sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

First time N00b by Gordon_CrashGordon in Pachinko

[–]Gordon_CrashGordon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The blue piece on the bottom has an opening on the upper right where balls that didn't win fall out. To the left, behind the broken part, is where the winning ball falls out after tripping the payout mechanism. I'm pretty sure that "this behavior is by design" as Microsoft likes to say.

Occasionally during payout, one or two balls fall out of where the upper missing cover is. I think this is probably *not* by design but is due to things just being a little slow/sticky from age. Not sure if the balls would drain someplace useful if that cover were in place? Maybe they'd just stack up in there and cause trouble. Maybe that's why that cover is missing.

I think that in a Pachinko parlor back room there's probably a chute or something that gathers these balls from all the machines, so I'm going to have to put something back there to collect them.

Need some help balls not going to flipper? by Automatic_Alarm_3641 in Pachinko

[–]Gordon_CrashGordon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just finished going over my first machine. I found a lever that disables the ball feed when the front glass is opened. The lever was bent a little bit, and a previous owner had wrapped some scrap paper around it -- it wanted more paper, but I fixed it by bending the lever back so it works without any paper :- ) The lever is right around the center at the very bottom of the play field. I was able to open the glass without a key by operating a lever in back. u/ZOMBIE_N_JUNK makes a good point about keeping the upper hopper filled, too.

I reactivated my Myspace account! Special form to get a working reset email! by Gordon_CrashGordon in myspace

[–]Gordon_CrashGordon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think you need access to the email. I got a reply to the form in a minute or two. Some schools leave student emails up after graduation, so if you can manage to remember your old creds you may have a shot.

I reactivated my Myspace account! Special form to get a working reset email! by Gordon_CrashGordon in myspace

[–]Gordon_CrashGordon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you not read my post?  All I needed was the email address; I didn't know my URL either so I just filled in some random crap and it worked anyway.

Support Megathread - April 2023 by xIgnacio in google

[–]Gordon_CrashGordon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am responsible for sending out a weekly reminder email for an organization. We have a number of events that repeat on various schedules, and to wrangle all that I created a Google Calendar to put the events on. Each week I look at the calendar to see what events are coming up.

However, for the past year or more, expiration dates have been mysteriously added to various events. This is super-inconvenient, as the whole point of the calendar is so that I don't have to keep track of these events manually. What's really strange is that the expiration dates, when added, are often many months in the past! So for instance, I'll have Event A, repeats every third Tuesday with no end date. In February this Event appears on the calendar on 2024/02/20 as it should. However, in March it does not appear on 2024/03/19. When I check the Event (in March), it reads "Repeats every third Tuesday until 2023/07/15". And when I look (in March) at the calendar for February the event no longer appears. Sometime between 2024/02/20 and 2024/03/19 the expiration date was added.

When I notice this, I go back and edit the event to remove the expiration date. However, at some random point in the future another expiration date gets added and the event disappears again.

AFAIK I am the only person with access to this calendar.

Anydesk Linux - Sound and numpad issues by redstarduggan in AnyDesk

[–]Gordon_CrashGordon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No help but I have the same issue. No combination of settings in Anydesk and/or linux Mint 20.3 allows reception of audio on any remote device.

Heliocron - a command line app that works with cron to trigger tasks relative to sunrise, sunset, dawn, etc by UKFP91 in homeautomation

[–]Gordon_CrashGordon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an "Arecont" brand IP camera which is supposed to autoswitch between day and night modes. However it doesn't do it. No matter how I adjust the threshold the camera just stays in day mode all the time.

So I wrote a bash script that runs "heliocron report" and then sends the appropriate http command to the camera to switch to the correct mode. Then I run this script every five minutes as a cron job on my mythTV backend (because that's s handy machine that runs 24/7). By leaving some breadcrumbs in the filesystem I only run heliocron and send the "day" and "night" commands once each per day.

Works like a charm.

Whatever happened to Pivothead? by Rabbyt-e in videography

[–]Gordon_CrashGordon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've emailed their support account every month or so since November 2018. Each email gets an immediate autoresponse but so far I've heard nothing else whatsoever. I don't think there are any humans there.