So you replace a fuse with an iron nail, which causes a transistor to run so hot it burns a hole in the PCB. What do you do? Apparently some fine repair tech came to this problem and the apparent solution was to jumper over the now totally burned traces and then add wires and hang the now missing transistor from those. Because why not?
This is a WhiteStar pinball platform driver board I got for spares long ago, but I think it's glorious in all of its tech goreness.
Grumble grumble upgrading Ubuntu-LTS grumble Postgres server grumble.
Even in a toy situation this never works.
I'm just going to deploy a new VM and restore the pg_dump backup onto it, like I should have originally.
Can't reset my password. It says I don't meet the requirements when all of the boxes were checked. Then I go back to the sign in page and see this.
How do I get a fucking job in this world?
I hate everything.
Going through old pics I came across this. This was a driver board I parted out, it was in a Striker Xtreme pin that arrived from Italy. Its high power circuitry was fused by several iron nails, thus when a transistor shorted, the PCB traces and the transistor remains acted as a fuse. The huge hole in the PCB is where the transistor used to be.
And much to my horror someone had for the lack of better word, fixed it by jumpering over the completely burnt out traces and the missing transistor was just hanging there with added wires.
I've seen horrible things, but this was one of the memorable ones. I rarely go this much "...the fuck?" when inspecting stuff for the first time.
I love how one of my USB hubs predictably emits an electromagnetic burst, every time my file browser spins up a connected hard drive. The result: Mm bluetooth mouse stops working for 3 seconds, AirDrop fails, Bluetooth headphones crackle slightly, tablet and computer lose their peer-to-peer wifi connection.
This pillow is SPICY!
Finally pulled the dead coil from one of Mars Trek's score reel units. This one qualifies as "well done".
Oldie but goodie. I was looking at Robocop's power board and was wondering if my eyes were playing a trick on me or if I saw small sparks at random. So I point my phone at it and boom goes the transistor. Some chunks were found over meter away. #electronics #techgore
nice to see @NanoRaptor back #shitposting #TechGore and #MemeTech...
When you need to slam out 40 more lines 5 minutes before coverage check
/My/ personal soldering iron that I use at home and never take to work vs. the one I'm forced to use at work that I don't get the supplies to properly care for it no matter how many times I put requests in. #techgore
I genuinely thought people were past this. 
VCFMW 