So my local library's makerspace offered a free event where they brought in a bunch of old tower computers, printers, game consoles, etc., - laid out a bunch of iFixit toolkits - and let everyone (kids and adults alike) take everything apart!!!
One kid was hesitant because they didn't want to break anything and the library staff were like, none of it works. We're recycling and throwing everything out afterwards! Go hog wild, you won't get in trouble! You're meant to break it and take it apart!
The kid was absolutely enthusiastic and went to town!
I got to be a kid again and go into detail about all the computer parts and what each of the hardware did. It was awesome watching my children and other kids and adults interact, share tools, show off what they found.
I spoke with the organizer afterwards and asked if this was a regular thing and he said that he didn't have enough old equipment to make it regular. I laughed and said all of my friends have CLOSETS FULL OF THIS STUFF and the idea of giving it to a bunch of kids and adults to play with would bring joy
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So my local library's makerspace offered a free event where they brought in a bunch of old tower computers, printers, game consoles, etc., - laid out a bunch of iFixit toolkits - and let everyone (kids and adults alike) take everything apart!!!
One kid was hesitant because they didn't want to break anything and the library staff were like, none of it works. We're recycling and throwing everything out afterwards! Go hog wild, you won't get in trouble! You're meant to break it and take it apart!
The kid was absolutely enthusiastic and went to town!
I got to be a kid again and go into detail about all the computer parts and what each of the hardware did. It was awesome watching my children and other kids and adults interact, share tools, show off what they found.
I spoke with the organizer afterwards and asked if this was a regular thing and he said that he didn't have enough old equipment to make it regular. I laughed and said all of my friends have CLOSETS FULL OF THIS STUFF and the idea of giving it to a bunch of kids and adults to play with would bring joy and meaning to their life, lol!
I gave him the time to meet up with @fxbghackers and told him to make a community announcement about needing old electronics for donation to take apart and he'd get truck loads.
Just another way community helps each other out. This is post scarcity education.
The programme Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) is focused on bringing about changes in legislation and practice across Europe that will strengthen the right of all to knowledge.
BookWyrm è una piattaforma di social reading aperta e federata ed è l'alternativa del Fediverso a GoodReads di Amazon. Maggiori informazioni su BookWyrm sono disponibili all'indirizzo https://joinbookwyrm.com/it e un elenco di server a cui è possibile collegarsi all'indirizzo https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances. È possibile seguire l'account del progetto all'indirizzo @BookWyrm, e gli account di BookWyrm possono essere seguiti da Mastodon ecc. È possibile importare i dati dei libri in BookWyrm da GoodRea
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Che cos'è Bookwyrm e come importare dati da altri servizi
BookWyrm è una piattaforma di social reading aperta e federata ed è l'alternativa del Fediverso a GoodReads di Amazon. Maggiori informazioni su BookWyrm sono disponibili all'indirizzo https://joinbookwyrm.com/it e un elenco di server a cui è possibile collegarsi all'indirizzo https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances. È possibile seguire l'account del progetto all'indirizzo @BookWyrm, e gli account di BookWyrm possono essere seguiti da Mastodon ecc. È possibile importare i dati dei libri in BookWyrm da GoodReads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary e Calibre. Per importare i dati, prima esportateli dall'altro servizio come file CSV, poi accedete al vostro account BookWyrm, andate su Impostazioni > Importa, selezionate il tipo di dati e poi cercate il file CSV che avete esportato dall'altro servizio. Selezionate l'impostazione corretta della privacy, quindi fate clic su "Importa".
