I think my biggest suggestion might be to try to avoid the huge industry of companies selling “makerspace” stuff to libraries, i.e. GlowForge, etc. All of it is wildly overpriced and underpowered, at the supposed tradeoff of having a lot of support. It’s a bad trade, the support isn’t worth it.

Try to build your own open source equipment, like Voron for 3d printing, OpenFlexure for microscopes, all the Precious Plastics designs for plastic scrap processing, etc. Building these from scratch is ultimately cheaper. Also, it means you’ll know how to fix anything that could possibly go wrong, since you know it inside and out

Don’t worry about not having the necessary skills/experience. It’s all very learnable by anyone, and also there are definitely members of your community with those skills willing to help out. On that note, you really want the community running this thing more than the library admin. They know what they want/need.

Pay attention to the environmental and health consequences of this stuff EARLY ON, before you invest in something terrible. Use easily compostable materials like PHA and hempwood, or post-consumer recycled stuff like PETg from used soda bottles. Get into making/recycling your own materials if/when you can.

That’s what i can think of for now, hopefully that’s at all helpful.

I work in a makerspace, that’s in a public library.

I’m like a 3-ish, and I do. I equally enjoy adult books though, if that helps or complicates whatever you’re trying to suss out.

I use Reflow Filaments’s PA-CF from recycled fishing nets all the time, it’s WONDERFUL stuff. Might be using the same source?

I got the game as soon as I saw this post, and have been playing it off and on for the last few days. The UI isn’t just bad, it’s like kinda pretty broken! At least on my GrapheneOS/Pixel 7 Pro, anyway. The game is also really really confusing?

…All that said, I actually really like this idea, and I’ll keep playing in hopes the rest improves over time. Also in hopes that anyone else in my area joins in lol, it’s pretty quiet here.

I don’t have a lot of mod experience, but I am bi and frequently online. If this is a “the more the merrier” type situation, then I’d be happy to pitch in as well.

I’m pretty perpetually broke, all my family and friends eat meat, and I live in good ol’ purple state Pennsylvania (not Philly or Pittsburgh).

In my personal experience, being at the very least vegetarian IS easy, even in my far-from-ideal conditions. I want to take people at their word when they say it would be hard for them, but it’s kind of incomprehensible to me. I even still eat at restaurants! Honestly I don’t even really cook that much, 'cause I’m lazy and don’t have a lot of free time. When eating out, you just try to do your due diligence to avoid getting any hidden meat, and if you wind up with some anyway, well at least you tried. I will admit it’s somewhat harder when I’m visiting rural Alabama, but not even by that much really. More on the level of minor inconvenience than anything. It’s not even more expensive, meat costs a fortune compared to like… beans.

I don’t have much to say about it other than that it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in years. I cried for hours.

Wow, people are actually saying these things? I haven’t really seen anything here like what they’re accusing. Probably people who wandered in from /All I guess?

EDIT: Oop, sorry! Meant to reply to the main post… I could delete and repost but deletes are still a little wonky on Lemmy I think, right?

Makes Your Head A-Splode if you think about it too much.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one! 😅