While strange to an outsider, all of these usage modifications have one thing in common: they allow the Amish to employ technology in a manner that doesn’t disrupt their way of life.

Hackers could put together some of those devices from chips and discrete components, but without the culture for that -- and I doubt fixing pneumatic tools and diesel generators translates fully to word processors -- they will never develop their own rugged electronics with intuitive, unobtrusive interfaces.

It's not that they're intentional about technology, because the implementation details don't matter after a certain point. They're intentional about workflows, interfaces, and dependencies. There are parallels there to high-tech programming cultures, too.