IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines

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• uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  While there is feel good framing, write ups like this just reinforce what a dystopian hell hole we live in. It is depressing.

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re not wrong, but I’d still encourage everyone to celebrate the small victories. If we wait for perfection it may never come.

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    • Benjaben@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the merely good” is one (imo important) way to state it.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      as long as we are walking forwards, and not backwards or sideways, we can go one step at a time.

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The only Victory I see in my medium term future is leaving the country. The US is fucked and honestly I don’t see that recovering any time soon

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Plus it’s still an improvement over the alternative.

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah this bit is a shame. The exception only covers bypassing DMCA protections to fix your own stuff not distributing the tooling for it.

  It is still a crime for iFixit to sell a tool to fix ice cream machines, and that’s a real shame. The ruling doesn’t change the underlying statute making it illegal to share or sell tools that bypass software locks. This leaves most of the repair work inaccessible to the average person, since the technical barriers remain high. Without these tools, this exemption is largely theoretical for many small businesses that don’t have in-house repair experts.

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  • vonbaronhans@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Long hard fight.

    We take our Ws where we can get them.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Illegal like sharing pirated media.
    It can’t be commercialised, but if you just “happen” to find the software somewhere, you are allowed to use it.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They should do like the folks selling weed in DC, where they sell you a $200 cookie or sticker and give you a free ounce of weed with your purchase.

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  • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder if someone could invent a new open source machine of some sure along with a tool to fix that, and that tool just happens to also be able to fix the McDonald’s ice cream machines?

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    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, you could. The problem becomes “do you have more money and lawyers than McDonald’s” to keep pretending it has nothing to do with it in court.

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• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s great, but I’m sure Taylor (ice cream machine manufacturer) will still void your warranty, and McDonald’s corporate will still tell you you’re required to have Taylor service it. There were blackboxed control bypass devices for these machines that let them run longer and self-clean better, but McDonald’s sent out a memo requiring all franchisees to remove them and only allow Taylor to work on those machines.

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• Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sweet! Sub par soft-serve for everyone!

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  • turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not even cheap anymore :(

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    • unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Was McDonalds ever cheap in the first place?

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    • model_tar_gz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Costco’s soft-serve is way better than McD’s and actually is cheap.

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  • citrusface@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe not now since we can hack it

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• buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  McDonald’s franchisees being forced to buy one specific problematic ice cream machine is ducked up on it’s own. Let them choose what works.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The whole situation is ducked IMO.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My ice cream came with bronzer smeared all over the cone last time I went there.

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No extra charge?

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• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “You are allowed to repair the thing you own”

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why would you buy an ice cream machine from McDonalds? They have bland food and cut cola with hygiene problems in their ice machines.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you run a franchise, you have to get the machine from a specific vendor. That vendor makes a killing charging for their techs to come over to fix those machines. There’s some videos on YouTube that explain how the scam works.

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  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would anyone even eat there?

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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This company sure has been making the rounds on the internet. I estimate maybe 1-2 years before they decide to cash in on their goodwill with some kind of monetary product

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ifixit? They’ve been selling tools for years, and they’re great.

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  • Wootz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am honestly not sure if you’re joking or not

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not really. Who are these guys and why am I hearing about them on every social media outlet.

      They’re a company whose sole aim is to make money. Right now they’re in the goodwill phase of bed lding community trust, but what’s their endgame? Is this an emerging market they’re cornering.

      I know these sound like sarcastic questions, but I’m genuinely wondering.

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• ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think I’ve ever ordered ice-cream from McDonald’s. Not exactly the type of product I’d go to a hamburger joint for.

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  • Pieisawesome@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While McDonald’s ice cream isn’t great, hamburger joints are usually a great spot for ice cream and milkshakes

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Their ice cream and McFlurry is used to be really good for the value

    I say used to because they more or less butchered the McFlurry in the past 7 years they no longer have the iconic spoons they’ve removed the packaging replacing it with a slightly smaller packaging and they’ve increased the cost by about double.

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  • insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s all I used to go there for, but not sure if it’s different ice-cream in Europe.

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• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you cant sell/buy a tool but i wonder if you can hire a contractor to build you one.

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  • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just transfer ownership to the company that has the tools and lease it back.

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  • locuester@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This was exactly what I thought. You could start a staffing company that supplied skilled temp workers with this skill set.

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• Sho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thumbnail isn’t even a Mcds unit.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well they weren’t allowed to before

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• chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  World on fire and there are people worried about repairing ice cream machines of an evil corporation and consider it a “victory”. Depressing

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  • turtletracks@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The right to repair is pretty significant.

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  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Theres quite a lot of humans on this planet. collectively we are capable of performing more than a single task y’know

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Repairing things helps reduce the endless resource expediture and trash creation. Ice cream machines are just a random example. As you can read in the article they were going for much more, and more significant stuff, but got denied.

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