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iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them

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TechnologyEnglish · 2 years ago

iFixit tears down a notoriously unreliable McDonald’s ice cream machine: “The error codes are nonsensical, counterintuitive, and seemingly random.”

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BTW, fixing broken machines’ software (printers) was how Richard Stallman got so frustrated to invent the GPL license…
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