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MOAR Pattern Weights

Posted on August 9, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms
Six hexagonal blocks with a Standard Compliant sticker on top: mobian (blue variant), alizarin molecule, Use Jabber / Do Crime, #FreeSoftWear, indigotin molecule, The internet is ours with a cat that plays with yarn.

I’ve collected some more Standard Compliantstickers.

A picture of the lid of my laptop: a relatively old thinkpad carpeted with hexagonal stickers: Fediverse, a Debian swirl made of cat paw prints, #FreeSoftWear, 31 years of Debian, Open Source Hardware, XMPP, Ada Lovelace, rainbow holographic Fediverse, mobian (blue sticker), tails (cut from a round one), Use Jabber / Do Crime, LIFO, people consensually doing things together (center piece), GL-Como, Piecepack, indigotin, my phone runs debian btw, reproducible builds (cut from round), 4 freedoms in Italian (cut from round), Debian tea, alizarin, Software Heritage (cut from round), ournet.rocks (the cat also seen above), Python, this machine kills -9 daemons, 25 years of FOSDEM, Friendica, Flare. There are only 5 full hexagonal slots free.

Some went on my laptop, of course, but some were selected for another tool I use relatively often: more pattern weights like the ones I blogged about in February.

And of course the sources:

I have enough washers to make two more weights, and even more stickers, but the printer is currently not in use, so I guess they will happen a few months or so in the future.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Oblomov I'm not going to change laptop, this one is still pretty new (to me)!

other than that, probably make more pattern weights, as I can always print more? :D (I'd need to get a new box to keep them in, as the current one is full, too :D )

The laptop lid is covered by a vinyl sheet, so in theory I could remove it, put a new one on and start again, but I don't think I want to do anything like that (the vinyl sheet was put in place by the shop that I've bought the — reconditioned — laptop from)

Also, saving stickers for a future laptop is of course an option.

@Oblomov
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Oblomov also, If I knew how to design board games, I would definitely design a game that uses Standard Compliant stickers as tiles (attached to something lighter than the pattern weights, but still with some thickness) and various Piecepack pieces.
@Oblomov

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Oblomov
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that sounds like a brilliant idea. I guess a portable Settlers of Catan could be a starting point, copyrights aside.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Oblomov AFAIK because of the way copyright works a game with the mechanics heavily inspired by Settlers of Catan but a different setting, different text, different graphics etc. would be fine.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@Oblomov coincidentally, if anybody has an European source for fridge magnet bases in the shape of an hexagon 5.08 cm tall, I'd be happy to hear about it :D

(I think I can get sheet and cut them, but if pre-cut existed it would be easier)

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