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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Absolutely! I’ve made adaptors and replacement bits for my and my brothers 90’s cars. The kind of little plastic bits and clips that aren’t nearly crucial enough for anyone to make anymore. That and custom desk/cabinet organizers are the kind of thing that you can only reasonably accomplish with a 3D printer.

    There are certainly other ways that you can just save money, but I’ve found the most satisfying thing is when you find a niche like this that simply could not be done without a printer. I don’t even have anthing crazy expensive, I did most of my printing on an Anet A8 and only recently “splurged” by getting a prusa mini.








  • I’m also very new to lemmy so forgive me if I’m a bit mistaken here, but I saw a decent analogy on the dbzero instance. An Instance is like a street and the communities are like businesses in that street. You can go to multiple streets (instances like lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, etc) and find a macdonalds (/c/technology) on each one. You can walk into each and expect to find the same-ish fries (content) but the people will be different, and if you talk to someone at macdonalds on 1st ([email protected]) you won’t hear a response from someon at the macdonalds on 2nd ([email protected]).

    EDIT: But of course importantly, those streets are adjacent to eachother (federated) so you (your account) can walk freely between them even though you live on 1st street (lemmy.world)

    That’s how I’m trying to make sense of it anyway