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[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Every upgrade in John Deere equipment of the same model is installed on every unit sold, just unplugged, because it’s cheaper to have the same build process.

School bus transmissions have been like this for over 25 years. They're all built with 6 gears but if you only want 5 gears (which is ironically is all most school districts actually want) they just disable 6th gear. It used to be that there was a little bit of missing hardware (which could be added later for a considerable price) but now it's just disabled in software. In the skoolie community (people like me who buy used buses and convert them to motorhomes) you can get your software-disabled transmission upgraded to a six-speed for a few hundred bucks (dubious legality but who gives a fuck).

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Time to hack some John Deere hardware, I suppose.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ukrainian hackers have been doing custom John Deere firmware for ages I believe.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 points 13 hours ago
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yo fuck john deere pass it on

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

pass it on

(100 iterations later)

"Yo, John fucks deer, pass it on!"