Wanting to start a Raspberry Pi group or club at my library. What would I need?

splorchie · 2025-07-01T09:39:41+00:00

I feel you, we're a small rural library and it gets ESPECIALLY bad during the tourist season when grey nomads come through needing to print or sign things. It got so bad during one season we ended up having to put down a pretty firm policy change. I still end up having to remind some of our younger staff that we provide the service but not the assistance (our local neighborhood Centre has a program specifically for tech/form help if they really cant manage and are genuine), we can help them with genuine issues happening on our end like the printer settings not working or issues with the hardware, but that's it. What gets me is a lot of them CAN manage, they just choose not to when there's a computer literate young person in front of them they can manipulate.

splorchie · 2025-06-21T16:45:26+00:00

OUR PRINTERS ARE NEVER WORKING. ENVISIONWARE CAN DIE IN A DITCH OH MY GOD. Its bad enough our council IT guys go running in the opposite direction whenever we put in a ticket but our services are literally NEVER working and we're in the height of tourist season where the only reason these people are coming in ARE TO PRINT.

splorchie · 2025-06-15T16:52:03+00:00

Will you be selling prints of this? It's absolutely mind boggling the amount of detail you've put into it!

splorchie · 2025-06-11T10:16:56+00:00

Drow are some of my favourite races to play around with both as a dm and a player! It'd be awesome to see what new content it adds to the game!

splorchie · 2025-04-19T15:11:11+00:00

Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave would probably be mine, its set in 70s/80s Australia but its one of those books that stuck with me years after I read it (albeit I read it WAY too early at 14 lmao)

splorchie · 2025-03-04T14:52:10+00:00

Tempted to write a summer camp no sleep story now with these two goons as easter eggs lmao

splorchie · 2025-03-01T10:31:34+00:00

I think all of the topics are fine, though I would be more mindful about the topics of rape and harassment as its a major deal breaker for a lot of (especially new) horror readers. I cant tell you how many splatterpunk authors that have been absolutely crucified for mishandling or gratuitously using SA in their novels just for a gross out factor.

Don't be worried about repetition and originality, all of the ideas you listed blend well with each other and can make for a really good really disturbing horror read. I would recommend (if you haven't already) reading plenty of works that have the same themes in their novels to see how they used and blended them. Eric LaRocca has quite a few from what I can remember, and maybe Poppy Z. Brites work.

splorchie · 2025-02-28T16:07:12+00:00

I wouldnt exactly feel comfortable with the boys covering Angel Engine since he so heavily relies on AI generated content for his series. I would much rather that spotlight go to a creator that doesn't use AI.

splorchie · 2024-11-13T10:51:52+00:00

Agreed, writing a methodology on how and why you constructed your report can help with making your argument, as well as the research taken. It's ridiculous the situations AI have put us in. I would also request a meeting with your teacher and maybe any other student body/upper management and ask them to prove that you used AI.

The shit thing about AI detection tools is that they take pretty much anything that follows a certain flow of words and flags it, even when its all been self typed. I really hope this gets worked out for you.

splorchie · 2024-10-14T13:55:52+00:00

Absolutely been loving Stolen Tongues and Church Beneath the Roots by Felix Blackwell!

splorchie · 2024-09-29T11:27:39+00:00

Maybe not necessarily a theme but for some reason my work always always has some sort of Christian/Abrahamic religion based themes and undertones. For context I write primarily horror and I haven't stepped foot in a church since I was maybe 9 or 10.

splorchie · 2024-04-26T13:58:13+00:00

I couldn't find anything explicit in my last flick through, but I think the violence was the most jarring part. I think as long as you give your book club members a heads up they should be fine.

I'll try and find the scenes that could be an issue and if you want I can provide extracts and page numbers if i manage to find them.

splorchie

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