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ifixcoinops

@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Hello! I fix #pinball machines and #arcade games, and tell you all about it! I fix lots of other things too, and occasionally tell you about that. I also run one of the web's longest-surviving #textAdventure games, called Improbable Island, and I often write here on Fedi about decade-scale online community management stuff. Husband, dad, professional Thing Fixer and amateur woodworker in my early 40's, an #immigrant from the UK to the USA. Gun enthusiasts pls do not follow/interact.

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ifixcoinops, (edited ) to random
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Damn I gotta play my garden music more

(once she's gone, obvs)

ifixcoinops,
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@apzpins I think it's a sort of medium bird

ifixcoinops,
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@peterainbow it took roughly "Oh, I should move that nest before she finishes - oops I didn't move it" long

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the sun is chasing out the deluge of rain and clouds and the sky is lightening.

hail the damn orb. that fucker sure comes through.

ifixcoinops,
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@djsundog this sounds lovely <3

ifixcoinops, to random
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Got a CRT telly with a HDMI input a couple years ago as a Goodwill impulse buy for 99 cents. Works and everything, tested it in the shop.

It's sat under a pinball for two years while I find room to set it up, I never once tried plugging anything into it

Anyway I've found somewhere for it to live and started making plans for a stand and figured I'd test it and found out it's a piece of shit lol

ifixcoinops,
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Muggins arcade-monitor-bloke here was all "Aye it's a tube all right, if it goes fssss when I turn it on then the flyback's good and whatever's wrong with it I can fix or adjust out"

Haha wait lemme find the trim pot labelled "Made of shit"

ifixcoinops,
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It was a Samsung and it was 99 cents so I figured hey, it's a Samsung, it's here for a good time not a long time, and hell maybe Samsung was good in 2006

Nah turns out they were just as shit in 2006 as they are today

ifixcoinops,
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I'm just glad I've got enough of an eye for monitors to be able to tell what can be adjusted to be better and what's just, like... the problem is literally just that it's a bad TV made of junk and it should never have been built in the first place

ifixcoinops,
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literally how the hell did samsung get so big and rich when absolutely every single thing they make is garbage

ifixcoinops,
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@tehstu I had Samsung phones for a while until I realised I had Samsung phoneS, plural, in unnecessarily rapid succession

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@ajroach42 I dunno, but I know Samsung didn't

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I never imagined that at the age of 51 I would be completely completely over and done with driving at night. I used to intentionally drive at night, sometimes just to do it. But now if I have to go out after dark, I don’t like it. I feel like this is a major aging thing and I don’t like that either. I mean, I’m happy to be alive to age, but the rest of it is rather shitty.

ifixcoinops,
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@amaditalks TBH I'm hearing this from people in their 20's and 30's now. Headlamps and streetlights have gotten so bright you never get your night vision going. For the first time in decades road fatalities are actually going up!

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All this to say --

Thank you all, for the kindness you've shown me on here for the past 5 years.

You might have known me long enough to have heard me thank you for this years in the past. I still really mean it -- yeah even you, sitting there discouraged, thinking your gestures of friendship and generosity don't do enough to change things.

What you give makes a difference. It frees people. It's helped to free me. :aheartdrawn:

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@erosdiscordia <3

troublewithwords, to random
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If you're just going to call anything that uses electricity "electronics" then I'm going to call anything that uses gravity "gravitronics".

My drip coffee maker?
Gravitronic coffee maker.

That grandfather clock?
Gravitronic clock.

The slide on the children's play set?
Gravitronicly-powered play.

ifixcoinops,
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@troublewithwords not sure if intended to be snark but accidentally rad as hell or just straight-up unalloyed rad as hell

ifixcoinops, to random
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LB:

🐺 pulling face down behind hands
🐺 okay
🐺 I have a VERY SPECIFIC REQUIREMENT
🐺 for which I need advice from an EXPERT
🐺 as in, someone who ACTUALLY KNOWS
🐺 lights another cigarette from the butt of the last one
🐺 if google were any use at all, I wouldn't be here
🐺 don't comment if you're just guessing and don't actually know the answer
🙂 I asked chatgpt for you
🐺
🐺🔪
🐺🔪🙂
🐺🔪🙃

cpi, to random
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how embarassing that George Fucking Gomez has to personally console a bunch of babies nursed on Fox News outrage pablum because a machine doesn't have guns

ifixcoinops,
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@cpi but does Keanu eat the ball

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ifixcoinops,
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@ieure

ifixcoinops, to random
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Periodic reminder that I'll advertise your weird hobby website to my Improbable Island players for free, no catch, https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php

Why? Because google doesn't like it when people give away what they're trying to sell, and fuck those guys lol

ifixcoinops,
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@minterpunct added their lovely https://bluelander.neocities.org/ website and will now get looked at by weird text-adventure fans, y'all could be next

Bobbins, to random
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Which of you buggers have a videogame related blog, channel or site I can link to from mine? Gimme those sweet, sweet URLs.

ifixcoinops,
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@Bobbins not much at gamedad.club yet but I'll lazily update it here and there

Also if you've got a 468x60 banner image, I'll stick it on Improbable Island, https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php

ifixcoinops, (edited ) to random
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Alright so you know how there are RGB LED strips, where each LED is individually addressable, right? How each LED has a little chip that waits patiently for its turn to get a colour instruction from the MPU controlling it?

Has some cleverclogs invented That But For Switches, where I can get a bunch of little switches with chips built in and just run them all to the same damn pin, or am I stuck building a switch matrix like a chump

EDIT: Cheers Fedi, think I'm on the right track now. Don't worry, I'm not gonna try and do anything timing-sensitive like a pinball machine or anything haha

ifixcoinops,
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@yngmar dat's der bunny cheers

ifixcoinops,
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🦝 Is anyone being pressed?
🐰 not me, how about you, 🐵?
🐵 no siree, how about you, 🐌?
🦊 no pressing here, how about you, 🐺?

Fine, except three bucks a chip

Oh well, wires and diodes are still cheap, matrix it is then

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Yaknowwhat, it's not by any means ready yet but I'm heading out the door in a minute so I'm just gonna post my website and see if it holds up under the Fedi Hug, here ya go lol

https://gamedad.club

ifixcoinops,
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@venya that'll do ye nicely! What colour didja get?

I'm currently changing my daughter's 35xx from GarlicOS to Koriki; the GarlicOS one saved/shut down instantly when pressing the power button, resuming right back at the game, and I was all "Wow that's cool, wonder how it shuts down so quick without corrupting the SD card," turns out it doesn't

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Having one of those "Captain it's Tuesday" weeks here

ifixcoinops,
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When a cat wants to eat your dinner so he eloooongaaaaates himself so his snout can get closer, like his whole body is becoming snout-shaped, he's Snouting, he's Becoming Snout, he is Snoutbeast, we say "Out, snout!" we say "I have to go to the bathroom, guard my dinner from snout"

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