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There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Not sure why.
It’s a running joke. But nobody is actively furious that they can’t get their soft serve from McDonald’s outside the weirdos who eat McDonald’s daily.
It’s soft serve. It’s not hard to find.
It’s precisely because it’s so well known and such an egregious example of the absurdity of anti right to repair legislation. ifixit has a vested interest in the success of right to repair laws expanding, but they are up against multimillion dollar companies. And trying to set legal precedent on anything is hard, so it helps if you can get momentum on cracks in the current system.
This isn’t about folks ability to get shitty ice cream from a fast food joint, this is about pushing right to repair laws.
It’s a problem that ultimately McDonald’s doesn’t care to fix.
If they cared then they would stop using these machines and go with a different manufacturer. They’ve had this problem for over a decade and have had plenty of time to address it. They won’t because they just don’t care.
People go else where if they want ice cream and it doesn’t seem to bother McDonald’s at all.
It’s also that franchisees are forced to purchase the machine and get them fixed often under very expensive maintenance plans. McD’s benefits from this due to alleged kickbacks from Taylor.
So in other words corporate McDonalds is exploiting their franchises? Why am I not surprised.