Oh wow. I had no clue there were so many that inexpensive now. Thank you!

Huh… I watched a basic review on it and that seems somewhat intriguing. It looked faster than expected, decent basic features, and he says parts availability is good. I may have to put this on the wishlist… Thanks for the tip!

I check periodically, but I don’t see anything within an hour of me. It’s a shame, as I’m in the more populated part of my state, between the biggest and third biggest cities and I read about these places and feel I’d really enjoy them.

I have a milk frother for example, that burned out its stupidly non resetting thermal fuse because it got put on the base, something bumped the start button with nothing in and it burnt out. I’d love to have someone show me how to locate that bit and replace it, but I dunno where to go for that.

Same with the 3D printer. I can afford one, but at this stage of life I’d rather someone give me a hands on run through and give me some of their wisdom from experience than me playing around and getting frustrated until I get it right.

Thank you! I’ll have to keep that in mind! It seems like a thing that would be useful to have access to. There are always little things where I think it would be cool if the local library or hardware store had a printer for things that don’t seem like they’d be worth shipping but nice to have like pen refill adapters for instance.

That was my first thought, but it seems easier to run a few thousand more off the assembly line and make the original part than I’d think to have at least one person develop an adequate 3D part for an items that wasn’t originally designed to be 3D printed.

Even for a relatively simple item like the trimmer guard shown, as someone who used those on their whole head for many years, they need to have decent rigidity coming from a number of angles so it cuts evenly, so someone needs to design a decent print, find what types of stock provide the right durability, flex, etc.

So it’s doesn’t sound that free for them or quick, but it’s much cheaper than distribution for a bunch of random parts that may never get used.

I’m curious to see long term effects if this catches on. Will more original parts be made with 3D printing if they need to design prints anyway?

The big downside is even if this were available, I don’t have a printer. I don’t know anyone with one. I don’t know where I could go to (?) rent time on one. So to me at the moment, this is as useful to me as no available replacement part! 😅

I don’t want to have to deal with the mod stuff, exactly like OP said. I’m just here to promote owls, conservation, and wildlife rehab. I do have a great mod that lets me do pretty much anything I want and will do stickies and banner changes and such for me, and I just keep giving good content.

Not OP, but I found this for a quick summary, and this more detailed paper from Privacy International here.

A data mining community bought it in 2022.

It made a lot of users upset and they moved on. I still us it. I paid for it, it did everything I want, and it’s sent a whole 25kb of data so far this year. I haven’t seen any actually evidence they’re doing anything nefarious with it.

There is method to my madness! 🤪

Also just works well when putting my phone down random places or near someone else’s phone. I can always spot it much faster with a louder color case. Then I have the dark one for when a neon color phone would look too out of place or just draw unwanted attention like an event or nice dinner.

It just adds a layer of flexibility that I find worth the price of a cheap case.

Agreed. I wouldn’t call it flush, but it is 99% of the way there. A little bezel around the lens is probably helpful to limit getting a scratch that being totally flush anyway.

I have a few cheapy cases. I have a dark one for when I need to look nicer so the phone doesnt stand out. I’ve got a clear one (white phone) and I’ve got a bright red one as well. The red one is extra grippy and the brightest color and I use that one when I’ll be in the woods or taking a lot of pics so I don’t drop it, and if I do it will stand out. All cases around $10 and have kept my phone looking nice. I’ve also printed out cool backgrounds like a Samauri Jack one that I threw under the clear case on my old phone, but the ink eventually stained the case.

It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn’t necessarily seem opposed to it. I don’t recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on !summit@lemmy.world. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.

Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.

It’s used to it! Whoooooo!!!

They go into more nuance in the comment they linked within the comment I shared which addresses their experience with some of the things you mention, where publishers will change/add things, and that new material changes the public domain status, but others will change minor details and and try to call it a new protected work.

I’ve seen many guitar tab sights get copyright noticed out of existence, but now playing piano and learning about IMSLP, they seem to be very above board and respectful of the law, so it’s interesting to hear of the challenges they face even in trying to comply with established rules.

Things like what IMSLP provide are at least as much educational and historical materials as they are entertainment, and I’m glad they’re trying to legally preserve it all. I’ll have to look more into their difficulties, it was very interesting reading these 2 posts and their content is very much of interest to me.

I see IMSLP has been a regular supporter of the IA. They are somewhat of a Project Gutenburg but for public domain sheet music and recordings, and they are a great source for music students. I imagine they have deep interest in these results. Their comments really highlight some potential difficulties with determination of copyright that can cause digital libraries unnecessary problems.

I haven’t followed the case too much, as I suspected the big money side was going to win somehow, but sheet music publishing has always been contentious between those selling it and those providing it for free. Sheet music was and is targeted as a form of piracy by record companies and publishers. Even Nintendo gets in on the action.

If someone can make a buck off of it, they’ll beat you up for giving it away for free.

We agree that the court case sets a very ugly precedent for libraries like archive.org (and ours). Before you go banning and taking down tens of thousands of items in mad rush, please do seriously consider our comment made shortly before the attack that took you down for two weeks:

https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/21/lending-of-digitized-books/#comment-492068

When a publisher reprints something in 1975 that was originally published in 1885 it does not grant a new copyright on any pre-existing public-domain material. There are countless examples (many thousands) on this site of the type of thing mentioned in the above post. When a new edition of a public domain original is issued, the only thing covered by the copyright claim is the new material added which must be at least somewhat original in nature to qualify. This should be made clear in the copyright registration (though they sometimes fail to do so). It should not be solely for a new typeset (in the US and many countries) but only for new additions such as commentaries, annotations, illustrations, prefaces, afterwords and the like. If someone redacts the newly-added material the 1975 print is fine as its reduced to merely a new typesetting of the 1885 original (sometimes a publisher doesn’t even bother to produce a new typeset but literally reprints the old one) – thus with the identical content as the original.

IMSLP is of course a much smaller site in terms of the sheer number of items in our library. We’re highly specialized after all (music scores, for those who might not be familiar). We have a team dedicated to this kind of thing and we’re always busy at it. We know all about the various games played by publishers. Take a page from our book please. Archive.org has a lot of community goodwill and there are no doubt folks with time to volunteer and do some curating to redact only the kind of newly-added thing mentioned above. Hachette el al really don’t want a public domain. They just want to control everything – despite the fact that they’re clearly benefitting from things in the public domain – just take a look at this short list taken from your own list of “banned books” affected by the decision:

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain (first published 1884-85) “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin (first published 1899) “An American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser (first published 1925) “Candide” by Voltaire (first published in 1759, also in English translation, again in English 1762) “The Decameron” by Giovanni Bocaccio (written ca.1353, published in English by 1620)

All five of the originals are public domain worldwide, even the two translated into English. Yet there they are on the list. Yes there are certainly derivative works which are very much under copyright – like Bernstein and Sondheim’s “West Side Story” – based on “Romeo and Juliet” but obviously recast, transformed and adapted in such a way that it’s a work on its own. That one won’t be showing up at IMSLP for quite some time for obvious reasons.

That being said, publishers have been known to put up “scarecrow notices” on plain old reprints containing nothing at all outside the original. In the US, these are technically illegal. With all the lawfare they’ve conducted over the decades, they’ve got countless folks gaslighted into thinking every claim made is a valid one. As the lyric of a famous song goes: “It ain’t necessarily so.”

Even the smallest owls have to stay fierce!

It was hard to post today, but I told myself that I still wanted to try to give you guys what I could, so I put up some of the best I had in my stash of posts.

I try to keep politics out of it, but as I focus on habitat preservation and animal protections, it’s hard to stay totally out of it.

I do have stuff ready to start Owl of the Year. I was going to do a preliminary round this week, but I’m going to let people deal with their emotions for a couple days, I think.

To anyone feeling nervous by the results, know I care about of all you guys, and most of the people I love are potentially affected as well. Anyone who cares about nature is always welcome to come and enjoy the owls with me.

I’ve been using Kiwi for the last few years, as at the time Firefox didn’t do extensions on mobile. It’s Chromium based, and I’ve had no issues using it anywhere.

I feel you’re in the right area with what to expect from Frieren, but it should still be different enough it gets you in the feels when it needs to.

Spy x Family is a ton of fun and is pretty well paced and has a good balance of serious and humor and emotion. All the MCs get pretty even focus as well, no one character dominates the series. You get some B plot stuff with the secondary characters also, so lots of POV. None of the arcs have lasted too long either. Anya is the star though, as far as I’m concerned as she just has so many great comedy moments and is so loveable in a dorky way and is drawn with the greatest expressions.

For me the cute girls doing cute things are sweet peaceful stories I can relax to, watch them do hobbies (bonus points if they actually teach me stuff about those hobbies), and give me some insight into female situations and how they (may) act when men aren’t around. Asobi Asobase is supposed to be about a games club, but they rarely do any actual games and just chill or harass each other with lots of funny gags thrown in. Days at the Breakwater is about a fishing club. Do It Yourself! was fun, as that was a crafting club, but it started with the MC having her best friend not wanting to be her friend anymore, and we learn through the series about their relationship and what the problem was and how it resolves with some fun crafty stuff (and a very cute woodpecker!) along the way. I can get why there are people that watch them for ulterior resaons, but it seems kinda pointless as there are plenty of shows that provide that much more readily. I was so disappointed Farming Life in Another World went that way! The world was so beautiful, and the variety of female characters were so loveable and interesting (and the giant killer spider that only ate potatoes was so sweet!), but it turned into more about breeding with the natives like OG Captain Kirk than a show about farming that I was really hoping for. All the characters kicked so much ass, but were reduced to implied breeding material.

I don’t think I’ve heard of the Bechdel Test before, and it’s sad that has to be a thing! I’m male, but was primarily raised by both my grandmothers, so I appreciate stronger, more independent and assertive female characters. It’s one thing that I’ve really loved about One Piece. I had expected it to be more shonen-tropey, but there are so many kick ass characters of all kinds. Being female, small, old, or fat don’t have any bearing on how the characters are written. The author has talked about why should any of that influence how cool of a character they can be? It’s nice as a now older and rounder person that is still an anime/manga fan to see people still not being reduced to gag characters. Some of the smartest and strongest characters have been women and old people. It is a shame noticing when they female characters are written as things just to move story lines along or for fanservice alone. I’m not against fanservice at all, but I don’t want things that are just strictly that. I checked out Nagatoro after hearing how bad it was in that regard, but I honestly enjoy it and see it as an innocent coming of age story. They’re being more shy and awkward than they are being sexy. I only watched the first season, and while the POV is from the male MC, much of the focus seems to be the personalities of the female characters, obviously mainly Nagatoro, but from the beginning we see that she mainly just enjoys making the MC feel uncomfortable, and whenever she takes something a bit too far or things get too real, she gets embarrassed and we get a glimpse at the real Nagatoro who seems to be a very polite and caring person. It’d be easy to watch it as a pervy show if that was one’s desire, but I feel they’d be missing on on some great narrative elements by doing so. But I enjoy getting all the characters personalities flesh out in stories. The world just feel so one dimensional if you aren’t fairly exploring all the characters evenly.

Doing the reading yesterday about otome games, it did seem like many people play through to get all the endings. I guess that makes sense, as if you only had one or 2 characters you really liked, it would be too straightforward to play through. The more characters you get invested in, the more compelling it would be. It probably doesn’t help that the male version of dating sims gets catagorized as something for creepy guys to play, or that’s how it seems to me at least. It’s never the character the viewer would want to be in a show for example that is the one playing them. Hearing it described more as a graphic novel makes things make a bit more sense though. It sounds like a choose your adventure book, with the same replay value, and likely higher quality storytelling. From watching My Next Life as a Villainess, I did enjoy the characters’ personalities overall, and I liked their art style. It does feel a bit unusual to me to basically see a reverse harem though, where the male and female characters all had love interest in the female MC. Being unfamiliar with a bunch of the love/romance genres gets me a bit confused as to what is meant to be for a more general audience and what is for more…uhh…specific tastes shall we say.

For a game more revolving around relationships with some consequences, have you played Life is Strange? I only played the first one, but you can definitely be the friendly peacemaker or be rude and blow people off, leading to different consequences. There are only 2 actual endings, but the journey can be pretty different depending on how you play it, especially if you notice finer details in the backgrounds and conversations. It usually goes on sale pretty cheap. Largely female characters too.

I think a Mean Girls type game could be fun. It’s like GTA type games don’t make you a hardcore criminal, I think a bad girl game could be a healthy way to work through some of those pent up feelings people get and the desire to get back at people that where bad to you. Paths to either making eventual peace or viciously dominating the social circles could be in the same game for people that eant either type of resolution. It probably just gets lost in the “girls dont play games” stereotype, which is unfortunate.