Fuck yeah, and fuck any company that does that shit
I.e. Apple
That’s the first one that came to mind. They started every shitty trend in the industry
Is John deere exempt?
Nah, fuck those mother fuckers. As a former farmer myself, I can tell you that fixing my own shit was an almost life or death situation. I can’t just leave my crops without my machines more than a day. Shit needs to work right away. I used to grow rice and it needed constant flow of cold river water for 6 months straight
up. I had two diesel water pumps on the river, one is running 24/7 and the other is back up in case the other broke. If that shit broke and I waited for a day or two without giving the rice cold water, it all dies. Completely dies
“We need to cut down the insane cycle of churning through personal electronics”
Translation: We need to slow down the pace of innovation!
The innovation of DRM and Intels SGX extention is the reason no current-gen PC can play 4K Blurays in 4K.
Of course they can! You just need to download your blurays from reputable sources.