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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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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 […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ retro.social/@ifixcoinops, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

When your dad's had a spare couple of hours recently and you're bimbling along in the car and he theatrically wipes his brow and goes "Hmm, it's hot in here, think I'll wind the window down" and then he winds the window down ALL THE WAY and you sit there like 😮 and he looks over to you all 😉 and […]

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[AI, grim] Aw jeez redlib.catsarch.com/r/antiai/commen… Like IDK if it's one of those where this guy's joking and it's impossible to tell joking from sincerity anymore or if he's 100% serious but yikes we've gotta pop this bubble […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Have I mentioned yet that this is cool as hell? It's cool as hell. By all means get into photovoltaics for environmental reasons or financial reasons or preparedness reasons or futureproofing reasons or flexibility reasons but a lot of folk get into it just as a hobby because it's legitimately […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

AUTUMN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION It's time to clean your gutters and blokes with ladders round here have been asking DAFT MONEY the past couple of years, like double or triple what they were asking pre-covid, and my roof is Extra Scary so earlier this year I got one of those […]

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✨Let me heraldify your character!✨ 🌟B/W version base price 50€ 🌟Coloured version base price 100€ Any species is welcome! Other commission types (www.corruptedfox.com/?cat=43) and my TOS (www.corruptedfox.com/?page_id=133)

A side view draw of a feline with bat like wings. Drawn with pencil.

A side view drawing of a feline with bat wings. It looks like a heraldic creature. The background is a photo of a wall.

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Echoing my last boost, go check out www.backerkit.com/c/projects/nessun…, it's Rusalka by fedi's own @nickwedig. I've played it with Nick and some other mates and it slaps. It's a collaborative storytelling game. You're the vengeful […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

[Sam Altman rape case update, Very Very grim] Annie's released some of her deposition video on youtube m.youtube.com/watch?v=akjrfwYPvy8 Just like with the original case story, this was front page for a couple of hours, and if you weren't online or watching the news during those couple […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Getting in a fight with the gas company, wooooooo

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

[maths about jellybeans] @ifixcoinops assuming an infinite supply of jellybeans and uniform probability of any given flavor, the chance of drawing the same combination of m flavors in a single pull is 1/49^m (i.e. 49^m combinations, only one of which is *your* […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Semi-log plot of "Probability of jellybean sadness" against "Number of pulls (5p each").

The probability of sadness begins at almost exactly 1.0 and begins to fall somewhere around 10 million pulls before bottoming out around 1 billion pulls. A red horizontal line marks the 10% sadness point.

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I refilled my Regret Machine

Red gumball machine filled with jellybeans

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

irresistible mobile tattoo artists on the Ink-You Bus

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

[The KDE AI thing] Corpos: 🦊 Everybody loves AI, the disagreement is about which company's AI to use Journos: 🐰 AI is very important, but is it good or will it destroy the world and kill everyone? Normal people: 🐹 Everybody fucking unanimously hates this shit and views it rightly as an […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Steam's recommending me a dragon washing game, I'm all "OK I'll check out the store page at least," yup it's a dragon washing game where dragons show up at your dragon washing shop and you wash them, and if you're really good at washing them you can date them and do sex stuff with them 1. This […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I keep koming kback to KDE every few kyears to see if it's kgood or not yet and kright now I'm actually having a pretty oK time with it on my klaptop

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Showed the kiddo Terminator 2 for the first time. Had to get a HDDVD version 'cause all the blu-rays are shit. It was good, covered her eyes during the nuclear war dream bit, she loved it, I was smug about getting The Only Good 1080 Version Of T2, and then just […] [Original post on retro.social]

Screenshot of the blu-ray version of T2, it's called blu-ray because they turn everything blue

Same screenshot (John going wtf at the blood on his hand after poking the terminator) but from the HD-DVD, with the lighting as it should be and looking fairly natural

Screenshot of the DVD version; the image is pretty 480-fuzzy but the light looks natural and the colours are as you'd expect, and also you can see the good 40% of the top and bottom of the image that was cropped out of the high-def versions

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Listening to the radio, presenter of the programme is talking about a guest's "brother, who has a learning disability called Nigel." fucking blink-and-rewind way to phrase that innit

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Dan Fixes His Spouse's Stereo

An amplifier sat between two speakers against a blue wall. The amplifier is naked and all its everything is hanging out

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Some of yall

Title page of a book called The Gay Illiterate

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Mab the black cat is trying to fall asleep with her head on my keyboard, but it's got mechanical switches and they click right in her ear whenever she starts to drift off

Mab's head is on my keyboard, her nose in my trackball

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Kiddo's had an unfortunate level-corruption incident on one of her Minecraft worlds and is pretty beat up about it, and I wanna ensure it doesn't happen again. I could write a shell script to compress her whole .minecraft directory into a tarball, stick the date on the end, move that tarball to […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Was fiddling with the Final Fantasy 7 Remake thread and Remembered that I meant to tell y'all that I resolved the bluetooth controller problem I was having with my RG353V Game Dad, by buying a $30 controller rather than a $15 controller. 8bitdo Ultimate 2C, the one that's thirty bucks and can […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

[In case any of you thought I was classy] I bought a secondhand Litter Robot and it's full of some other cat's shit

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

[Guy uses AI for pinball repair] Just saw a dude post chatgpt output after feeding it a schematic and manual for a Williams EM that won't score 10 points, it spent a thousand words explaining its reasoning before giving him a selection of things to check continuity on in the time it took to […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Giving Kubuntu a go again on the wee lappy and it's still got bizarre obvious problems but it's way better than it was a couple of years ago when I last tried it

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Y'know what would be really great about mastodon If you could do a long thread that other people could read on the website

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Absolute banger of an Addams article courtesy of @SocialGaff buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how…

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

pahr's aht #pittsburgh

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

[Sam Altman rape case update, very very grim] this piece of shit is trying to get his sister to submit to a mental exam during the case www.courtlistener.com/docket/695201… Same playbook as when his AI convinces a teenager to kill himself, pull out the old "It's such […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

[mozilla, twitter] Surprised to see that Mozilla are posting on twitter again given that nobody fucking uses it

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Found a bunch of mold and having an Extremely Bad Day

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

🎉🌞⚡ Balcony solar just got legalized in the UK!!!

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Now that the AC's off for the season, if you were wondering about how my box fan cooling down my attic helped things out, in 2025 the whole-house ac ran for 112 hours (nearly all of which was in June and July, 'cause I sorted out the attic fan situation in the first week of August), and this […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Got a couple new games the last few days, Cult of the Lamb and Backpack Hero, they're both good

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

🦝 Oh sweet the guys who make really good remakes of old pinball games are doing Cirqus Voltaire, that's my first pinball love! 🦝 wait 🦝 these aren't the guys who make good machines

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Working (lazily) on a blog post about how the heat is so different in the UK vs the US while I've still got that post-family-visit contrast fresh in my mind, and different ways to cope that I've figured out through trial and error that maybe we can copy from each other and adapt to our own […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

My headphones work fine and hold plenty of charge but the pleather is flaking off and looks/feels gross, this is the most unsatisfactory way for something to halfail

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The most popular pattern on ravelry right now is simply called The Garment

It’s a hilarious massive floor length circular cape thing

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Big machine rolled by my house and ate the old fucked up potholey road and another big machine rolled by and put down a lovely new smooth road and now the neighbourhood kids are out on bikes and putting bottles in the frame to sound like cars and saying MISTER DAN I FELL OFF AND NOW MY […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Salt lamp leaked all over my desk 😑

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

[CW-boost, transphobia, bullying, Robin Ince and the Infinite Monkey Cage podcast] mastodon.social/@robinince/11710453…

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Robin Ince (@robinince@mastodon.social)

Here is Gaslighting PART TWO - about how the anti trans gaslighting gave them victory (though that didn’t mean the end) #gaslighting #translivesmatter #lgbtq #bbcradio4 #psychology https://www.patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/to-end-part-two-166818254

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Anyone know a Lemmy app that'll let me look at the entirety of another server without having to make an account on that server? Like, I wanna see the front page of slpnk.net in my Lemmy app. Tried Voyager and Jerboa with no luck yet

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Hey my favourite chat app Conversations is free in the google shop for the next couple of days, get it downloaded while it's free and worry about setting it up later. It's an XMPP client, one of these doodads where you can run your own server and they can all talk to each other, just like Fedi […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Talking about custard in a group chat on my Dvorak phone keyboard and typo'd up a POTENT new slur, yikes

screenshot of me writing this post, illustrating that the N and the S are riiiiight next to each other on this keyboard

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

This fucking kettle, man. This fucking kettle, doesn't turn off when the water's boiled. If it were just that then well obviously this is a defective kettle and send it back, but no, what this kettle does is it boils the water, and then continues boiling the […] [Original post on retro.social]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I said in the England thread that Alton Towers goes overboard on themeing the rides, well just before I go to bed, this is the music for a ride that builds atop thirty years of lore about a different rollercoaster about fifty metres away, y'see the Phalanx are collecting the saliva from Nemesis […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

had a wee chat with some folk in England about that weird open source chat thing I use (xmpp/jabber) and they said yeah write a guide for it and let's get on with it, so I figured I'd have a gander through my Newbie Goggles at the current state of things that aren't Conversations wiki.xmpp.org […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Good morning fedi from normal island

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

i wanna find more transmasc beings/trans men to be mutuals with. happy about recommendations~

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Alright so ROBINSONS SQUASH We have this drink in the UK where it's a very very concentrated fruit juice and you put a teeny tiny little bit into a big glass of water and it makes the water fruity and nice, and you can choose how concentrated or dilute you want your drink to be for different […]

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