zloubida @ zloubida @sh.itjust.works

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Quelle est cette ignominie ?

That's IMO the principal problem with typewriter restoration. But to restore the platen seems possible without exotic tools, if you have time and patience.

There's a tutorial on YouTube, and it looks almost easy when he does it… but I doubt it is that easy in real life. The seasoned collector from the YouTube channel Just My Typewriter had troubles with feed rollers in one of her videos: if she had troubles, I fear to try, but I'm not very competent.

The other option is to send the platen to a professional. But that will cost you quite a lot, I think. I heard that JJ Short was good.

Me, I generally just accept the hardness. The trick you described to use two sheets of paper seems enough.

In a perfect world, these would be decided not server-side, but client-side by choices made by the browser users.

But our world is not perfect.

Enough Lemmy for today.

I never watched an X-men, nor the old Dune, so for me Patrick Stewart is Jean-Luc Picard.

I'm not him, but I agree with you :-)

My point still stands. A general lesson about how to treat other humans is not enough, parents need to teach especially boys how to treat women, because the society will teach otherwise. You don't need to teach that men are humans; unfortunately we have to teach that women are too.

So yes, let's teach our sons how to treat women.

Exactly, and that's why more men than women die at the hands of their partners. (/s, if it's not obvious)

Of course it's unacceptable for women to hurt men, but please, let's not reverse the problem.

Yeah, but we don't educate our children in a cultural vacuum. We have to teach our children to respect everyone, but when we educate boys we have to fight the culture of rape, so we have to be especially attentive to teach boys how to interact with women.

I did using Gemini (the protocol, not Google's thing) and Gopher.

Your machine is not only pretty, but also very interesting!

So, after asking on the typewriter Discord, people there confirmed my suspicions, there's something off with this number: it lacks a prefix and is black on white while normally they are white on black. Conclusion: it's probably reinscribed, so there's no way to know if it's the original one or not.

However, the features are coherent for a machine with that serial, so it's probable that it's the original one, but reinscribed after a service, for example. So it looks like you have a machine constructed within the first year of production. It turns 100 this year, or in 2026, that's cool :-).

But there's also an other possibility: there's stories that typewriter enthusiasts tell each others around campfires that some Underwood could have been assembled in Europe. Is the country of fabrication mentioned anywhere on the machine? Probably in the back, under the patents?

It looks like it is, and if it is you have a very old machine! Probably from 1925 or 1926 (the first year of production). But there's something a little strange, so I'll ask people more knowledgeable than me and I confirm this claim, or not.

Gorgeous thing! The model is quite easily discernable: it's an Underwood Portable, in the 4-bank version (there were a 3-bank version too). Constructed between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression of 1929 and the 1950s, it's a very beautiful machine!

If you give me its serial number (on the right front flange or leg by which the machine is fastened to the case board) I should be able to give you its exact year of construction, if you're interested.

Thanks! Do you know the brand and / or model of your typewriter?

Thanks!

Thanks!

Have you ever advertised it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ?

Now I did 😅. Thanks for the recommendation!

I'm a typewriter fan. 15 days ago, I asked the admins of lemmy.cafe to be nominated moderator of !typewriters@lemmy.cafe which was abandoned and they quickly and kindly answered positively.

I'm not sure it's a good strategy, but for a month and a half I post links to all typewriter-related blogposts, YouTube videos and podcasts that appear in my RSS-feed, and I have a handful upvotes for every post, so at least a few persons find them interesting. And three other persons published things since I begun, even if each one published only once; it's more than in the months that preceded my implication. It's still not much, but I'm quite happy with the result for now!

I also created !typecasts@sh.itjust.works, which is a home for things published with a typewriter but not necessarily about typewriters. It's even more niche than !typewriters@lemmy.cafe, nobody but me ever published, but it works I guess.

Not against q regional adversary. But against their own population, they would.

Assad gazed Syrian rebels, so I don't think the Guardians of the Revolution wouldn't nuke a rebelled city. That would stop the revolt instantly.

Boooooooo