The city government takes care of the paper work, everyone needs one to get essential services in Spain and it has to be renewed every year or so. (The site below specifies expats, but everyone needs one)

Here is some more information:

https://www.thinkspain.com/information/moving-to-spain/what-is-the-padron-and-how-to-register-on-it

From that site:

If you are an expat living in Spain, it’s important to get registered with your local town hall on the padrón.The Padrón is essentially a register of the local population of a town or city in Spain. In Spanish it’s full name is Certificado de Empadronamiento. It is the certificate that confirms your address, your connection with the town/city, and your official residency in that area. This register allows the town hall to track the population and calculate the resources that should be allocated.

Where I live in Spain this is exactly the case, it’s called a Padrón, and pretty much everyone adheres to it. Without it it’s impossible to do most any business in Spain.

And very soon facebook as well…

and very soon Facebook as well…

Ah cool, I have used them in the past for laptops and my switch, but I didn’t realize they also cover appliances and a bunch of other categories.

Great point. Think of how incredible it would be if you could go on line and get manuals to fix any part of anything you own from a PS5 to a Refrigerator, to a Rivan Truck including all the protocols, chip sets, ect… Or just explore them to see how things work, I’m sure a lot of great inventions and ideas came about from people tinkering with and exploring manuals like these. Anymore these are considered “top secret” and you have to reverse engineer anything to figure out how it works. I think this speaks more to the fact that the things you “buy” these days aren’t really considered yours. You are borrowing the IP to use for a fee and if it breaks, tough shit. Throw it out and get a new one.

By far one of the most interesting articles I’ve seen on Lemmy so far, thanks for the link

They provide services to ALL people. So tired of reading that only the poor use the library. My kids are always begging to be taken there to get books and do activities. We just used the color printer/copier at ours the other day and the first 3 copies were free. Libraries are an amazing community resource for EVERYONE.