Victory Is Sweet: We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines
www.ifixit.com
The Copyright Office just handed down a big Right to Repair win: we can now legally repair commercial food preparation equipment, including McDonald’s machines.
  • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    5 days 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 building 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.

    • why_not_start_over@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Ifixit has been a community driven repair site for over 20 years. It was indispensable for repairing apple laptops when they were still transitioning to Intel from PowerPC. I haven’t kept up with all the changes, but they sell tools and parts now. Even from a jaded perspective one can see the right to repair is in their best interest.

      • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Well, that sounds promising at least. I hope their interests continue to align with their consumer-base for another 20 years, and doesn’t nosedive into the CEO rot we’ve seen with Mozilla