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1. opfez@merveilles.town's status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 12:44:13 UTC opfez

   What's your favourite offline resource for knowledge or learning how to do things?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 12:44:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @noa @opfez Is there really any competition? I struggle to come up with another answer except taking a trade course, which usually costs ten times as much and is a tenth as valuable.
   • noa (noa@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 12:44:12 UTC noa

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     @opfez books :)

   • opfez@merveilles.town's status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:02:13 UTC opfez

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     @neauoire Seems @noa beat you to the chase :)

   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:02:13 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     @opfez @noa Well, you caught me right before I changed my answer. I was considering this for a minute, and I think my personal favourite way is asking people who know directly.

     I think I prefer asking someone directly to do something and to show me, than going through a book. I love tackling specific issues, and books often instead give me, a general overview of solutions. I'd say mentors is my favourite resource.

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   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:02:14 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     @opfez books

   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:02:22 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     @opfez we're lucky to be among boaters, they're the ultimate diyers.

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   • opfez@merveilles.town's status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:02:23 UTC opfez

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     @neauoire Ah, I see what you're getting at. Knowing someone personally is definitely the best way for myself to learn as well (just wish there were people around me that knew things I was interested in learning '^^).

   • noa (noa@merveilles.town)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:02:34 UTC noa

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     @neauoire @opfez i like this, and i agree. and i find it upsetting when people use "lmgtfy" or say "google it" or whatever if i ask them something they could easily answer because i dont want to go through a search engine when i have the wonderful resource right here!

     i used to be like that, now i love to share with people who want my help

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   • Csepp 🩸 (csepp@merveilles.town)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:02:47 UTC Csepp 🩸

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     @opfez So I haven't had many chances of actually *using* knowledge from it, but Ezermester Magazin is amazing. It started in Hungary back in the 50s or 60s and has some great detailed tutorials for DIY things. I think they're still going. We have a few dozen physical copies at home but also their whole archive is freely available online.
     "Ezermester" literally means "thousand master", or "master of a thousand trades", but the less literal translation would be "handyman".

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:04:14 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @opfez @csepp What is your favorite offline resource for learning languages?
     
     Around and around we go
     And the jaks go to and fro 😅
   • opfez@merveilles.town's status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:04:15 UTC opfez

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     @csepp Damn, now I wish I knew Hungarian :)

   • valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:04:24 UTC valhalla

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     @opfez offline dumps of websites :D
     
     books are useful, but before the internet was as easily available as today I've wasted a lot of money on books that were supposed to teach some craft, but were much less useful than what I later found on random websites.
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   • Dr. Canageek (canageek@cybre.space)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:05:00 UTC Dr. Canageek

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     @opfez University libraries. I've sent in requests for random documents and I'll get a scan made in Germany emailed to me. Book I feel like reading for fun? Shows up a week later if it is in any library in North America.

     ALL FREE

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   • noa (noa@merveilles.town)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:05:25 UTC noa

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     @bx @opfez my library had a physical copy of html4 spec which is what i used to learn html, and it was great

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   • bx (bx@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:05:28 UTC bx

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     @opfez it feels kinda rarer for me to see one now, but good user manuals + trial and error is probs my favorite, just bc of gur number of time i've enjoyed reading a manual for something i had no real idea on how to use and coming away feeling pretty confident and having allot of fun along gur way

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:06:02 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @noa The one person on the planet who learned HTML from the spec. 🤣
     
     @opfez @bx
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2022 13:07:30 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @noa To be clear, I am not mocking you, I am in awe of your grit and laughing in joy at the unorthodoxy.
     
     @opfez @bx
   • noa (noa@merveilles.town)'s status on Friday, 22-Apr-2022 06:13:02 UTC noa

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     @clacke i didn't take it as such! actually, html 5 existed when i did this, and i had gone through the one book on html5 at the library but it was very surface level so i "progressed" to the spec. which is actually not bad :)

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 22-Apr-2022 06:13:21 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @noa Going to HTML 4 for the spec was probably the right call.