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Sarah | Time for Kindness
@time_for_kindness@kind.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

What kindness have you seen from volunteers?

“At @RepairCafe_Barry we have an Autistic boy who comes in every month with his teddy. One of our volunteers spotted a very similar teddy in a charity shop for £1 and bought it for spare parts as needed.”

What a kind volunteer to be thinking about the repair cafe and that boy specifically while going about their everyday!

#Volunteer#RepairCafe

@repaircafe
Tanguy Fardet ⏚
@tfardet@social.sciences.re  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Olà, le fédi toulousain, j'ai besoin de ton aide !
J'ai un notebook de #Tuxedo sur lequel je voudrais renouveler la pâte thermique du #CPU.
On m'a dit que c'était pas trop compliqué, mais pour la première fois je préférerais quand même voir avec quelqu'un qui a l'habitude...
Est-ce qu'il y a un #réparateur sympa (ou à défaut un #repairCafé ?) que vous me conseilleriez pour faire ça ?

Le boost allonge la durée de vie de mon ordi et réduit donc les déchets électroniques 😉

#Toulouse#réparation #entretien #ordinateur #notebook
Will
@wingsylver@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Just been to a repair café where I volunteer as a fixer, where I had the pleasure of being able to talk to some members of the public while they waited about Microsoft ending their support for Windows 10, and showing them how Linux is capable of everything they do on their PCs on a day-to-day basis, and that they can save their machines from being thrown out.

My local repair cafés will hopefully be running their own installation events, but @Endof10 is coordinating a global campaign if you want to find an installation event near you.

#endof10 #repaircafe #solarpunk
Repair Cafe Barry
@RepairCafe_Barry@toot.wales  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Our golden rule is "if you can fit it through the doors and it's not a microwave, we'll try and fix it!"

We can't make guarantees but between our volunteers we have a wide variety of skills and expertise.

What will you be bringing to our next event on Saturday 5th July between 10am and 1pm?

#RepairCafe#RightToRepair#SolarPunk

Richard, a man with light skin tone and short grey hair, kneeling on the floor working on a lawn mower while a woman with light skin tone and long brown hair tied up in a bun stands watching. Around them are tables at which different people are sitting working on items.
Richard, a man with light skin tone and short grey hair, kneeling on the floor working on a lawn mower while a woman with light skin tone and long brown hair tied up in a bun stands watching. Around them are tables at which different people are sitting working on items.
Richard, a man with light skin tone and short grey hair, kneeling on the floor working on a lawn mower while a woman with light skin tone and long brown hair tied up in a bun stands watching. Around them are tables at which different people are sitting working on items.
Kevin, a man with tanned light skin tone and short black hair, and Gary, a man with light skin tone and short blonde hair, sitting a table. Kevin is working on a red toy musical keyboard while Gary is working on what appears to be part of a vacuum cleaner. On the table is a mug of coffee, various electrical sockets, and a screwdriver.
Kevin, a man with tanned light skin tone and short black hair, and Gary, a man with light skin tone and short blonde hair, sitting a table. Kevin is working on a red toy musical keyboard while Gary is working on what appears to be part of a vacuum cleaner. On the table is a mug of coffee, various electrical sockets, and a screwdriver.
Kevin, a man with tanned light skin tone and short black hair, and Gary, a man with light skin tone and short blonde hair, sitting a table. Kevin is working on a red toy musical keyboard while Gary is working on what appears to be part of a vacuum cleaner. On the table is a mug of coffee, various electrical sockets, and a screwdriver.
Kevin, a man with light skin tone and long grey hair tied back, sat at a table working on the head of a vacuum cleaner. On the table are various screwdriver heads, a silver bowl with screws in it, an electric screwdriver. He is holding a manual screwdriver and using it on the head.
Kevin, a man with light skin tone and long grey hair tied back, sat at a table working on the head of a vacuum cleaner. On the table are various screwdriver heads, a silver bowl with screws in it, an electric screwdriver. He is holding a manual screwdriver and using it on the head.
Kevin, a man with light skin tone and long grey hair tied back, sat at a table working on the head of a vacuum cleaner. On the table are various screwdriver heads, a silver bowl with screws in it, an electric screwdriver. He is holding a manual screwdriver and using it on the head.
Repair Cafe Barry
@RepairCafe_Barry@toot.wales  ·  activity timestamp last month

Not long til our next repair café! We'll be back at Barry Library this Saturday 7th June with our data inputting superhero, @Uselessgeneration in full force & celebrating her 40th birthday!

She's taken a huge weight off Jo's shoulders by ensuring the forms that you so diligently fill in for us are sent off on the day.

We're open 10am until 1pm to repair your broken items and just be somewhere to socialise, so come along!

#RepairCafe#Volunteer
Mx. Luna Corbden
@corbden@defcon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

My son is looking to get into sewing machine repair as a business. There's demand for it up here. But search engines in 2025 are shite.

Does anyone know any good resources? Things like old manuals, online communities, forums, wikis, YouTube channels.

For example, he's got a 1928 Singer that's binding. He seems to have good instincts about what's wrong with it, but he's been unable to find a manual. He's got several others he's tinkering with, and wants understand them and become the go-to person in this area with all the knows.

I've directed him to archive.org but I suspect it might not be organized on this topic and it won't offer much community.

Any resources would be appreciated!

[Tagging him: @bamboy ]

#AskFedi#Solarpunk#RightToRepair #sewing#RepairCafe
Repair Cafe Barry
@RepairCafe_Barry@toot.wales  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Our sewing experts were kept very busy at our May café. Ann and Peter had a queue of people waiting for their skills!

Between them they repaired clothing items, soft toys, shopping trolleys, and much more.

We're at Barry library on the first Saturday of every month to fix your items for free - pop it in your diary and tell your friends!

#Sewing#SolarPunk#RepairCafe

Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard wearing glasses, sitting at a table smiling at the camera. On the table in front of him is a brown koala teddy bear, a plastic tub filled with different coloured threads, a plate of cupcakes, a book with many needles laid on top of it, and a red donations bucket.
Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard wearing glasses, sitting at a table smiling at the camera. On the table in front of him is a brown koala teddy bear, a plastic tub filled with different coloured threads, a plate of cupcakes, a book with many needles laid on top of it, and a red donations bucket.
Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard wearing glasses, sitting at a table smiling at the camera. On the table in front of him is a brown koala teddy bear, a plastic tub filled with different coloured threads, a plate of cupcakes, a book with many needles laid on top of it, and a red donations bucket.
The sewing table at Barry repair cafe. Ann, a woman with light skin tone and brown hair wearing glasses, leans over the table sewing a beach bag. Beside her, Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard, is threading a needle ready to sew up a brown teddy bear which is laying on the table in front of him.
The sewing table at Barry repair cafe. Ann, a woman with light skin tone and brown hair wearing glasses, leans over the table sewing a beach bag. Beside her, Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard, is threading a needle ready to sew up a brown teddy bear which is laying on the table in front of him.
The sewing table at Barry repair cafe. Ann, a woman with light skin tone and brown hair wearing glasses, leans over the table sewing a beach bag. Beside her, Peter, a man with light skin tone and balding grey hair and beard, is threading a needle ready to sew up a brown teddy bear which is laying on the table in front of him.