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  • Times have changed

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  • Fair enough - and yeah I'm going based off of what I've heard, not from personal experience, so I could definitely be wrong. But yeah, I'm sure it is largely location dependent as well as a lot of other factors as well.

  • Times have changed

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  • I know it's just a meme, and I don't want to be "that guy" but van life isn't actually as affordable as it's often made out to seem. Lots of hidden costs to take into account like where you can park and etc.

  • An open source repairable printer.

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  • I understand why you're getting downvoted, but at the same time - I completely understand the sentiment. In a perfect world, you're right, we should be able to reuse what we have and our society is utterly obsessed with consumerism. But being realistic and practical - that's not going to happen for many reasons, at least not in our lifetime.

    But I think that creating something that will last, is repairable, and open source is a step in the right direction and is better than the current alternatives. I'm not saying we shouldn't continue to advocate and push for the ideals of what you are saying - but we shouldn't push away progress in the right direction as we fight for those ideals. It doesn't have to be "one or the other" it can be a multipronged approach that advocates for the ideal scenario while accepting small incremental progress as well.

    I'm not saying this specific product is or is not the solution (it might be a terrible product or the people behind the product might have terrible intentions, idk. . . But the idea of products build to last, be repairable, and open for improvement, etc etc is a good step forward in my mind. Ehh, my 2 cents.

  • An open source repairable printer.

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  • I think it might largely depends on your 1. Career/job/ or even hobby requirements 2. Where you live (government agencies requiring paper documents, signatures, etc)

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    UnfinishedProjects @piefed.zip

    An open source repairable printer.

    www.crowdsupply.com /open-tools/open-printer

  • Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate)

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  • Oh, ok - I see what you are saying. To use that community to federate with. Yeah that's a great idea - and I'll definitely keep it in mind once I eventually switch over to nodeBB :)

  • Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate)

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  • Oooh this is a nice sub :) Do you think that a forum community counts as something I made to cross post there?

  • Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate)

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  • Yeah, I totally feel this - and it's one of the major drawbacks that I mentioned in the article. To compromise my sanity (of possibly spending a lot of time, and some money) with not losing all the progress of th community - my plan is to transfer early.

    It's not the perfect solution - I admit, but I feel that if I can just get a small handful (maybe 10-15 people are semi active/committed to the goal of the community) then I'd feel comfortable transitioning because I know we have a decent foundation to grow off from. But mainly I'm using this free hosting platform just to make sure there are actual people who are interested, and it's not dead idea on arrival.

    I will be honest though, the more I've been trying to get this community started - the more I'm tempted to just bite the bullet and go strait to buying a VPS and domain to set up nodeBB. I think if I can just get the feeling that people are actually interested and it's not going to be a waste of my resources, then I might just do that.

    Super valid point though. (I might even be able to find a way to save the data from this forum and preload it into the other forum - but I kind of doubt it since they are two different pieces of software)

  • fediverse @hexbear.net
    UnfinishedProjects @piefed.zip

    Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate)

    unfinishedprojects.flarum.cloud /blog/11-the-plan-moving-forward
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    UnfinishedProjects @piefed.zip

    Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate)

    unfinishedprojects.flarum.cloud /blog/11-the-plan-moving-forward

  • Floating fox

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  • What a great picture!

  • Technology @beehaw.org
    UnfinishedProjects @piefed.zip

    Community Forum - Focusing on Creative Commons & Open Source Projects & Discussion

    unfinishedprojects.flarum.cloud
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    UnfinishedProjects @piefed.zip

    Community Forum - Focusing on Creative Commons & Open Source Projects & Discussion

    unfinishedprojects.flarum.cloud
  • technology @hexbear.net
    UnfinishedProjects @piefed.zip

    Community Forum - Focusing on Creative Commons & Open Source Projects & Discussion

    unfinishedprojects.flarum.cloud