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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 07:19:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I finally figured out what's wrong with my dryer!
   There's no drum to put the clothes in. This is a rookie mistake, Samsung.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 07:29:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It's fun, I looked up the possible issues this dryer has: there's five wheels that can break, one belt, and four sensors.
     I haven't gotten to the sensors yet but all five wheels are bad and the belt is gone

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 08:03:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • 📡 Daan Berg

     @db when you're as broke as I am? It definitely makes sense to keep trying

   • 📡 Daan Berg (db@bla.daanberg.net)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 08:03:13 JST 📡 Daan Berg

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     @foone At this point, does it make a lot of sense to save it?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 09:23:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Supposedly there's a bolt in here somewhere

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 09:29:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm not an expert but I don't think this wheel is in functioning condition.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 09:31:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Honestly the hardest part of repairing my dryer is that it's got a computer in it, and I gotta resist trying to run Doom on it

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 01:59:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I promised my roommates I wouldn't run Doom on it, but here's an idea:
     The dryer has a moisture sensor, right? So it can tell how long it takes to dry a given set of clothes...

     What if I made this into a keyboard?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:05:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So like, doing a load that takes 10 minutes to dry then a load that takes 30 minutes to dry: that's an A

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:05:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I just need to bin the different possible drying times and use them as input for a function that converts it to letters

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:10:19 JST vxo

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     @foone wheel'nt

   • ᴚ uɐᗡ (dannotdaniel@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:18:01 JST ᴚ uɐᗡ

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     @foone I applaud your commitment but I'm worried about latency, mostly

     also where you you plug in the monitor it sounds uncomfortable

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:18:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ᴚ uɐᗡ

     @dannotdaniel latency isn't a problem. I've already built a keyboard that took 14 hours to type "hello world"

   • Matt (mattsiegel@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:19:50 JST Matt

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     @foone world's moistest keyboard! 👅

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:19:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Matt

     @mattsiegel oh don't worry, the other keyboard I've been working on is SIGNIFICANTLY moister.

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:24:53 JST vxo

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     @foone That or count the number of heater cycles at the end of the drying cycle, and open the door to enter the desired letter.

     If you graph the power consumption of a dryer you'll find this really weird PWM function; it starts out 100% duty cycle and starts to iterate downwards until it's done

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:27:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Anyway back to slightly serious things: a few people asked how old this thing was but I didn't know at the time.
     The answer is apparently 8 years old.

   • Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 04:52:51 JST Glyph

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     @foone feels like this might be a little too high latency for an input device for DOOM

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 04:52:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Glyph

     @glyph possibly

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 07:47:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my spouse and I usually sleep while listening to letsplays, but somehow the playlist got messed up this morning and I got woken up early by it playing a video on how to repair dryers.
     I was tossing and turning and they were like CAREFULLY REMOVE THE BELT FROM THE TENSONING WHEEL and I was like THIS IS THE WORST NIGHTMARE, I AM FIXING DRYERS IN MY DREAMS!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 07:49:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's still not fixed: it turns out I had to replace the dryer felt seal too, as it had partially come off.
     That took a day to get here, and then the glue takes 24 hours to cure.
     but maybe tonight, I'll finally finish the job?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 08:05:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

     @ifixcoinops I looked at the label?

   • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 08:05:42 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     @foone damn, what's your secret

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:16:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

     @ifixcoinops oh, that!

     well, every single part was broken, if that explains it

   • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:16:30 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     @foone I meant getting a Samsung to last that long ;)

   • Farbs (farbs@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:37:55 JST Farbs

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     • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

     @ifixcoinops @foone How to make a washing machine last: Call this guy.

     His name is Warren, and he's a dead set legend.

     (Every little box is a whitegoods appliance, and last time I checked they were stacked two high)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:37:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
     • Farbs

     @Farbs @ifixcoinops I love that there's always a guy. for any X, there's an X guy

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 06:32:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm not an expert, but wheels are supposed to be round, right?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 06:58:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It's all back together and currently supposedly drying some towels. Hopefully it's working, I won't know until they come out

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:04:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The final tally, btw:

     This dryer has the following items that are the main failure points that will need to be replaced if any of them break:
     4 barrel wheels
     1 tensioning wheel
     1 belt
     4 sensors
     2 felt drum belts.

     Of those, how many were broken?
     Well, it's easier to list which weren't:
     1 felt drum belt
     0-4 sensors (replaced anyway as they be bad)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:05:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So if one more felt belt had died, this dryer would have had basically every major breakable part replaced. This isn't even the same dryer anymore, really.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:06:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It is the dryer of theseus!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:28:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Kevin Boyd

     @kboyd good question! If I hacked in it more, maybe. But if I make this repair project take any longer just for Foone reasons, I risk my roommates murdering me

   • Kevin Boyd (kboyd@phpc.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:28:41 JST Kevin Boyd

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     @foone is it one of those ones that plays a cute song when a load is finished?

     If so, would it be within the parameters of your arrangement to make it play the DOOM theme?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:33:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Bee O'Problem :godot:

     @beeoproblem very much, because it wasn't just this wheel that was bad, It was all of them!

   • Bee O'Problem :godot: (beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:34:00 JST Bee O'Problem :godot:

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     @foone I'm left wondering just how much of a racket the dryer was making before it gave up the ghost.

     That wheel's been jammed solid for a while

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:45:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Bee O'Problem :godot:
     • FrostyFoxTeals!

     @FrostyFoxTeals @beeoproblem I did have a bunch of NT boxes nearby when I was fixing it. Maybe some of the Windows NT got into the dryer?

   • FrostyFoxTeals! (frostyfoxteals@grimgreenfo.rest)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:45:34 JST FrostyFoxTeals!

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     • Bee O'Problem :godot:

     @foone@digipres.club @beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place Lint'nt

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 11:22:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and it works! better than before it "broke", because it was probably at least partially broken before we even moved into this house

   • Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 13:46:20 JST Glyph

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     @foone 8 years old?!! Is it in an industrial laundry facility in continuous 24/7 use? Are your clothes made exclusively of tungsten ring mail? What HAPPENED to this thing?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 13:46:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Glyph

     @glyph well it's 8 years old and we've been in this house for 3 years. So apparently the first 5 years were filled with the previous renters fucking it up