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I have used a laptop without a screen as a server, raspberry pis, 10 year old laptop, proliant server, something with a via itx motherboard and a cheap cpu, like literal trash. So yeah your build is more than fine. Don’t stress your budget too much, but if you can afford this you will have better than my first “server”. Remember to have fun with it!

Lots of people use cncs and other stuff. Its a bigger club. Felt more inclusive.

OP started complaining about an Ender 3 v2.

OP has a low skill/knowledge level. OP then buys a K1, a maybe easier-to-use model, but not by much?

The ender 3 v2 won’t print well right out of the box - needs setup just like a cnc. K1 also wont. They’re not HP Laserjets.

Is the Ender 3 v2 from the last three years? It’s not. It comes from the CNC mindset. Your wishes are noted, but they are not the mindset that will help with the Ender 3 v2. You will run into nothing but frustration. Just get a bambu that is appropriate to your level of skill and interest in the thing.

For an HP or brother printer, you’re absolutely right. For something that is more of a CNC, your attitude is not as productive - takes a lot more to get a CNC going.

Printers, having a larger pool of users, have also been improved over time a lot more to be more of an appliance than the complicated mess I had to deal with in the 80’s. CNCs and 3d printers have not had enough mass adoption that simplicity of use has not been designed or battle-tested as much as with paper printers.

A 3d printer is closer to a lathe in ease of use, not at all similar to a paper printer.

I’ve had a Creality Ender 3 v2 for over 4 years, still printing on it with octoprint. It’s news to me that this thing has issues. I just set it and forget it, then come back to a print. Prints are not perfect, some tiny minor surface defects that I don’t give two shits about, but I have printed an assload of stuff on it.

One key factor for these numbers is that russians are fucking idiots, starting with Stalin and going all the way down. Look at how stupidly they die now, and imagine they were stupider back then.

As long as you’re having fun, keep going.

The phrasing by the person you are responding to is perfectly fine and shows ample understanding. Maybe you do not understand what they were positing.

What is stopping you from running HP-UX for all your workloads? The questuon is totally in purpose so that you’ll fill in what it means to you.

“What is stopping you from” <- this is a loaded question.

We’ve been hosting stuff long before docker existed. Docker isn’t necessary. It is helpful sometimes, and even useful in some cases, but it is not a requirement.

I had no problems with dependencies, config, etc because I am familiar with just running stuff on servers across multiple OSs. I am used to the workflow. I am also used to docker and k8s, mind you - I’ve even worked at a company that made k8s controllers + operators, etc. I believe in the right tool for the right job, where “right” varies on a case-by-case basis.

tl;dr docker is not an absolute necessity and your phrasing makes it seem like it’s the only way of self‐hosting you are comfy with. People are and have been comfy with a ton of other things for a long time.