There’s an amazing story in Wired earlier this year that goes into the whole saga in huge detail. There’s exclusive contracts and, it feels like, kickbacks going on.

Would anyone, given the option, even go to McDonald’s for ice cream if there is a Dairy Queen remotely nearby? I guarantee their machines are in working order.

Summing up that video:

the summary is yes, the machines are actually always broken. mcdonalds requires its franchisees to use uniform equipment which means they all use the same ice cream machine. the idea in theory is a uniform customer experience. the problem is Taylor, the company that makes the machines takes advantage of this and…

I don’t know why the WSJ is mischaracterizing this as a McFlurry issue. The issue is with the soft serve ice cream machines. The actual “McFlurry machine” just spins the plastic spoon around to blend in toppings and works just fine.

Sidenote to what everyone else is pointing out. The same company Taylor, also makes machines for Wendy’s and Chick-fil-A and those machines never have random errors. Also when franchise owners outsourced software fixes to a third party that totally made the machines reliable, McDonald’s corporate gave them a…

I read a huge article about this awhile back, at Wired, it’s a rollercoaster of an article, but basically yeah, the machines are almost purposely janky, sometimes almost purposely sabotaging themselves, and it takes forever to get a repair guy.... so these other guys (Kytch) made a really good diagnostic tool that…

All I want is a 10 inch, color, eink tablet. I have so many ways to watch TV, give me something to READ on.

I do a lot of inking on my surface pro 6 and it works pretty well. PDFs work fine, but Word is actually really good for doing pen annotation now, so if you can do word/text docs I’d highly recommend the SP.

No carrier has good service at my house (the plan was built behind a farm, residents sued to stop a cell tower from actually being built). I wound up switching to T-Mobile. They gave me a device that plugs into my router and acts like a mini cell tower. Full bars of LTE goodness in my house, now.

I think that, to a lot of people, it’s easy to give up a tiiiny bit of a routine paycheck. Getting it all back later (possibly even more than you saved) can really help people, whether it’s paying for a large expense or paying off debt. Since they don’t have it in their own account, it’s easier not to spend it, I…

No I just messed up my withholding amount and they weren't taking enough and I didn't notice

Stop demonizing Tom Nook!  He gives you a house in good faith and never asks nothing from you ever, he don’t even give a hoot about your credit score, he’s a chill guy!

Seriously. My wife and I are currently looking into buying our first house, and I think we’d both love to have a greedy raccoon as our mortgage lender, especially since he lets you go months without paying a dime. 

Not only that, but from the rates he charges, I think he’s literally only charging you for materials, idk if he’s even charging labor. All that on an interest free loan.

i still declare tom nook a good guy. selling you a house w 0 interest and no plan on the loan isn't being greedy.

Can\should the termination of the employees be validated? Walk in and see if those guys are still around. It’s easy for the dealer to say that they have taken the matter seriously and have fired all who were involved to placate the customer and then do nothing.

I bet the same dealership would try to void the warranty if they saw the owner driving like this. 

Tire life impacted. Fact. Brake life impacted. Fact. Differential, axle, U joint, and clutch experienced stress and took away service life there also. The owner should be given a new car. When someone buys a car and babies it no one should be allowed to rob that from them. They no longer own a car that has never been…

Key: they should work with him, they screwed it up.