Farmers jailbreaking John Deere tractors to repair them - video

[CharlesWaugh]

The key provision is A.5, as follows:

5. This MOU shall not be interpreted or construed to require a Manufacturer to: a) divulge trade secrets, proprietary or confidential information; b) allow owners or Independent Repair Facilities to override safety features or emissions controls or to adjust Agricultural Equipment power levels; or, c) violate any federal, state, or local laws or regulations.

Yeah, the DMCA is still in effect, so they can hide behind it all they want.

See the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) here:
https://www.fb.org/files/AFBF_John_Deere_MOU.pdf

[Toolmaker51]

Another reason to uphold Shakespeare's adage; Kill all the lawyers.

[Toolmaker51]

and there wouldn't be empty DEF containers littering the highways?

[MeJasonT]

To continue - The trick is to convince the cancel culture that you have to engineer out problems.
We wont let the world end, we have had some experience of fixing global disaster in the past - like the hole in the o zone.
If the desk jockeys don't trust engineers then im afraid their verbal burbeling wont make parts, someone somewhere has to get their hands dirty.
Gunter Thunderpants and the rest of the eco warriors are a total waste of oxygen never mind an unnecessary production of CO2.
We need right to repair as a major part of saving the planet, recycling als plays a big part in that. How many of us own old workshop machinery, we should be vary careful they don't target those as old dirty unreliable machines build in a time of gluttony of carbon resources destroying the planet. You think im kidding, they glued themselves to old oil paintings from the masters in the likes of the V&A in London because oil paint was used, they ere painted back in the 1700's. To me the right to repair should be forced high on the agenda and yet our governments don't mention it - but they do want us all to have an electric car by 2030. Clearly no one is consulting engineers when it comes to the climate crisis.

[MeJasonT]

Please go and read up about the 15 minute city (their already is one in the US and Oxford in the UK to follow in 2024/26) and

. Its more and more looking like a scene from Total Recall with Arny Wetshisnickers (like the guy just playing with his name, its called humour, notice i didn't say the same about Gunter). Wont be long now, the Covid chip inoculation will have us all GPS tracked and the sleeping nanobots will be floating around our blood stream just waiting for the kill command. We are already at the point of a global credit system, we will get 100 credits and have to plan which services we need from week to week. Fusion 360 is 30 credits, cable tv is 30 credits, the lease car is 35 credits, if we plan on eating and heating our homes i can see a small problem. If this is a conspiracy theory then why is it being implemented already. We cant make steel in the UK anymore, with the war in Ukraine aluminium production is already net zero until the conflict ends. We will be recycling metals until the Russian war on Ukraine is over, If the Russians succeed I've used Russian steel umm. If we like the freedom and way of life we enjoy we need to use our next vote very wisely. Viva Right to Repair

[MeJasonT]

Now to get companies like Haas to give in to right to repair.
Having an older Haas mill is good in the sense that they really cant tell you what to do with it but when parts are scarce and they insist on charging what amounts to more than the machines values to come out and change a part (that only they can do ?). At least Tormach are a little more flexible. I don't need haas to come out and change the oil or change a light bulb but if you go on the Haas FB forum there are plenty of brainwashed machine owners who think the big machine dealer is the only person who can do repairs. I have made the argument several times - "WE are meant to be Engineers", if you don't know what to do then yes people are their to help you from the big glitzy saleroom but that should never take away a persons ability to repair. So in my view any flexibility from one Big manufacturer will hopefully filter down to all. These COP and WEF directives should be pusing for repairable goods and opening up the self repair option but sadly not, they are still hell bent on the capitalist model. Trying to save the environment my A***. Those lovely left wing citizens love their directives and will worship any environmental experiment without actually seeing the full gravity of its effects. When steel production, oil and coal extraction are all eradicated by the panic people then so will the manufacturing jobs, we cant all work behind a desk not to mention we need raw materials and manufacturing to build solar panels, wind turbines, nuke power stations etc. The trick is to convince the cancel culture that you have to engineer out problems.