnastics to make it so there are no clashes between your different perspectives.

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

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Post by stogot »

srejk wrote: post #67
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

I appreciate everything he stands for - he's on the right side of just about every issue. I just wish he could make more succinct and effective videos.

Does YouTube monetization force creatives to do these longer videos to earn more?

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

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Post by cogman10 »

parineum wrote: post #106
cogman10 wrote: post #87

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Yup. The two things John Deere did was make it impossible to diagnose problems with software lockouts and they did software locks for common parts. Imagine, for example, needing to pay $1000 to replace an oil filter because you needed to buy the official John Deere oil filter and have the John Deere technician drive out to install it and flash the tractor to start up with the new filter. That's what John Deere was up…

> Imagine, for example, needing to pay $1000 to replace an oil filter because you needed to buy the official John Deere oil filter and have the John Deere technician drive out to install it and flash the tractor to start up with the new filter. >That's what John Deere was up to. Is that an actual price and the actual process?

Price no, process yes.

John Deere hasn't been insane enough to soft lock their oil filters. But they do soft lock about everything else they can.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/17/43...

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Post by dataflow »

lemiffe wrote: post #166
stavros wrote: post #154

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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.

> 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.

Note they're also synonyms, so the confusion is understandable:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhum...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhum...

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Post by criddell »

bigfudge wrote: post #133
acters wrote: post #51

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The biggest loss to them is the right to repair stuff. They will be still making it exceptionally difficult to repair their stuff, and might even dip into exotic materials to make cheaper parts fail more often, but this is a bigger loss to them in the long run. Unfortunately, I hate that they got away with such a low AF fine.

Can someone explain to me why any farmer buys JD? It seems like $1000 oil filters is something farmers would notice and talk about in that community?

Is there an easier way to get a green hat?
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