crappy plastic injection-moulded attachment for our hand blender broke
Today, I am very pleased that our local County Library system offers free 3D printing, because someone has already made a replacement neck and put it on thingiverse.
This is a better use of my membership than reading 200 pages of drivel to ensure a talk was properly cited.
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There's a beauty in using a service I already pay into, instead of buying a replacement appliance and filling up landfill, or buying a 3D printer that I really don't need and wasting valuable shelf space at home. A++.
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@chrisjrn On top of the social and environmental benefits there's also a self-serving one: someone else maintains that 3d printer 💯
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@projectgus @chrisjrn so much this! I bought one some years ago, and it did not take long to realize that just keeping it in usable condition was more effort than anyone ever mentions, and singlehandedly kept me from using the 3d printer for small random jobs. It's just taking up space in the garage now, and I'll gladly pay some online service to print things for me —in better quality and materials than I could probably manage myself— to avoid wasting my own time on test prints and software updates and all the other fiddly shit that isn’t actually printing the thing I want.
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@amethyst @projectgus "pay some rando" is not a thing I'd considered before.
… and now it looks like I really am getting a discount from the library
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