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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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amaditalks, to random
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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!

erosdiscordia, to random
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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:

ifixcoinops,
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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

ieure, to random
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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

ifixcoinops, to random
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(last couple boosts) Folks, you got something important to share about a war or a protest or a court case or an election, you want it to reach as many people as possible, for goodness' sakes CW it. CW'd posts get boosted more, whether or not you think they should.

ifixcoinops,
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This immigrant with Enough Anxiety Already has unfollowed sooooo many people this year

ifixcoinops, to random
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Just put a new brush gearbox assembly in my 500-series Roomba, and gave it a bit of a service and ran diagnostics while I was in there.

Results:
Dirt detect LED failed
Outer right light-touch opto failed
Front left LT opto failed
Front right LT opto failed
Centre right LT opto failed
Castor stasis-sensing opto failed

Since this series of Roomba was released in 2007, all the floor robot companies have fallen over themselves to add room-mapping AI, cameras, wifi, all kinda stuff, while the old 500 series pop up on Craigslist for fifty-odd bucks

Right now mine is downstairs bumping its nose against walls and furniture with absolutely no idea where it's going or what it's doing because most of its sensors are busted

And yet my carpets are getting clean while I sit on my ass writing this post

ifixcoinops,
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@davepolaschek My relationship with the machines in my house is more like

🤖 BEEP BOOP I HAVE WORKED HARD BUT NOW I AM BROKEN PLEASE MAY I DIE
🦝 lol no, I spent like seventy bucks on you, you're not getting off that easily you little bollocks

ifixcoinops, to random
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Finally starting on that Firepower playfield swap I've been putting off for three years and... huh

The ink didn't rub off, the bottom of three of these E's aren't even recessed like the others

Guess I bought a Firepowfr

hannah, to random
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You used to be able to invent a fucked up giant tuba and present it to the king. And then the Democrats took that away

ifixcoinops,
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@hannah thanks Obama 😠

ifixcoinops, to random
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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 #gameDad website and see if it holds up under the Fedi Hug, here ya go lol

https://gamedad.club

ifixcoinops,
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@acetone_kitten that was one of the very few Different Phones I considered before settling on a FairPhone 4 and I often wonder whether I made the right choice

ifixcoinops,
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@crazybutable not off the top of my head, but the PS2-capable things are basically handheld PC's, think Steam Deck style of things. Not happening for under 300

ifixcoinops,
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@crazybutable what kind did you get? If it runs RetroArch then if I remember right you can remap controls per emulator or per game, although the process for saving your changes is pretty counter-intuitive

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

ifixcoinops, to random
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🦆🐰🐺🐇🐭🐨🐴 we're all gonna visit 🐧's site at once to make a link preview
🦝 ooo, you shouldn't do that
🐧 I'm going to serve each of you six whole damn megabytes
🦝 ooo I've got another shouldn't just for you
🐧 maybe I should post about why is my site so slow
🦝 furtling for crumbs at the bottom of the Shouldn't Bag ooooo
🦊🦅🐗🐫 let's post about how none of this is actually a problem for anyone
🦝 turning the Shouldn't bag upside down and shaking it oh god hang on one at a time ONE at a TIME

ifixcoinops,
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@Weirding_Is_Real also refers to a long-obsolete form of pornography!

ifixcoinops, to random
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Having one of those "Captain it's Tuesday" weeks here

ifixcoinops,
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This bloody cat's still alive and naughtier than ever and MAN is he eager to eat my dinner

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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