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. Pronoun He
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I can echo that round here at least (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) library noticeboards are Good Shit npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops The bloody leg levellers are seized up so it was a folded-up bit of cardboard situation and it made me want to be in the beer garden stuffing a beer mat under a table corner npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Kitten chases spouse's yarn around and around a bed leg, but like the hidden Fifth Leg in the middle of the bed, would take ages to untangle it while flattened against the floor, pick up the bed and spouse pulls out the yarn and an hour later my neck hurts??? because I'm in my 40's now??? this is bullshit??? npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Kiddo: 🐀 I've been playing a lot of Kitsune Tails lately npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Me: trying to have a weekend lie-in npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Shouting at the radio on the drive home because they were on about the kids' social media ban and how it might drive some children to DARK CORNERS of the INTERNET and like npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops "We can totally fix the world with software" I say as I add another wing to my castle built on sand npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Tough scroll for FOSS this morning, something shady going on with Calibre, something shady going on with SyncThing, something shady going on with F-Droid, it's almost as if free software has a functional society as one of its dependencies and none of this shit works in a social environment where people are emboldened to be arseholes npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Mab: thing is Mab shape, thing is Mab colour, thing is Mab size, Mab will insert Mab npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Local Goodwill had a pallet of computers for $45 npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Friend of mine is finally sick of windows enough to ask me about linux so tonight I'm gonna turn up at their house with an old laptop with a new mint installation while wearing this npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @nprofile…zft4 tbh rather have that sort than the other sort npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Seeing CW: Inflation and... hesitating npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Sharpied on my belly at 11am: "Free Use" npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops LB: remembered that I'm giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business. npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Remember ringtones? In the time between mobile phones that went BEEP and the current societal compact that phones should be on vibrate and never make a sound, custom ringtones were big business. npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Here's my Element's plastic panels after a 50/50 mix of boiled linseed oil and paint thinner, brushed on, left to sit a couple minutes then buffed off. Took 20 years off them, easy. Check out the bumper and running board beneath this panel for a "before" example, they went from chalky faded shite to proper colour just like that, took maybe 40 minutes to do the whole car. npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Y'know when you're doing this big multi-step DIY project that involves doing many things and getting parts and tools and materials and you're holding all this stuff in your head and you notice how much of a big noisy scrungly mess it is up there, all the thoughts and worries and tasks overlapping each other like spaghetti all going in different directions, and you grumble "This is ridiculous, a guy can't get anything done with all that yammering going on," so you start up the computer and the text editor and write out what's going on up there, not because you don't know what's going on but just because thoughts go wibblywoobly like gummy worms and writing goes left to right in a straight line and to turn your oh-I-need-to-do-this-and-that thinkings into a ah-I-need-to-do-this-THEN-that shaped Plan you need to untangle the spaghetti and make it go in the long straight writing-shaped hole npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops 🐹 Aye cheers, hope you enjoy it, don't go fillin' it up wi' bones, any problems just give us a ring npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Got a project that's gonna involve shaping a bit of hill so I got myself a garden roller npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops My dad: 🐺 I actually agree with this new law npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops I'm old enough to remember when THE SEATBELT LAW was new npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops 🦝 So you've made a great program that pisses all over the paid alternatives, great, now for the love of god please delegate the naming of that software to someone Normal so you don't end up calling it something like Kalculator npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Free software people I am begging you to stop naming your software npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops There's WAY more but that's a keyboard post, not a phone post npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops So we had littleun's birthday party at the arcade and I kept getting into this convo npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops I know that in America using cash is inconvenient because American money is uniquely miserable and impractical for several reasons all of which are incredibly unnecessary and I've got a thread in progress over literally years about it but just use it anyway for now, there's no wisdom in giving the credit card bastards 2% of Literally All Your Money Forever, that all adds up to Way Too Much Power and they just can't be bloody trusted with it npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Folks use cash for in-person transactions I'm begging you just fucking use cash npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Not a repair tip but it's HOT so psst, hey, next time you're cooking on the hob, run a pot of cold water from the tap and have it nearby npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops I was in the local arcade's Star Trek Voyager environmental cab today. It's kind of a mess right now but we're planning on making it nice. Question for the greymuzzle nerds, what 2002-era flavour of Linux is this? npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @nprofile…gk57 the Welsh 20mph default speed limit has been great so far in reducing road deaths and injuries, although covid wasn't named specifically npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Watching Murderbot, going "Huh, that's a nice toolbox... wait," npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Everyone who buys a borescope, endoscope, whatever, they wanna do some things with it before they do the job that they actually bought it for, but those things gotta happen in a certain order, see npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Fedi, years ago I bought a cheapo wifi borescope that used my phone as a camera. To make it do the do, you had to download a VERY SKETCHY APP and then connect your phone's wifi to an access point that the borescope itself was emitting. That app is now Gone, but surely, Surely there's some generic Show Video From A WiFi Camera app that isn't spyware? npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops I'm a very nuts-and-bolts kinda guy and this morning I'm struck VIVIDLY by just how weird that is npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @nprofile…r5de you talk about enforcing existing laws at the end and I gotta say, I never thought I'd miss speed cameras until I moved to somewhere that didn't have them npub1vq6d8tnf4c3m43geutu7ckf46g4mhqd0rpjeh3x3tcznms3t89lq9kqa2t Dan Fixes Coin-Ops You don't have to repress the must-obtain-shinies crow in you. We LIKE accumulating stuff, obtaining nice things, it's in our nature. But you can vary the crow's diet. 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The people cry out "Won't someone save us" and it whispers "nodes"
