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iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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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.
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.
https://piped.video/SrDEtSlqJC4?si=F9x-GPjuXEaSk7zO
Yeah, sounds more like a feature of cheap ice cream machines than malicious intent.