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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elegoo Centauri Carbon questions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The price of a capable printer has come down quite a bit over the last few years. I haven’t got any experience with Elegoo printers myself, but I’d expect it to at least work well enough at first. Longevity could be questionable though.

  Bamboo printers have proven to be very capable, easy to use, and reliable, but they are locked down quite a bit. If you want a printer you can tinker with, Bamboo is not the way to go.

  Depending on your budget, a Prusa would be the best of both worlds, excellent print quality, reliability, and they’re about as open as modern consumer printer get. If you go this route, I would recommend against the Prusa Mini. I’m sure it’s a good printer, but it’s quite outdated now. If you can afford it, I’ve heard the Core One is a great printer, plus you’ll be able to add a Bondtech INDX system later for multimaterial.

  The most open option (though the one with the most commitment) would be to build a kit printer like a Voron or a RatRig (Prusa also offers their printers as kits, which I would recommend if you go that route). Building a printer allows you to truly understand the machine, plus, I find it to be a lot of fun.

  Prusa kits will come with everything you need to build a printer (except for some tools, I would assume).

  Voron kits are all unofficial, but most who build Vorons use a kit. The LDO kits are the best, but I’ve also built from a Formbot kit and it was fine. Voron kits typically won’t come with the printed parts, though some do. The parts need to be printed with either ABS or ASA, so not all printer will work.

  I haven’t got any experience with RatRig printers, but I think the kits are official, so I would expect them to be good quality. Not sure if they come with printed parts or not.

  Sorry for the wall of text TLDR: Elegoo: Cheap, open-ish, questionable reliability BAMBOO: Affordable, very closed, reliable Prusa: Expensive, open, reliable Voron: Expensive, very open, large commitment RatRig: same as Voron, with a little less commitment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guide recommendation for absolute newbies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d also note that resin printing is a huge pita compared to FDM. Resin has quite a few post-processing steps, plus it requires much more ventilation and handling equipment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tried makin nookie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pls don’t make me go back Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then there’s the og Xbox and it’s clock capacitor. Nothing like grabbing your console out of storage to find out it blew a cap and dissolved some of the traces on the PCB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security camera recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for Unifi Protect. Their hardware may be a bit pricey, but it doesn’t require any cloud/Internet connection and the app/interface is excellent.

  I haven’t tried the 3rd party cam support, but I don’t think the price for the cameras is too outlandish for what they are and how well they’re built.

  Iirc the Unifi Protect software can be self-hosted now too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite open source 3D printers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve built a 0.2 and a 2.4 from kits and they’re great printers with loads of mods available, but I find them had to recommend unless you have the ability to print your own parts. You can buy a kit that comes with the printed parts or get them through the print it forward program, but if you break any of the parts during the build, it can be challenging to source a replacement. If you do build one and don’t have access to another printer, I would recommend printing replacements for the most critical components once you get it running (especially the hot end parts). Otherwise, they’re super fun projects and I can’t recommend them enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First, from all the ones I’ve installed, they have all been all in one units with the heat pump on top of the tank that use the room air as the source. Not saying split hp water heaters don’t exist, I just haven’t seen any. The install for these units is practically identical to a standard electric water heater except you need to pipe a drain for the condensate.

  The ones I’ve seen also include a resistive element and can act in a hybrid mode where they heat the water mostly with the heat pump, but can use resistive to boost the temp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s mostly because these price increases are happening at the same time as the publishers are raking in record profits. It also doesn’t help that a lot of the games seeing the increase are subpar cash grabs.

  I don’t see any problems with charging more than $60 for a game as long as the game is worth what they’re asking. I bought Metaphor Refantazio and TotK at a full $70 and felt both were worth that (screw Nintendo, but the game’s really good).

  Development costs have increased drastically in the past couple decades, and while the customer base has also increased quite a bit, I think the market is reaching saturation.

  I think that while greed is the most common reason for the increase, there are some legitimate reasons people should take into account before denouncing every price increase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Just Proved They're No Different Than Google⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad take imo. The Wan Show (the podcast this clip is from) has been around for over 12 years and started back when live video podcasts were hardly a thing, so I feel like it should get at least part of an exception to the “2 guys sitting at microphones” point. Many people in here seem to dislike LTT for some variety of reasons, some valid, some not, but I don’t think their podcast existing should be one of them. I can’t really comment on Linus’s voice as that is entirely subjective. The point they were trying to make here is that despite how apple has made many feel, they are still a soulless corporation, no different than any other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When's the Maker Studios retrospective happening?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For those who don’t get it

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  Epic rap battles of history: Darth Vader vs Adolf Hitler