Good thing here: you can hack John Deere products on in space station since DMCA only applies in the US.
Just be sure you aren't in a station with the American flag printed on it, or they'll get you anyway.
John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX
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#62Many people would be surprised by how high tech farming has become over the last decade or so.
In the next few decades I wouldn't be surprised if most of the farming done in the US will be done from an office building.
Last year I went to a farm where they had a guy sitting in a room with 5 screens watching tractors farm fields. The cameras, sensors radars, mapping ect. were all powered by GPS.
The data is also sent to John Deere and they will do diagnostics on your equipment for you while you are using it and let you know if you need to do anything.
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#63Now, farmers can txt and drive!
Not a problem, unlike Musk, John Deere actually has a real working self-driving product.
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#64It is of incredible strategic importance that tractors not become "online only". Some fucking John Deere licensing server should not become a single point of failure for the nations agriculture.
I don't think you know that much about modern tractors. This headline is only surprisingly to people who still think of John Deere as an old school tractor company. Modern day tractors have tons of sensors on them that are always connected to make sure any failing part can be detected and fixed before it breaks, basically or actually do drive themselves, and likely have as much or more tech in then as any modern car.
What does this have to do with TaaS, or right to repair?
Just because it has tons of sensors doesn't mean they shouldn't be replacable
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think you know that much about modern tractors. This headline is only surprisingly to people who still think of John Deere as an old school tractor company. Modern day tractors have tons of sensors on them that are always connected to make sure any failing part can be detected and fixed before it breaks, basically or actually do drive themselves, and likely have as much or more tech in then as any modern car.
What does this have to do with TaaS, or right to repair? Just because it has tons of sensors doesn't mean they shouldn't be replacable
They're not really tractors.
They sell land prep, crop sowing, and harvesting solutions.
It's not like a car. These things are used for a few weeks a year, and if they don't do their job during that time the farm looses all their income for the year.
A better way to think of them is like construction equipment that you rent. Even big construction companies rent their equipment.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Small family farming is already dead unless (a) you are willing to turn a large fortune into a small one or (b) you are willing to live in poverty.
Not entirely true, small family farming can compete in niche, specialty and high end produce, they can capitalize on having a pretty farm (because "real" farms are incredibly ugly but people have pastoral fantasies), and farm stands can be profitable if they're in the right location.
That’s true, but it’s also exceptionally rare.
In that version, you are fundamentally not a farmer, you are a marketer.
Source: grew up in a farm town. Go Wheat Kings!
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#67When they say > agreement with SpaceX to provide cutting-edge satellite communications (SATCOM) service to farmers surely they really mean > agreement with SpaceX to provide cutting-edge satellite communications (SATCOM) service to John Deere
I thought John Deere was going to send tractors to Mars.
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#68I've always wondered what they do here in the John Deere Innovation Hub in SF. They have a fancy building and sign and everything.
I guess they're making space tractors in there?
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#69There is a vital need for farm equipment to be open source. I get the feeling quite a few people have no clue where their food comes from. This was going around years so the source may have been removed. "Seven per cent of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.." what was worse is I am pretty sure I saw the study and seem to recall it also said 40% replied "don't know" so 47% of supposed adults i…
This was surprising to me, so I did a little digging. Per [1], it appears the options were that chocolate milk comes from black and white cows, brown cows, or "don't know". As far as I am personally aware, both cow choices are correct answers, and I wouldn't blame anyone for choosing "don't know" when they haven't been given an option for both.
Of course it's also surprising if this was how the question was asked, and I may be misinterpreting the interview. Sadly, the survey itself does not seem to be available to confirm or deny.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/06/16/533255590/alarming-number-of-..., quote: "RAGALIE-CARR: Well, there was brown cows or black-and-white cows, or they didn't know."
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this case more like, your Tractor will stop unless it can acquire a Starlink satellite over the horizon....
They're clearly just preemptively establishing planetary DRM so that the Martians can't use our own tools against us.
Musk would obviously be on the side of the Martians.