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Mashimo | 7 days ago

I don't think the farmer that just wants to switch his dead light bulbs out for generic ones without waiting for john deer certified tech surely is very proficient in writing a full test suite.

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superice|6 days ago

I'm not anti right-to-repair by any means. I'm just saying that "we don't need the manufacturer, just vibe code your own firmware" is not a solution to this problem.

Farmers should be able to swap parts, tweak loads of things in software, etc without software locks. I should be able to do that on my car too. But the way to achieve that is not through spending a few hundreds of thousands of dollars on Opus [latest] and praying that doesn't kill me, that's the part I have an issue with in OPs comment.