What's something that's free that everyone should know about?
What's something that's free that everyone should know about?
I'll start by plugging Harvard's free courses catalog as well as Udemy
Edit: Gonna add 2 more I remembered-
Blender - I wish I had more time to learn it, but I did start the infamous "Donut Tutorial" once!
Watch Cartoons Online - Lots of good older stuff!
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Libraries. Most even rent video games, power tools, audio/video hardware, baking utensils...SO MUCH STUFF. All free.
On a whim I googled my city's library and "tools" and I found a non-profit society that specializes in lending of hand and power tools! This is incredible and I wouldn't have known about it without this prompt: thank you!
My local library loans dongles! Now if I can just manage to check one out without snickering ...
Can you share the name of this non profit society, is it a part of your local public library or it's own independent thing?.
I need a spanner for like single hex nut and I don't want to buy one for it to collect dust in my drawer lol
Yeah mine was called the [City Name] Tool Library, and it was a non-profit that was independent of our local library. I imagine that they receive donated tools from contractors and companies around the city.
As an example, I googled a random city name (Calgary) and found one for them as well: https://calgarytoollibrary.org/
There are likely tons of similar organizations throughout Canada (and probably your country as well!)
Thanks I was able to find one in Chicago called The Chicago Tool Library
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Our library loans out state parks passes for a month so you can go to parks for free. It also loans out hiking gear, provides immigration resources, and oddly, a ukulele.
This is amazing, I had no idea.
Ours lends them out for all the city museums! And my old local library had a seed library, the deal is that you saved seed from whatever you grew and gave some back.
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I once rented a whole reflector telescope.
That is...fucking crazy awesome.
Technically not free, but because so many people think it is it's a great poster child for proper use of tax dollars and socialist programs. Libraries rock.
Nope. 15 Euro a year (Freiburg, Germany), which doesn't automatically renew and it's a bloody pain.
Yeah, Germany is quite backwards in this aspect.
Even if you don't go to the actual library the ebook apps are great.