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I find designing and printing functional parts like a very satisfying crossword puzzle.

Made these for my brother’s sailing kayak.

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@davidgerard 3d printers, self-hosting, running a Linux desktop and film photography are for people who have too much free time on their hands and love to tinker.

I'm guilty of some of those

@davidgerard brutal but true

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and we thought 2d printers were bad... i mean they are... but lol

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I know you're joking but about a third of all Toronto Public Library branches have a 3D printer that people can use for a fee that they can pay by cash or payment card. (What, our property taxes don't pay for it?)

Even if they charge $20 CAD (the same as $20 AUS) to 3D print a thing you found on the internet on a library PC or on your own PC and you brought the file to the library on a USB thumb drive, that's probably the better way in the long run? As long as you don't 3D print things several times per week. (Who does that?)

I'm pretty sure, for about the same fee per complexity of what you're 3D printing, you can also do that at the University of Toronto's School of Engineering, even if you aren't a student or faculty. Because if random people walking in still pay the fee, it doesn't matter to U of T.

Mind you, if you don't live in a city of 5 million people, you may not have those options locally.