iFixit wants to fix McDonald’s ice cream machines for good.

iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines::McDonald’s ice cream machines are notorious for breaking all the time, so iFixit wants to help people repair them without the help of the manufacturer.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Company also added script to stop the device from working. Something like that.

    I don’t think it’s quite that devious. That kind of “feature” would probably be racketeering and ripe for lawsuit. I think it’s more that the machines are temperamental as fuck and the methods to fix the machines are kept under a very tight lid.

    • blabber6285@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      131·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, an incorrect cleaning procedure can cause a error that requires maintenance personnel to reset the error. They don’t need to do anything else though, it’s completely fine to just do the cleaning again. Stuff like that.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, sounds more like a feature of cheap ice cream machines than malicious intent.