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Comment I've hired Gen Zers, and I am not impressed. (Score 2, Insightful) 109

They tend to be scared to try new things, un-interested in being at work on time or even during standard hours, entitled, and have no interest in paying their dues, often expecting a salary that is more appropriate for someone with 10 years of experience. "I don't want to build stuff" I was told by a recent mechanical engineering grad. "I want to design stuff". Hey kid, you will be a far better engineer in the long run if you learn how to build stuff for a few years, especially if the parts are poorly designed. You will quickly learns what works and what doesn't.

Comment Laser FTW (Score 2) 92

Years ago I worked for a company that made equipment for digital printing. No printers, just other pre-press equipment. A bean counter up the hierarchy figured out that inkjet ink cost $1,000 per litre retail. The company immediately started work on an industrial, wide format inkjet printer for banners and posters and such because the ink was so profitable. Go with a laser printer.

Comment Re:Plus its a fraud (Score 1) 137

I have no issue with it taking a reasonable time. But this complaint is now decades old. They've had government handouts to provide better rural access based on fees for the entirety of the century so far IIRC or close enough.
And we've been paying the fees for that long. So if that money hasn't been used for what I paid for I want it back.

Comment Re:It's about time the national security question (Score 1) 107

The problem with your scenario here is that in a lot of cases the farmer can't get the right part at all, and if they don't get that field taken care of by their really expensive machine within the next 3 days they lose the harvest.

Magnuson-Moss exists for a reason, and one of its functions protects manufacturers as they can deny claims if they can establish that duct tape and crazy glue broke the machine.

Deere's actions are to circumvent individuals rights to repair so they can control the repair chain to further pad their profits, nothing more.

Comment Re: It's about time the national security questio (Score 1) 107

No, the problem is Deere is engaging in activities to lock out people's ability to repair their own stuff, then not having the capacity to do it themselves. Circumventing Right to Repair is scummy on its own, but their unwillingness or inability to handle the service load they created has knock-on effects that are incredibly disruptive to food supply. And that's the kind of thing that drives farms out of business and can/does lead to food scarcity issues.

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