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Re: Repair Café

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Post by chrisseaton »

nyolfen wrote: post #25
chrisseaton wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen ... i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and am now waiting on it to arrive Note that taking someone's rubbish without permission is considered theft in the UK (there is precedent). If you sell it it's even worse because…

oi mate where's ya rubbish licence

It's not about a 'licence' - we don't have licenses for rubbish collection - it's about permission from the person who owns the rubbish.

Re: Repair Café

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Post by justifier »

chrisseaton wrote: post #30
justifier wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ha! depressing though i doubt the people i was living with who would break into abandoned buildings to establish residence are all that too concerned with your rubbish 'theft' precedent the tablet salvage was in the states and unfortunately i'd be unsurprised if there are equally uncharitable precedent here as well .. as an aside, i would be interested in reading your referenced precedent, i agree going through someo…

I think it's this way so that people can't steal things and say 'oh I thought it was rubbish'.

sure, got a link though?

Re: Repair Café

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Post by LaundroMat »

mrzool wrote: post #5

There are several of these repair cafes around town where I live. My old Braun blender from the 70s that I got from my grandma got repaired in one of these. I sent an email with brand, model and photo when I registered, the guy got some spare parts on eBay just in time for the day and I managed to repair the blender under the guy’s guidance. Paid for the spare part (5 bucks) plus left 10 bucks as small donation. My b…

Same here. I live in a small village near Ghent, Belgium and the monthly repair café consistently gets a reasonable number of visitors.

Re: Repair Café

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Post by chrisseaton »

justifier wrote: post #32
chrisseaton wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's this way so that people can't steal things and say 'oh I thought it was rubbish'.

sure, got a link though?

This talks about some of the multiple precedents that have been reinforcing this for centuries.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13037808

Re: Repair Café

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Post by jacquesm »

codezero wrote: post #29
jacquesm wrote: post #23

I have a little hobby: I will fix anything as long as whoever wants it fixed isn't going to push me on a delivery date, is willing to drop it off (or it is easily accessible without moving) and pick it up again when it is done. I only take in a small number of items at the time. It gives me a great excuse to keep tools around. Last two weeks worth of projects: vintage synth, an 'unrepairable' mountain bike, a bed (th…

Do you ever post your before and after projects with maybe some tips? I’d love to see that.

Hm, no, but I could. That's an interesting idea, thank you, I will use that.

Re: Repair Café

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Post by zhrvoj »

stmw wrote: post #6

There needs to be more of these around! Among other things, it helps for people to keep in touch with how things work.

This bad as it can be. While everybody charges for everything, for thin air, repairs should be free...yeah..and repairman should donate their money they didn't earn to the other people.

Re: Repair Café

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Post by justifier »

chrisseaton wrote: post #34
justifier wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sure, got a link though?

This talks about some of the multiple precedents that have been reinforcing this for centuries. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13037808

precedent is a court document

you linked to an article pretrial

the person in the article took food from a bin stead ewaste

i tried to find a followup article or court decision but was unable

i did find a similar article from iceland where people were charged under an 1824 vagrancy act which was ruled unworthy of prosecution(o)

your linked case reads like a power tripping manager to me

this practice was part of the squat culture as well: every few days we would do a 'skip hop'.. skip being the term for a large trash bin.. we'd go to grocery stores who were legally bound to throw away food that expired that day at the end of the day as well as forbidden from giving away 'rotten' food, so the employees would stack the food items carefully in separate trash bags from the 'actual' rubbish and put these bags next to the bins

pageantry of plausible deniability is a hilarious thing

(o) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2014/jan/...

Re: Repair Café

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Post by chrisseaton »

justifier wrote: post #38
chrisseaton wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This talks about some of the multiple precedents that have been reinforcing this for centuries. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13037808

precedent is a court document you linked to an article pretrial the person in the article took food from a bin stead ewaste i tried to find a followup article or court decision but was unable i did find a similar article from iceland where people were charged under an 1824 vagrancy act which was ruled unworthy of prosecution(o) your linked case reads like a power tripping manager to me this practice was part of the s…

Pre-trial? It's from 1877 and listed in an industry reference on legal precedents. And that precedent still stands because, as the article says, they're still prosecuting people for it.

> One precedent-setting example from 1877 was the case of a diseased buried pig. According to legal text Archbold's Pleading, Evidence, and Practice in Criminal Cases, even if someone discards something and does not intend to use it again, they can retain ownership of it.

> this practice was part of the squat culture as well

Not sure this would work as a defence, to be honest.

Re: Repair Café

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Post by agumonkey »

justifier wrote: post #15

i've fantasised about something like this before my neighbors are consistently throwing away perfectly fine electronics where 90% of the problems are a blown electrolytic capacitor there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and…

What I don't get is that the trend is increasing. Every Month i Can find vast amount of things.
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