Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>Every now and then when I buy boards to be repaired, people throw in a total loss board or two. These are good for extracting parts that I might not have at hand or just to have a good laugh before pressing F for the poor, manhandled board.</p><p>I previously posted a Sega/Stern WhiteStar platform driver board that had battery acid all over it. That is odd, because the board has no batteries, but there are batteries on the CPU board that's directly above it.</p><p>Now I got to the CPU board that was probably the cause of that acid bath. And it's glorious! Some poor sap has been jumpering this thing, without neutralising the problem and it has some extreme corrosion in the traces. This one might end up framed in my office, next to the one that had a burned hole because of using an iron nail as a fuse.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a></p>
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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>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?</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arcade</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/retrotech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrotech</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>We had a severe thunderstorm today. Fortunately at the arcade the only casualty was this smart power socket. <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/thunder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thunder</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a></p>
Ellie<p>Grumble grumble upgrading Ubuntu-LTS grumble Postgres server grumble.</p><p>Even in a toy situation this never works.</p><p>I'm just going to deploy a new VM and restore the pg_dump backup onto it, like I should have originally.</p><p><a href="https://ellieayla.net/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a> <a href="https://ellieayla.net/tags/database" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>database</span></a></p>
Caroline Bell :QueerCat_Trans:<p>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.</p><p>How do I get a fucking job in this world?</p><p>I hate everything.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TechGore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechGore</span></a></p>
Vervain<p>Working on a site today racking up network gear. There's electricians here doing the structured cabling. This is how they've terminated most of the jacks 😭 I genuinely thought people were past this. <br><a href="https://mastodon.vervainglobal.com/tags/terrible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrible</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vervainglobal.com/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.vervainglobal.com/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pinball</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinrepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pinrepair</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a></p>
Ю ⁂<p>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. </p><p><a href="https://nahe.social/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a> <a href="https://nahe.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>This pillow is SPICY!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/spicypillow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spicypillow</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>Finally pulled the dead coil from one of Mars Trek's score reel units. This one qualifies as "well done". </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/pinrepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pinrepair</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>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. <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a></p>
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi<p>Today's modern art installation is presented by: Mr Gpu Failure. <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fail</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>nice to see <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>NanoRaptor</span></a></span> back <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/shitposting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shitposting</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TechGore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechGore</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MemeTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MemeTech</span></a>...</p>
roughiain<p>The one thing that always gets on my nerves with <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Telerik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telerik</span></a> is they have a CMS product yet there forum is littered with broken 404 links... <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TechGore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechGore</span></a></p>
KillrBunn3 (LocalAreaKnitwork)<p>When you need to slam out 40 more lines 5 minutes before coverage check</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/programmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmer</span></a></p>
N. T. Crotser 🔜 VCFMW<p>/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. <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/techgore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techgore</span></a></p>
C-rich<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@stux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stux</span></a></span><br>Content warning: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TechGore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechGore</span></a></p>
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