this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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Celebrating/talking about repairing stuff, the right to repair stuff, and the intersection of tech and solarpunk ideals.
What does it mean to use what we have, including technology, to try to build a better, more environmentally just world?
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Problem: Damn! There are a hundred places to try and find a manual you're looking for!
Idea: Let's create a single place where we collect all the manuals!
Conclusion: There are now a hundred and one places to try and find a manual you're looking for.
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(also not to discourage any such efforts, especially to such an openly accessible place like archive.org)
I suspect all the manual wardens are actually harvesting archive.org then focusing their effort on getting a high search rank. Notice if you expand archive.org’s filters, there is a subject preset for manualzilla and manualzz. So when liberating a manual, it also feeds the baddies. But nothing we can do on that.
I’ll probably change my habits to search archive.org first, before using a web search.