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In the browser? Probably, yes, there are browser based vnc clients, but orca itself is pretty resource intensive. So not unless you have some beefy sbc on regular computer on your voron.

bbl a1 is a good machine, you can expect it to print fine. Most of the modern printers can, reliably, with exceptions like creality, where everytime it’s a lottery. I won’t recommend prusa unless you will find yourself being not only in the 3dprinting hobby but in a printers hobby as well. Anyway, start with simple, smaller projects, there is a learning curve, and don’t assume that everything will just work.

Good luck and have fun!

There is a repackaged appimage on AUR called orca-slicer-bin, but I had problems with both Appimages and Flatpacks in recent releases. Fresh 2.5 has multiple reported visual bugs that affect me.

Personal opinion: New features are great, support for new-ish printers is great as well. I don’t like the new focus on Cloud Services.

They are cool (probably), but plugin functionality apparently requires an account there? Also a lot of surface level bugs came with recent releases (especially on linux).

Size: 256 mm^3 is good enough for vast majority of prints.

Filaments: you either go with premium priced name-brand filaments or you go with cheaper local manufacturers (there aren’t a lot of difference for basic filaments, except for color availability). Compatibility depends on material being used, some require hardened steel nozzles or higher temperatures, or both. You can check before buying a spool. For basic PLA (hyper/ultra/whatever), PETG (PCTG), you don’t need anything. When buying it’s a good idea too look for manufacturer supplied parameters for printing it, they often provide them. If there are noneand the filament isn’t directly supported in your slicer, you can always choose generic material. You can store your plastic wherever as long as it isn’t direct sunlight. If they are already opened/partially used, you can store them in airtight plastic containers for food.

Accessories are mostly unneeded.

Alternatives: You should look at Elegoo Centauri Carbon (2) or Snapmaker U1. Bbl ease-of-use is greatly overblown.

Bambulab is known to only give away their printers when reviews are positive, so unless they bought them .

Also reviews of printers that printed less than 1000 hours aren’t very usable (to me).

Orca but I’m looking at preflight.

I think I’ve just never worked in an environment like this it was always either a startup where nobody cares about branding of some tool (also there wouldn’t even be a discussion about it) or places where it wasn’t a priority as long as it worked because menagerial class limited in numbers so they couldn’t poke where it wasn’t required.

Your work environment is bad if they are so easily distracted by branding and can’t deal with ‘unporfessional’ and ‘weird’ things.

If your goal is to make a working gun, it’s pretty achievable, repairing or restoring existing one is obviously quite a bit harder.

Prometheus + grafana. It’s overkill tbh, most of the services restart automatically and I mostly ignore it. (it’s an artifact from life where I cared about it)

healthchecks.io and matrix.

I would at least try it, looks nice!

Right, $14-30/m actually adds up to hundreds and is less reliable.

I know, I know super duper clouds, six nines of availability for cloud services etc., yet github (for example) fails more often then my media/git/file/print server on 10 y.o. laptop with tens of terabytes of media and data, that is less maintened and exists in a far worse conditions (comparison is incorrect but the fact stays).

Interesting article, lots of information.

Anyway, I haven’t printed PLA for some time (years really) and recently got a few spools for free. Newest one was 3 years old, oldest 9. Out of 6 spools only one was unusable (unopened, bambulab, i believe, it turned into oily paste), two opened spools were really dusty and first layer on the spool got brittle, underneath they were fine. Oldest was verbatim and it was perfectly fine.

Support fins when added during design phase are insanely good, additionally you can use support “wedges” for internal geometry, huge bonus is ease of removal (don’t really care about visual aspects).

I don’t have any personal experience, but there are some interesting experiments being made by spanish guy with fully printed linear bearings and ptfe tubes.

Yeah, stratsys supporters.

Hopefully bbl will appeal and win.

Often arch gets newer stuff at the same time or later than fedora.

Dunno, some homeless guy with schizophrenia probably isn’t ahead of his time and just ill. (I get it, they mean crazy in the sense weird)

You don’t need to mod the easy ones, tho

That’s a hardcore throw into the hobby, e3v1 is one of the least easy to start ones.

Yeah, but being voted emperor is a weird ceremony as well, no?

Earlier emperors needed a lot of ceremony about actually wielding power as first citizens of republic didn’t they?

Optimistic. Thanks, will look it up.

Interesting, did they call it world war 1 or just world war?

First world war wasn’t named as such before the second one, and it wasn’t characterized just by military action happening everywhere, but by absolute number of casualties and scale of it. Same with the second one.

7 years war took maybe a million lives, while battles for gallipolli, ypres, lviv, somme, etc. etc. took anywhere from 500k to 1.2m each.

They were filthy and miserable, compared to modern people, obviously not to the extent of TV portrayals, but they weren’t actually able to take shower every day or have 5 day work week and work days of ~8 hours.

And nothing of value was lost. One r*ssian empire gone, next one rose.