McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map McBroken and found that 34 percent of the machines in the state of New York were reported inoperable. As I write this, the nationwide number of broken machines is just above 14 percent.

To improve the nation’s semi-frozen milk fat infrastructure, iFixit has done two things. One, as first reported by 404 Media, is to join with interest group Public Knowledge to petition the Copyright Office for an exemption allowing people to fix commercial equipment, such as McDonald’s ice cream machines and other industrial kitchen equipment, without fear of reprisal under Section 1201 of the DMCA.

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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    1 year ago

    I’ve watched the fascinating YouTube documentary on it but it still seems crazy that the company is fighting so hard to stay shitty and terrible. They’ve attacked people trying to help too, like wtf?

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      1 year ago

      That’s how you can make money. There’s a financial incentive to be a piece of shit many times, unfortunately.

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        1 year ago

        Crapitalism: When you take capitalism and remove meaningful regulation.

          • bobman@unilem.org
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            1 year ago

            Whatever you call it, the end goal is always to make rich people richer while everyone else stagnates or loses.