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Machinery shipped to users usually do not allow for the users of the machinery to "boot into safemode". Thank John Deere and the anti-"Right to Repair" crowd for that.


I doubt it was shipped from the factory with CrowdStrike, and if they had enough access to install it, they have enough access to fix it.


These things are "cost optimized" and don't feature the kind of remote management iDRAC/openBMC/piKVM that would allow it to be remotely fixed. Embedded windows connected to the internet is super ***.


You can doubt, but you literally don’t know.




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