Actually I want the absolute societal cancer that is instagram to fail and shut down completely, and if they make it an independent company they'll become more competitive and suck even more of people's time and privacy.
I like how even when Facebook has change name to Meta, people still called them Facebook and be like "no, you're still that same company, nothing changes"
They only changed their name because they were trying to ditch their terrible reputation. It's a very common corporate tactic, and it works quite well too. It happens all the time, and it should be made illegal. You never get to change your name, so choose wisely. Just like that airline company that kept having fatal crashes. So they changed their name, because nobody would fly with them anymore. Sales were going down the tubes, for good reason. Changed their name - problem solved. Exact same company nothing else changed. That's why it needs to be illegal. It needs to be easy for us to recognize a scumbag company, and companies need to guard their reputations like it's their treasury.
Fun fact, in the past tractors were sold and advertised based on how easy it was for your average run of the mill farmer to fix the damn thing on their own. And there was also a lot of push for teaching your usual business owner to fix their own devices and such. My how the times have changed.
AVE in a recent winter video had a dead battery on a tractor, no codes, he tried to jump it, and immediately it threw a code that disabled it. He was so pissed.
@@S.O.N.E I mean , if things lasted super long and are actually good, people would just buy 1 time and then the company can expect less sales overall from customers because there's less incentive to buy repeatedly if the old one still works well. But if things break relatively easy while working relatively well, they can guarantee a stream of revenue from repeat customers.
As a farmboy for most of my life, we have a saying about John Derre here. "Farmers run 40 year old equipment, Rich farmers run 20 year old equipment, Very rich farmers can run new equipment, but only stuped rich ultra wealthy farmers can run new John Deere."
@@the1exnay yes worse then apple to be fair it is in electric car so we’re else are you going to go. But it basically ensures they monopolize the repair market since they can only service your car.
@@Chris-uq4bn One could argue that EVs, especially ones with a lot of firm/soft/hardware inside them, are more complex and harder to repair then regular ICE vehicles, and far fewer people have any experience with them.
@@Chris-uq4bn I recently saw a tiktok of someone with dubious qualifications successfully repairing their tesla. In the video i did not notice any features designed to make repair hard. And my googling on the matter hasn't really clarified much, probably because I'm just googling badly So i would be interested in more elaboration on what tesla has done.
@@the1exnay Yeah, Teslas aren't necessarily hard to repair by design, there's just nowhere to go cuz everything is still very new and expensive. Your local auto shop might not even HAVE an EV parts distro they work with, even IF the tech knows what he's doing.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Facebook, is in fact, Facebook/Meta, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Facebook plus Meta. Meta is not a real company unto itself, but rather a cover shell company of a fully functioning monopoly made useful by the glowies, boomers and vital data collection mechanisms comprising a full surveillance program as defined by the feds.
@@user-lt2rw5nr9s Yep, thats why I said Facebook/Meta first as reference to them, Meta is simply a parent company; like Alphabet to Google. This is a well known methodology used by big firms for them to shove all the companies they've acquired under one "family" name and distance their conglomerate from their original company "Facebook" and its history. Especially with Facebook's history of mistrust around the world.
Fun fact there's a Chicago company called meta And FaCeBo0k is trying to break them from existence So its annoying when others just say meta lol I say Facebook as retaliation to that story that's going on 🤷♂️
@@heroslippy6666 No it does not, the freedoms of a people are decided by how things are playing out on the ground, not in the courtroom. Laws get trampled, constitutions torn to shreds, until you can say that the monopoly isn't actually there anymore you should treat a monopoly as if it still is.
Isn't this the 20th time some big tech case has been brought up in the past few years alone before being dropped by a completely incompetent judiciary and legislative system? I'll become optimistic when something actually changes and people stop endlessly virtue signaling for political clout.
Right to repair should be an inherent ability the moment you pay for the tractor, and some malevolent corporate chuckle fuck who sits in their office and scratches their balls all day shouldn't have the power to decide what a group of hard working farmers does with it. A step in the right direction, let's hope it keeps moving that way.
The John Deere thing is such a nightmare for farmers and rural people in general. This is why companies like Mahindra (an Indian-based tractor manufacturer) and Kubota are becoming more prevalent than Deere.
This is the news I think we have all been waiting for. I just hope that these companies get what they deserve. That being said, if John Deere tractors cannot be repaired by third party repairers, how is that different to what apple has been doing over the past few years against third party repairers. What I want to see is Apple being brought into the spotlight for their shady practices.
This has been what Louis Rossman has been trying to do for the better part of the last decade. I highly suggest you check out his channel. He is specifically working to get Apple and John Deere to stop these practices, and I think in at least 1 or 2 states, he helped to get laws passed by voicing his concerns to their governments.
When I was young, I wanted to work at those companies. Good thing I stopped my network engineer job and change career completely. I hate those big tech companies and their monopoly regime.
Another notable new lawsuit is google claiming that Apple is “bullying” them out of market share by making non-iMessage texts green because then people get bullied for not having iPhones.
@@smeggiamagarwine Is a legit thing since in many countries having an iphone is seen as a rich thing and not having means (for this crazies) that google users are poor, filthy and uncivilizatied people that can't afford anything. And as someone who used Blackberry I can say that Google has some merit on the statement however this is not directly done by Apple, is just a marketing ploy hijacked by the stupiest of people.
Signal has an auto delete function, like Snapchat but actually secure. If you are communicating something that you don't want to come to light just go through all that effort of 2 clicks.
@@j.k.4479 I mean for the average person deleting is enough. It’ll stop most their family snooping around and that’s all they really care about. And for most my friends it adds a feeling of exclusivity to the messages, so I guess those are what most people who aren’t tech savvy are thinking.
@@j.k.4479 Well, basis of security is understanding what level of threat we're defending against. I guess stopping 98% of possible "attacks" is good, if threat model you are concerned with is your highschool friend Stacy. Ofc, users themselves dont know it, and expect it will be effective against more sophistocated attackers too. Like expecting your wooden fence against graffiti kids and opportunity theft will stop a mafia raid.
@@monarch0243 Microsoft accidentially leaks source all the time and Apple atleast has less reasons to track you as hard as the rest because they already make their fortune on morons buying the newest $1,000 phone or buying an IRoller for their foldable phone. Both I'd say are beneficial.
Dont even call Facebook Meta even once, for the same reason you should say google something rather than saying look it up. Messes with what the companies want you to do. EDIT: I want to see google become generized trademark asap.
Counting on a corrupt government to deal with corrupt corporations, all while we keep providing those corrupt corporations the support they need to stay in business through our usage of their products (and thus our being their products as well).
And if we suddenly stop buying en masse, they'll be bailed out with your tax money. I'd say that starting with holding the government accountable and votixng out every single rep that does not sign right to repair bills is a good start.
@@robertstan9733 Yeah, sign the Right to Repair bill or you are out. this should be a bipartisan issue. Saddly a lot of morons are brainwashed to think RtoR is bad for their favorite brand.
@@robertstan9733 Voting doesn’t work anymore with dominion systems and ballot mules running amok at 4 AM on election days. I suggest everyone stop paying taxes and start taking up arms.
I first saw this john deere repair BS a few years ago, glad to see it finally moved to the courts. This case is far more important than most people will realize.
For anyone who wants to know, the best makes for tractors and equipment are Farmall, Case, International Harvester and New Holland in my own experience. I don't know about old John Deeres personally, perhaps their older stuff was better before integrated computers got involved. Ford I'd generally stay away from. Ford uses cheap parts and they're designed lousy, they don't care where anything goes. To repair Ford tractors you sometimes have to buy a special tool to reach into tight spaces to loosen a nut, whereas on any other normal tractor it would be easily accessible. Also don't buy replacement parts from China, they're shit. Got a new starter made in China once and straight out of the box the new one was dead.
Farmall was a line under IHC(International Harvester Company), Case...model dependent, and for a while New Holland was Ford and Ford was New Holland, as Ford owned New Holland for a while, before the Case-IH-New-Holland Merger.
@kingdomatthi "Air cooling is better" lol, that went over so well that they lasted 5 years in North America and lost most of their dealers and markets.(Deutz-Allis)
The Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes lost his eye when he dropped a loaded handgun. Given his poor operation practices of a relatively low tech firearm, I'd not place too much stock in his ability to properly manage his Signal account.-
Honestly cannot wait to see Instagram free of Facebooks clutches, the app is unusable compared to it's original version. All the glitches, terrible UI, forced sales pushed on users and inability to remove predators profiles. Not to mention the hiding of content creators when they don't publish content every day.
I remembered finding an old rusted out tractor from the 80s while hiking in the middle of nowhere desert, and then taking it apart and fixing it in a few hours. Of course it didn't drive but with some butane camp fuel the engine ran for a few secs. Then one day I took a look inside a modern tractor, and let's just say I was both terrified and saddened
We have an IMT 533 tractor from 1978. You can repair anything with a few basic tools, it's that simple. The new tractors are just bad, especially because of all those electronics... The only electronics the IMT has are the light and blinkers... and those don't even work after 44 years lol
The problem is not necessarily the tractor itself. It’s the (software locking physically parts) which is the problem that’s done by the greedy company.
don';t forget they did the same to Oculus, and then on august 5th or 6th 2019? all us legacy owners got a letter stating we could not have our stuff past january 2022, and that facebook was required. best part. the forums had a complaint letter to sign, but to sign it you had to attach your facebook account. win win hey.
Stop calling them big tech, the bankers, the deep state, the globalists or the communists already. Call them what they are. Swedes. Darn Swedes every time
I mean, nearly all major software companies today have some form of quiet embrace, extend, and extinguish model. Except for the Big G. They just straight up do it with absolute pomp and skip in their step.
If you open-sourced _everything,_ everyone who was into making games for the money would be incentivized to GTFO. I think I like@@kornaros96's approach since they still have a chance to make back what they spent on making that game... Yes, I'm aware that MTX have been ruining the prices of games for years now - mobile games being a prime offender - but cold turkey's rarely pretty, if ever.
@@RaceBandit a model similar to the pharma industry, you get x amount of time to make you money back on the patent and after that it's fair game. End of support seems like a decent marker to declare it open source.
@@RaceBandit people would still earn the same amount of money from making software, open source doesnt mean you can just copy. paste and sell it, there are licenses and since everything is open source you would be able to quickly find out if someone steals your code
Honestly I'd like to see laws the levy huge fines against any company that deliberately incorporate "malicious product design" into their products with the intent to cause the product to fail after a certain point or make that product increasingly difficult to fix on your own. That would be the best scenario.
There are plenty of commercial tools available that can break into devices (especially older ones) and get root access. It's extremely rare that apps like Signal have a flaw, it's the phone itself. The app is on the phone, if you have root then there's nothing preventing you.
There were some scares with discord accounts not too far back and it was suspected that old/outdated phones were a significant source of compromised accounts.
@@heroslippy6666 Essentially. There may even *be* app vulnerabilities, but they just aren't readily exploited in forensic acquisition, there's no need. You have to break into the phone to get to the app (without a pass code at least), and doing the former generally results in a full (decrypted) memory dump, which includes the secure enclave or cryptographic keys used by any apps anyway. With the code for the phone, same story, you just exploit the whole device, but it's even easier because you don't also have to fully decrypt it, just exploit it for root.
Where I live, there are still some farmers using tractors from the ~1970s without any problems, if something breaks, they can usually fix it themselves. Meanwhile the John Deere tractors and harvesters cost multiple million euros to purchase and if they break, you have a giant useless brick...
As a guy who repairs game consoles, controllers and other such tech, I really love the right to repair movement, because I can really just compare my collection to eachother, it goes from the OG Nintendo, with simple screws and a fairly modular design, to hidden but easily accessible screws, to a butt ton of screws, to plastic tabs and seams, to nothing being visible on the surface and not even being easily accessible. That’s why I support it, because repair is one of the things I love, and being able to access some of this easier would be great.
So will they or anyone extend the real right to repair issue to cars, you think ? This would be a good advertising point for selling just "cars". It was funny to see luxury cars and models rollback the interior design foto to the older model versions. Because the touch display and whatever features (i associate with a computer) aren't available.
@@legocreatordragon Yeah i don't want it either but almost any new car has some kind of central computer. Over a 15 year period i bough 3 cheap used cars. The first one i could still work on myself, the third one has so much electronic bs. We aren't even talking about the modern fancy features. If i wanted a pc in the car I'd just do that. I don't need android car, bluetooth, cameras, the tracking services etc. I just want a basic car but who offers it ?
Maybe one day, companies that don't allow rights to repair will say that they don't want their "trade secrets" to be found And they will say that planned obsolescence accelerates innovation
Let me get this straight, the central state, which is fully responsible for the existence of monopolies thanks to regulation and subsidies, are punishing those same monopolies? Makes sense to me!
Its the other way around. Powerful companies paying the state to get less regulated and develope monopolies. Its lobbyism of monopolies which makes governments shit.
@@yinyangsaladgang8789 do you think it's a coincide that alt-tech is constantly being smeared in the media? They are absolutely trying to crush their competition when they think they might be a danger. It is indeed quite pedantic. It's like the difference between attempted murder and actual murder. I'd argue that in the context of business, an attempt to monopolization is just as bad as succeeding, since it means that you'll prob have corrupted a few politicians, just not enough yet.
@@yinyangsaladgang8789 Government interference and regulations can help create and facilitate monopolies. Disney for example wouldn't control as much of the market as it does due to the ridiculous copyright laws that extend for pretty much hundreds of years when it originally lasted for only 20 years or so. Another example is Big Pharma which relies on the slow bureaucracy of the FDA and patents. Lot of regulation in general just absolutely kills small businesses. Really it's not that all regulations are bad or that laissez-faire market is good. We need the right type of market liberization in some areas and the right type of laws and regulations in other areas. Theyre not "monopolies" in the strictest sense of the word, they're Oligopolies which is just as bad. However in some markets some of them are like Microsoft's Windows or Google's RUclips where they do hold pretty much a monopoly. While they still have "competition" the "competition" practically ignores each other.
@@herroberbesserwisser7331 They finance politicians and get them to pass more regulations, killing their smaller competition who they then “acquire” for chump change. The money they spend on complying with the regulations may hurt them, but it kills their competition and they make back that money in the long run.
Here’s to hoping FB really gets broken up. Looks like the monopoly rule makers were sleeping when FB bought Insta en Whatsapp. They should do Google next.
Facebook selling Instagram and Whatsapp will be the best thing to happen for those platforms, Instagram is such shit under Facebook's control and I do enjoy the IG platform but not as much as I use to. Really hope it goes through but it's unlikely that will happen.
Hopefully Instagram and WhatsApp will stop logging data like they did under Microsoft. I really want WhatsApp to return to its original promise of privacy.
would be neat if somebody took one of those limp mode tractor onto a major highway and drove it to John Deere and drew a fuck ton of negative attention to John Deere. Imagine if lots of people suddenly wanted to find out what a "limp mode" is
@@nullvoid564 Tilting or kneeling flatbed and a winch, or a Lowboy with a winch. Most dealers have one or the other, and its not uncommon for them to use them to haul disabled equipment. Even in "limp mode" they can be loaded, that is half the point of limp mode, the other is to get it to a spot where it is convenient to load or work on it.
Super stoked to have found your yt account recently. I've watched a handful of your videos and looking forward to watching your past vids....like I'm gonna binge all of them.... thanks for posting frequently. Peace n love A//E
Those new tractors limitations are why a 1952 John Deere Model A with 8000 hours on it are going for for 15-20,000 bucks. My Dad told me of a day when you started your truck and occasionally a ground up barn cat came spewing out as the engines were warm and they would sleep too close to the fans, now the cat will get stuck and break the $4000 plastic fan kit.
Have you ever considered setting up a BBS that can only be accessed over ssh? Seems like a really secure way to communicate and share torrents and other information in this privacy encroaching era.
There are better ways. I2P for web pages and a bunch of other methods. If you are hard-core you can communicate with your buddy over Lo-Ra(1-2km/node range) with encrypted traffic. I imagine sending memes will be something else or nudes.
@@whatever2144 I'm just saying, I think it's an interesting idea, and the tech is so irrelevant that you're not likely to get much notice for anything that you post, especially if you're just using encrypted traffic only. But I agree that something like a tor site or something would probably be the best way to go about things.
Love the farming part, i have like 14 tractors at home and 12 of them run without electricity. Buying all used and hope repair parts are still available
Just another thing that is so bad about how John Deer handles repairs is sometimes the issue makes it to where you cannot move the tractor until it is fixed. In Kansas if that happens in a field while you're racing against a rain storm that $80,000 piece of equipment is going to sink and unless you pay a shit ton of money you're never getting it back. I see this a lot where I live. So I am very glad someone is filing a law suit.
Facebook just paid $60million to buy the trademark for a local bank company named "Metabank" in my State. If they want the name, they'll buy their way to it.
6:58 I use a 1989 Honda 5415 Hydrostatic tractor mower to mow my lawn. It's literally older than me and I can fix anything on it. It's been through some 5 or 6 sets of mower blades in its life at least and is watercooled like a car engine. Makes as much power as a lot of new John Deere's like it, if not more, and still starts every time.
Firmware to run tractors?! I didn’t even know that was a thing. How the hell is an average farmer supposed to begin the make there own repairs? Feels like they’re trying to phase out local farming completely.
It's gone so bad that they have to go to russian hacker code to fix the things, one of those times where I think hacking is necessary, and is really bad excuse on on John Deere part, they're costing these farmers millions of dollars, doesn't John timing any harvest.🤦
I said it before and I'll say it again: you get way funnier with every video! upping the humor really makes the great information stick in your brain. thank you mental outlaw :)
This is what nobody was expecting but everyone wanted.
Lowkey facts man, cheers
Inb4 China buys them up instead
Its the governments fault that we have monopolies in the first place so I dont trust the government to fix the problem
@@notuxnobux hey, someone gets it
Actually I want the absolute societal cancer that is instagram to fail and shut down completely, and if they make it an independent company they'll become more competitive and suck even more of people's time and privacy.
I like how even when Facebook has change name to Meta, people still called them Facebook and be like "no, you're still that same company, nothing changes"
@Denis
You have GRID
@Denis I do have gays, but not for long because I'm gonna commit a hate crime
Same thing happens with Google too.
They only changed their name because they were trying to ditch their terrible reputation. It's a very common corporate tactic, and it works quite well too. It happens all the time, and it should be made illegal. You never get to change your name, so choose wisely. Just like that airline company that kept having fatal crashes. So they changed their name, because nobody would fly with them anymore. Sales were going down the tubes, for good reason. Changed their name - problem solved. Exact same company nothing else changed. That's why it needs to be illegal. It needs to be easy for us to recognize a scumbag company, and companies need to guard their reputations like it's their treasury.
@@enermaxstephens1051 Imagine if a fellon tried to get a job but noone hired him so he changes his name...
Fun fact, in the past tractors were sold and advertised based on how easy it was for your average run of the mill farmer to fix the damn thing on their own. And there was also a lot of push for teaching your usual business owner to fix their own devices and such. My how the times have changed.
Fun fact, in the past things were made so theyd last as long as possible. Now they make things that break as soon as possible. Times have changed.
@@S.O.N.E Now they will make things only work if you pay a subscription
Even worse
Genuinely, outside of cathode ray tubes, not much of the tech over the previous 50 years is all that complicated.
AVE in a recent winter video had a dead battery on a tractor, no codes, he tried to jump it, and immediately it threw a code that disabled it.
He was so pissed.
@@S.O.N.E I mean , if things lasted super long and are actually good, people would just buy 1 time and then the company can expect less sales overall from customers because there's less incentive to buy repeatedly if the old one still works well. But if things break relatively easy while working relatively well, they can guarantee a stream of revenue from repeat customers.
As a farmboy for most of my life, we have a saying about John Derre here.
"Farmers run 40 year old equipment, Rich farmers run 20 year old equipment, Very rich farmers can run new equipment, but only stuped rich ultra wealthy farmers can run new John Deere."
Thank you for that. It makes sense though.
Mfw I read that as "femboy". Kek
Yep
I’m 80 like
@@txe1nd we got a fordson major from 1918 that is gonna run right till the world ends imma tell you!
John Deere, Apple, and Tesla all need to be punished for their anti-right to repair bs
Has tesla been bad about right to repair?
@@the1exnay yes worse then apple to be fair it is in electric car so we’re else are you going to go. But it basically ensures they monopolize the repair market since they can only service your car.
@@Chris-uq4bn One could argue that EVs, especially ones with a lot of firm/soft/hardware inside them, are more complex and harder to repair then regular ICE vehicles, and far fewer people have any experience with them.
@@Chris-uq4bn
I recently saw a tiktok of someone with dubious qualifications successfully repairing their tesla. In the video i did not notice any features designed to make repair hard.
And my googling on the matter hasn't really clarified much, probably because I'm just googling badly
So i would be interested in more elaboration on what tesla has done.
@@the1exnay Yeah, Teslas aren't necessarily hard to repair by design, there's just nowhere to go cuz everything is still very new and expensive.
Your local auto shop might not even HAVE an EV parts distro they work with, even IF the tech knows what he's doing.
Facebook/Meta should also be forced to sell Oculus, they really messed it up forcing everyone to have to use a FB account just to use a VR.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Facebook, is in fact, Facebook/Meta, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Facebook plus Meta. Meta is not a real company unto itself, but rather a cover shell company of a fully functioning monopoly made useful by the glowies, boomers and vital data collection mechanisms comprising a full surveillance program as defined by the feds.
@@user-lt2rw5nr9s Yep, thats why I said Facebook/Meta first as reference to them, Meta is simply a parent company; like Alphabet to Google. This is a well known methodology used by big firms for them to shove all the companies they've acquired under one "family" name and distance their conglomerate from their original company "Facebook" and its history. Especially with Facebook's history of mistrust around the world.
@@user-lt2rw5nr9s bro stfu you understand what he said
@@flako6096 it's a reference to the gnu/linux meme
Fun fact there's a Chicago company called meta
And FaCeBo0k is trying to break them from existence
So its annoying when others just say meta lol
I say Facebook as retaliation to that story that's going on 🤷♂️
To me big tech being regulated will be the biggest court case of our generation.
It will change the world if it does indeed go through.
All we need is one case to win for it all to crumble like dominos.
@@heroslippy6666 No it does not, the freedoms of a people are decided by how things are playing out on the ground, not in the courtroom. Laws get trampled, constitutions torn to shreds, until you can say that the monopoly isn't actually there anymore you should treat a monopoly as if it still is.
@@joshuamitchell5018 If you can get legislation passed in one location then it becomes so much easier to keep the ball rolling.
Isn't this the 20th time some big tech case has been brought up in the past few years alone before being dropped by a completely incompetent judiciary and legislative system? I'll become optimistic when something actually changes and people stop endlessly virtue signaling for political clout.
Whether it does go through or not it will declare the path the world will take.
Right to repair should be an inherent ability the moment you pay for the tractor, and some malevolent corporate chuckle fuck who sits in their office and scratches their balls all day shouldn't have the power to decide what a group of hard working farmers does with it. A step in the right direction, let's hope it keeps moving that way.
Agreed, the moment you buy something, you own that object and have full rights to do whatever you want with it...
@Swim Fan you are right
@@emilv.3693 That's not *strictly* true but it's an ideal we should always strive for
@@stitchfinger7678 if I can't take it apart and ficlx it myself then I don't really own it now do I...
Too bad, shouldn’t signed the EULA then. Vote with your wallet
The John Deere thing is such a nightmare for farmers and rural people in general. This is why companies like Mahindra (an Indian-based tractor manufacturer) and Kubota are becoming more prevalent than Deere.
LOL. You watch too much RUclips.
@@ShainAndrews wha
@@ShainAndrews fellas, is it cringe to be educated in the environment surrounding your occupation?
@@georgecantu856 That is called an internship.
Where? They don't even make a tractor over 150 horse.
Also there is more than John Deere in North America
This is the news I think we have all been waiting for. I just hope that these companies get what they deserve. That being said, if John Deere tractors cannot be repaired by third party repairers, how is that different to what apple has been doing over the past few years against third party repairers. What I want to see is Apple being brought into the spotlight for their shady practices.
Some guys from eastern Europe produced a new operating system for some models a few years back. Not sure how successful that project turned out.
This has been what Louis Rossman has been trying to do for the better part of the last decade. I highly suggest you check out his channel. He is specifically working to get Apple and John Deere to stop these practices, and I think in at least 1 or 2 states, he helped to get laws passed by voicing his concerns to their governments.
@@DarkSwordsman yeah he's a great guy
John Deere is the only man who you can trust to repair John Deere tractors
The way it's different is that it's much easier to take a phone to a repair center then it is a tractor
When I was young, I wanted to work at those companies. Good thing I stopped my network engineer job and change career completely. I hate those big tech companies and their monopoly regime.
@Denis Gay what lol
Same. I wanted to work in Silicon Valley, now i want Silicon Valley to fall into the ocean.
What career are you in now?
@Denis damn, your dads not gonna be happy
@Denis gay
When you see Sneed, you always know it's going to be a good video.
I can't sneed
Shneed
Formerly Chuck's
Another notable new lawsuit is google claiming that Apple is “bullying” them out of market share by making non-iMessage texts green because then people get bullied for not having iPhones.
@@smeggiamagarwine Is a legit thing since in many countries having an iphone is seen as a rich thing and not having means (for this crazies) that google users are poor, filthy and uncivilizatied people that can't afford anything. And as someone who used Blackberry I can say that Google has some merit on the statement however this is not directly done by Apple, is just a marketing ploy hijacked by the stupiest of people.
some people out there probably think “green-texter” is a slur..
And to think I go out of my way to green text
I would bully people for not having green text.
Imagine green-texting outside of japanese chalkboard sketching forums
Signal has an auto delete function, like Snapchat but actually secure. If you are communicating something that you don't want to come to light just go through all that effort of 2 clicks.
Never understood what the point of Snapchat deleting messages was when they aren't encrypted to begin with.
@@j.k.4479 I mean for the average person deleting is enough. It’ll stop most their family snooping around and that’s all they really care about. And for most my friends it adds a feeling of exclusivity to the messages, so I guess those are what most people who aren’t tech savvy are thinking.
@@cruxal1576 I guess to the average person it seems secure but for someone like me it's just an illusion of security.
@@j.k.4479 Well, basis of security is understanding what level of threat we're defending against. I guess stopping 98% of possible "attacks" is good, if threat model you are concerned with is your highschool friend Stacy.
Ofc, users themselves dont know it, and expect it will be effective against more sophistocated attackers too. Like expecting your wooden fence against graffiti kids and opportunity theft will stop a mafia raid.
Use sessions instead. No phone numbers needed at all for extra security.
If Facebook is forced to sell Instagram this will most likely be a big win for the mainstream socialmedia users.
And if Microsoft, Apple, or Google buys it, then what?
@@monarch0243 I said most likely, And Microsoft or Apple are still way better than Zuck.
@@ocsanik502 Ah yes way better (at not getting public attention on the shady things they do)
@@priyapepsi 🤝 bring popcorn 🍿
@@monarch0243 Microsoft accidentially leaks source all the time and Apple atleast has less reasons to track you as hard as the rest because they already make their fortune on morons buying the newest $1,000 phone or buying an IRoller for their foldable phone. Both I'd say are beneficial.
Will this be a Microsoft level situation where the real thing where the government really just says: “give us more money Facebook or else”?
Didn't MS almost get broken and split back then? (before it just became a "give money and we'll go away" situation)
dang I just remembered that
Call me pessimistic, but I'm fairly certain this is the way it will go
"You have to sell Instagram and WhatsApp!"
"No"
"Then pay a fine!"
"Ok"
@@Assault_Butter_Knife That's how it always goes
@@Assault_Butter_Knife *pays 10% of monthly revenue, continues to make shady business*
Nothing's going to get better. Even if they break up the "face" corporations into multiple, everything will still be owned by the same people.
Just shut them down outright so that the shareholders lose their shirts.
Dont even call Facebook Meta even once, for the same reason you should say google something rather than saying look it up. Messes with what the companies want you to do. EDIT: I want to see google become generized trademark asap.
i actually say that all the time. use old school terms like surfing the net. or searching online.
@@atticusherodes6648 I just want to see the trade mark "Google" become generic asap
It's brainwashing, edging on actual lobotomy
Looking it up sounds better than googling to be honest
Meta doesn’t
just search stuff up
aka [insert big corporation names only for entire vocabulary]
Or course the feds could access the oath keepers signal messages. Half of them were feds.
lol
so true
This, assume eveyone is a fed, including your trad wife
@@adozer17 im sorry your hot trad wife is a bioluminesent homosexual
Oh, we going full schizo with this one 🌚
Counting on a corrupt government to deal with corrupt corporations, all while we keep providing those corrupt corporations the support they need to stay in business through our usage of their products (and thus our being their products as well).
And if we suddenly stop buying en masse, they'll be bailed out with your tax money. I'd say that starting with holding the government accountable and votixng out every single rep that does not sign right to repair bills is a good start.
@@robertstan9733 Yeah, sign the Right to Repair bill or you are out. this should be a bipartisan issue.
Saddly a lot of morons are brainwashed to think RtoR is bad for their favorite brand.
@@robertstan9733
Voting doesn’t work anymore with dominion systems and ballot mules running amok at 4 AM on election days.
I suggest everyone stop paying taxes and start taking up arms.
@@combativeThinker average "government is bad trump is better" person
Silly feds, producing messages from the convo you had with your patsy doesn't mean you broke signal encryption.
I first saw this john deere repair BS a few years ago, glad to see it finally moved to the courts. This case is far more important than most people will realize.
For anyone who wants to know, the best makes for tractors and equipment are Farmall, Case, International Harvester and New Holland in my own experience. I don't know about old John Deeres personally, perhaps their older stuff was better before integrated computers got involved. Ford I'd generally stay away from. Ford uses cheap parts and they're designed lousy, they don't care where anything goes. To repair Ford tractors you sometimes have to buy a special tool to reach into tight spaces to loosen a nut, whereas on any other normal tractor it would be easily accessible. Also don't buy replacement parts from China, they're shit. Got a new starter made in China once and straight out of the box the new one was dead.
@kingdomatthi Fendt is good as well
Old Deeres were great and you could depend on them
@kingdomatthi Dont need none of that fancy German tractor mess
Farmall was a line under IHC(International Harvester Company), Case...model dependent, and for a while New Holland was Ford and Ford was New Holland, as Ford owned New Holland for a while, before the Case-IH-New-Holland Merger.
@kingdomatthi "Air cooling is better" lol, that went over so well that they lasted 5 years in North America and lost most of their dealers and markets.(Deutz-Allis)
The Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes lost his eye when he dropped a loaded handgun. Given his poor operation practices of a relatively low tech firearm, I'd not place too much stock in his ability to properly manage his Signal account.-
The FBI also has a history of moles, both in using them and against them. Most likely they find some old looking white agent and have him infiltrate
@@Demopans5990 did you really have to say "white"?
@@banana9056
Yes. It is how the intelligence community operates. Well, one of the ways. The other, pioneered by the KGB, is to use pretty women
@@Demopans5990 ok
It's not over until every John Deere tractor is running a clean distro of Linux instead of Windows ME.
My Tractor uses Arch btw
@@leonthomas7185 ngl, Arch probably would be great on miniboards for those.
Virgin moment
Honestly cannot wait to see Instagram free of Facebooks clutches, the app is unusable compared to it's original version. All the glitches, terrible UI, forced sales pushed on users and inability to remove predators profiles. Not to mention the hiding of content creators when they don't publish content every day.
I remembered finding an old rusted out tractor from the 80s while hiking in the middle of nowhere desert, and then taking it apart and fixing it in a few hours. Of course it didn't drive but with some butane camp fuel the engine ran for a few secs. Then one day I took a look inside a modern tractor, and let's just say I was both terrified and saddened
Signal can also be defeated by a cooperating witness who received encrypted messages.
We have an IMT 533 tractor from 1978. You can repair anything with a few basic tools, it's that simple. The new tractors are just bad, especially because of all those electronics...
The only electronics the IMT has are the light and blinkers... and those don't even work after 44 years lol
The problem is not necessarily the tractor itself. It’s the (software locking physically parts) which is the problem that’s done by the greedy company.
And only requires 1 thing- to use prolom water .Imt je ko golf 2 nema mu smrti
You might be out of blinker fluid, mate
@@oz_jones One blinker got detached in the forest so I think it's not that sadly.
don';t forget they did the same to Oculus, and then on august 5th or 6th 2019? all us legacy owners got a letter stating we could not have our stuff past january 2022, and that facebook was required. best part. the forums had a complaint letter to sign, but to sign it you had to attach your facebook account. win win hey.
Sad to say I don’t have much hope of much being done to stop or even slow down big techs ever overreaching hand
I have hope with the big tech quest actually but with the climate change one I don't.
It can feel pretty dismal, but remember, apathy is the enemy of change.
@@cruxal1576 you speak funny words majic man
@@cruxal1576 I agree, that’s why I comment on stuff like this. It ain’t protesting but the engagement helps spark conversation and spread the message
Stop calling them big tech, the bankers, the deep state, the globalists or the communists already. Call them what they are. Swedes. Darn Swedes every time
am big fan of mental outlaw, he is like a father figure to me.
That's terrible
i admire him too, but like a wise older brother
Daddy issues
To me MO's more like the uncle that corners you every christmas to rant about chemtrails.
@@tetragrade ok leftist
I mean, nearly all major software companies today have some form of quiet embrace, extend, and extinguish model.
Except for the Big G. They just straight up do it with absolute pomp and skip in their step.
We also need the law:
"All software that is available to the public has to be open source, the source code has to be easy to read and easy to access"
"software that support of that has ended must become open source."
If you open-sourced _everything,_ everyone who was into making games for the money would be incentivized to GTFO. I think I like@@kornaros96's approach since they still have a chance to make back what they spent on making that game...
Yes, I'm aware that MTX have been ruining the prices of games for years now - mobile games being a prime offender - but cold turkey's rarely pretty, if ever.
@@RaceBandit a model similar to the pharma industry, you get x amount of time to make you money back on the patent and after that it's fair game.
End of support seems like a decent marker to declare it open source.
@@RaceBandit people would still earn the same amount of money from making software, open source doesnt mean you can just copy. paste and sell it, there are licenses and since everything is open source you would be able to quickly find out if someone steals your code
@@RaceBandit as long the game is free, microtransactions are okay as long they don't impede progression.
God Bless James. May he be in good health and continue to be successful in his actions!
But will it happen? It seems like every couple of years we hear about these monopoly or anti trust charges, but nothing actually happens
:(
This is a big leap for right to repair! Thanks for covering it
Honestly I'd like to see laws the levy huge fines against any company that deliberately incorporate "malicious product design" into their products with the intent to cause the product to fail after a certain point or make that product increasingly difficult to fix on your own. That would be the best scenario.
There are plenty of commercial tools available that can break into devices (especially older ones) and get root access. It's extremely rare that apps like Signal have a flaw, it's the phone itself. The app is on the phone, if you have root then there's nothing preventing you.
There were some scares with discord accounts not too far back and it was suspected that old/outdated phones were a significant source of compromised accounts.
@@heroslippy6666 Essentially. There may even *be* app vulnerabilities, but they just aren't readily exploited in forensic acquisition, there's no need. You have to break into the phone to get to the app (without a pass code at least), and doing the former generally results in a full (decrypted) memory dump, which includes the secure enclave or cryptographic keys used by any apps anyway. With the code for the phone, same story, you just exploit the whole device, but it's even easier because you don't also have to fully decrypt it, just exploit it for root.
THANK YOU for not calling it the horrible terrible no good, bad insurrection. Subscribed.
Where I live, there are still some farmers using tractors from the ~1970s without any problems, if something breaks, they can usually fix it themselves.
Meanwhile the John Deere tractors and harvesters cost multiple million euros to purchase and if they break, you have a giant useless brick...
As a guy who repairs game consoles, controllers and other such tech, I really love the right to repair movement, because I can really just compare my collection to eachother, it goes from the OG Nintendo, with simple screws and a fairly modular design, to hidden but easily accessible screws, to a butt ton of screws, to plastic tabs and seams, to nothing being visible on the surface and not even being easily accessible. That’s why I support it, because repair is one of the things I love, and being able to access some of this easier would be great.
Unless I see the charges, it's like they were never made
I’ll believe it when the politicians start shorting these companies
xD
So will they or anyone extend the real right to repair issue to cars, you think ? This would be a good advertising point for selling just "cars". It was funny to see luxury cars and models rollback the interior design foto to the older model versions. Because the touch display and whatever features (i associate with a computer) aren't available.
Its funny, I dont want a car with a massive screen, all I need is something to get me from point a to b. And maybe an aux cord and the radio
@@legocreatordragon Yeah i don't want it either but almost any new car has some kind of central computer. Over a 15 year period i bough 3 cheap used cars. The first one i could still work on myself, the third one has so much electronic bs. We aren't even talking about the modern fancy features. If i wanted a pc in the car I'd just do that. I don't need android car, bluetooth, cameras, the tracking services etc. I just want a basic car but who offers it ?
I like how these topics are simplified without sacrificing too much context. Glad to see this video is getting traction - it's well-deserved :D
Thank you for producing this excellent content so that we can keep up to date with what is happening in these fields.
100 years ago it was Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel, and Pullman Railroad
Now it's Google, Facebook and Twitter
I dunno man, considering the tribe whose name is illegal to say I'm pretty sure this is nothing but to get people's hopes up.
This. Z 0 G will never break up these corporations.
What is it?
@@neui6997 yehudim
B e r g
No no no! The big companies should get a seat in the American Leadership!
Maybe one day, companies that don't allow rights to repair will say that they don't want their "trade secrets" to be found
And they will say that planned obsolescence accelerates innovation
If signal wasn't secure, they would NEVER have had it publicly known they got info from it.
It's simple logic.
Let me get this straight, the central state, which is fully responsible for the existence of monopolies thanks to regulation and subsidies, are punishing those same monopolies? Makes sense to me!
Yeah im not convinced until we start seeing some actual changes.
Its the other way around. Powerful companies paying the state to get less regulated and develope monopolies. Its lobbyism of monopolies which makes governments shit.
@@yinyangsaladgang8789 do you think it's a coincide that alt-tech is constantly being smeared in the media? They are absolutely trying to crush their competition when they think they might be a danger.
It is indeed quite pedantic. It's like the difference between attempted murder and actual murder. I'd argue that in the context of business, an attempt to monopolization is just as bad as succeeding, since it means that you'll prob have corrupted a few politicians, just not enough yet.
@@yinyangsaladgang8789 Government interference and regulations can help create and facilitate monopolies.
Disney for example wouldn't control as much of the market as it does due to the ridiculous copyright laws that extend for pretty much hundreds of years when it originally lasted for only 20 years or so. Another example is Big Pharma which relies on the slow bureaucracy of the FDA and patents. Lot of regulation in general just absolutely kills small businesses.
Really it's not that all regulations are bad or that laissez-faire market is good. We need the right type of market liberization in some areas and the right type of laws and regulations in other areas.
Theyre not "monopolies" in the strictest sense of the word, they're Oligopolies which is just as bad. However in some markets some of them are like Microsoft's Windows or Google's RUclips where they do hold pretty much a monopoly. While they still have "competition" the "competition" practically ignores each other.
@@herroberbesserwisser7331
They finance politicians and get them to pass more regulations, killing their smaller competition who they then “acquire” for chump change. The money they spend on complying with the regulations may hurt them, but it kills their competition and they make back that money in the long run.
Ah yes, the two tech and media giants- Facebook and John Deere
Here’s to hoping FB really gets broken up. Looks like the monopoly rule makers were sleeping when FB bought Insta en Whatsapp. They should do Google next.
Thanks dude you are always so on point
Facebook selling Instagram and Whatsapp will be the best thing to happen for those platforms, Instagram is such shit under Facebook's control and I do enjoy the IG platform but not as much as I use to.
Really hope it goes through but it's unlikely that will happen.
Hopefully Instagram and WhatsApp will stop logging data like they did under Microsoft. I really want WhatsApp to return to its original promise of privacy.
if instagram breaks free of Facebook i will make an account lol
"Proprietary tractor" is definitely not a word combination I ever expected hearing.
"...the combine will enter limp mode."
I don't think the Combine can limp bro its too powerful.
would be neat if somebody took one of those limp mode tractor onto a major highway and drove it to John Deere and drew a fuck ton of negative attention to John Deere.
Imagine if lots of people suddenly wanted to find out what a "limp mode" is
@@nullvoid564 You can do the same with any modern semi or car too, its not limited to just John Deere.
Usually its emissions related.
@@J-1410 yes but cars are tiny and take 5 minuets to toe but a gargantuan piece of agricultural equipment that requires a specialist
@@nullvoid564 Tilting or kneeling flatbed and a winch, or a Lowboy with a winch. Most dealers have one or the other, and its not uncommon for them to use them to haul disabled equipment. Even in "limp mode" they can be loaded, that is half the point of limp mode, the other is to get it to a spot where it is convenient to load or work on it.
Super stoked to have found your yt account recently. I've watched a handful of your videos and looking forward to watching your past vids....like I'm gonna binge all of them.... thanks for posting frequently. Peace n love A//E
Glad to know, I am not the only one who moves those books
Why does a tractor need a computer. A tractor should be one of the most simple industrial machines out there.
Oh boy, we're slowly shifting back into the right time line!
Thank you Judge James, very cool!
I hope it goes through.
Today I was surprised to find I was not subscribed to you,
I swiftly rectified this.
Can't wait for facebook to somehow weasel out of this one.
Lobby*
I think you mean lizard. That's not a weasel under Zuck's skin suit.
Those new tractors limitations are why a 1952 John Deere Model A with 8000 hours on it are going for for 15-20,000 bucks.
My Dad told me of a day when you started your truck and occasionally a ground up barn cat came spewing out as the engines were warm and they would sleep too close to the fans, now the cat will get stuck and break the $4000 plastic fan kit.
Fingers crossed.
Glad to hear the news about signal. I had already began the search for another messaging application
Have you ever considered setting up a BBS that can only be accessed over ssh? Seems like a really secure way to communicate and share torrents and other information in this privacy encroaching era.
Spies are everywhere
There are better ways.
I2P for web pages and a bunch of other methods.
If you are hard-core you can communicate with your buddy over Lo-Ra(1-2km/node range) with encrypted traffic.
I imagine sending memes will be something else or nudes.
@@whatever2144 I'm just saying, I think it's an interesting idea, and the tech is so irrelevant that you're not likely to get much notice for anything that you post, especially if you're just using encrypted traffic only. But I agree that something like a tor site or something would probably be the best way to go about things.
thank you, mental outlaw, for always bringing us the spiciest new. Your Service is much appreciated !!
>expecting the government to fix the problem they created in the first place
WEW LAD
Love the farming part, i have like 14 tractors at home and 12 of them run without electricity. Buying all used and hope repair parts are still available
Big Tech? More like Bloat Tech
Just another thing that is so bad about how John Deer handles repairs is sometimes the issue makes it to where you cannot move the tractor until it is fixed. In Kansas if that happens in a field while you're racing against a rain storm that $80,000 piece of equipment is going to sink and unless you pay a shit ton of money you're never getting it back.
I see this a lot where I live. So I am very glad someone is filing a law suit.
Thumbs up for Sneed.
Thank goodness John Deere is under fire. Screw them for locking the tractors. Can we get Monsanto in the courtroom next?
I've been ranting about how these companies are all monopolies for years. It's funny how many people don't realize they're monopolies
I'd like to appreciate how nice the video editing is getting
Reminder: FACEBOOK DOES NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE NAME META
Facebook just paid $60million to buy the trademark for a local bank company named "Metabank" in my State. If they want the name, they'll buy their way to it.
This pleases me, immensely.
"...So hopefully this class action lawsuit actually does get some traction."
I get it! Because they're *TRACTORS!* haha.. ha.. ha... ha....
I'm sorry.
This is the same with a rav4 when the battery dies it can't be jump started or replaced because it tells you to take it to a dealership
2025 John Deere update: they add a kill switch for stop the production of corn crops for keep the market prices high
The first 14 seconds alone deserve a like. Could have made a Short just of that.
Finally, these cases shoulda happened a decade ago.
Thanks for letting us know that you've been moving the books
I think they didn't pay that judge well
YES! This was the moment I've been waiting for 5 years!
didn't even know John Deere was that big
6:58 I use a 1989 Honda 5415 Hydrostatic tractor mower to mow my lawn. It's literally older than me and I can fix anything on it. It's been through some 5 or 6 sets of mower blades in its life at least and is watercooled like a car engine. Makes as much power as a lot of new John Deere's like it, if not more, and still starts every time.
YES FINALLY! Im seriously hoping something gets done about these companies, ESPECIALLY facebook, mark is truly evil
Firmware to run tractors?! I didn’t even know that was a thing. How the hell is an average farmer supposed to begin the make there own repairs? Feels like they’re trying to phase out local farming completely.
It's gone so bad that they have to go to russian hacker code to fix the things, one of those times where I think hacking is necessary, and is really bad excuse on on John Deere part, they're costing these farmers millions of dollars, doesn't John timing any harvest.🤦
Let's just pray that these lawsuites get passed and they need to split
In a world where I just assume everything goes wrong until it proves otherwise. This was a pleasant surprise .
I said it before and I'll say it again: you get way funnier with every video! upping the humor really makes the great information stick in your brain. thank you mental outlaw :)
"If you had a problem throw money at it. It always works"
-Walt Disney
Huh, looks like the government is doing something right. For once… Good job 👍
The Jan 6th “mostly peaceful protests”.