I'm in my late 20's and while I have a good job and enough cash on hand that I could make a down payment and move out, I'm not sure that I want to... As a US-ian The economy is in pretty rough shape and I'm not sure I want to be tied up in a mortgage when the bubbles start popping. Plus, if I were to uproot myself and move away from my family and friends, I'd almost rather full send it and emigrate to somewhere walkable, where the wrong medical diagnosis isn't a financial death sentence.
Ender's 3 price point is tricky, because the initial machine is so cheap there isn't a whole lot else in the same sub-$200 bracket that's particularly great. Realistically, if you can step up to $300 (which you'd probably spend in upgrades for the ender anyway), you've got the Bambu A1 and Elegoo Centauri Carbon. I'm not personally a fan of Bambu, but they are very set and forget folks that don't mind being in an ecosystem seem to love them. Centauri is on the newer side, but from everything I've seen, it seems to be a very strong contender for best budget printer (also worth noting that there's rumblings of a version 2 coming out early year, so you might be able to snag a clearance sale or some shiny new features).
I'm taking this as an excuse to share Ian's shoelace site (complete with step by step instructions on how that knot works and how to tie it) because it's one of those corners of the Internet that's handy to know about. Plus, I feel like most people don't realize that how a shoe is laced can dramatically change the fit and comfort of said shoe.
It was absolutely Bughouse (with some house rules tacked on)! It's been years since I've played, but I'd never thought to see if the variation had a formal name. Thank you!
I once played a team chess variant where each player could place pieces captured by their partner on their half of the board instead of moving. Made for some of the wackiest play lines since a piece materializing on the board could throw off your whole plan, but super fun from a strategy perspective, since board state could change dramatically between turns.
Sonarqube is a kind of like an automated code quality checker that works for a bunch of programming languages. It's pretty configurable (though I've never configured it myself), so it can be set up to check a code base for a wide range of things.
There's a couple of different ways to run it, in my experience bigger companies usually have a dedicated server on their internal networks that connects to their CI/CD pipelines so that code gets checked before it gets merged in.
On a smaller scale, it's also possible to run locally (either on metal or inside a docker container). From there you'd install a plugin to your IDE of choice.
4k's are their own special thing, but for regular Blu-ray's I've had good luck using the MakeMKVintegration for VLC (and Handbrake).
Technically there's also libbluray from the same folks that make VLC, but in order to use it you have to have a list of disk IDs and their decryption keys which are annoying to get ahold of (I think I remember running across a community generated list or a methodology to break the key on avsforum, but it's been years since I mucked with it- makemkv is significantly easier)
Also, if you want disk menus, you'll need to have some version of the java 8 runtime installed and configured for VLC to use.
I wouldn't let multicolor be a barrier for entry for you. It's something that can technically be added later, but it is much more difficult to convert a printer to be able to work with engineering materials. Personally speaking, I also wouldn't mix multicolor and engineering materials ABS is pretty cheap but anything that would need a hardened nozzle (like glass or carbon fiber reinforced filaments) is almost too expensive to waste purging. Plus, if I'm remembering correctly, color swapped prints aren't quite as strong structurally as monofilament prints.
technically speaking as long as your printer can run Klipper, there are community projects like Box Turtle or Enraged Rabbit that are meant for more general use (if you're okay tinkering with things) if Elegoo never gets around to releasing their multicolor unit.
Heads up, PEI sheets are great because you can take them off and flex them a bit to pop parts off, but it is worth noting that PETG (and TPU) can also bond too well to PEI. It depends a bit on the kind and quality of the PEI, but you may still want to use a release layer (I'm partial to washable glue sticks, but everyone has their own personal preferences) just to keep your plate safe.
A solid majority of Bastille's discography comes to mind, though not as outright depressing as Pumped Up Kicks or Youth of a Nation, most of their tracks tend to be very instrumentally upbeat and lively, with gorgeous vocals, but thematically darker lyrics / topics. Happier comes to mind as immediately fitting the prompt (and having enough radio play to be recognizable), but The Draw, Haunt, and Skulls also fit well (I'd also included their cover of City High's What Would You Do, also long as being a cover isn't a immediate disqualifier).
I feel like they're kind of slept on since they don't get a whole lot of radio play outside of a handful of songs, but all their other work is just so good. Personal top favorite artist, hands down.
I really like my MX master 2S (second only to my MX Vertical, because I get wrist pain), it's been really solid for programming, office tasks, light gaming and even some fps titles (I play almost exclusively arcade/non-competitive modes though). That said, I'm not sure I'd recommend it for OP, the MX line isn't known for using the best rubber materials (the rubber on mine is starting to wear out on the right side and on the scroll wheels - I know v3 switched to using metal scroll wheels which should help a bunch, but I'm not sure if they've changed/ fixed anything else).
I've been rocking a Framework 16 for about a year now and would happily recommend it. It's a bit more upfront, but I love knowing that I can fix or replace just about anything on it (pretty affordably too). It's just so refreshing to not have to worry about dumb shit like an obscure power adapter or port forcing my laptop into an early retirement.
It's not the lightest laptop I've ever had, but realistically not all that much different from my last gaming laptop. Now that I'm not a full time student anymore I could probably get away with one of the smaller models, but the form factor is pretty nice.
Agreed. Not to burst OPs bubble, but I highly doubt they're hitting a flow rate that high.
If I had to guess, Orca is capping their extrusion move speeds at whatever speed the filament_max_volumetric_speed of their filament profile is set to. In other words, if the profile is set to 12 (default for Creality Generic PLA) the actual speed is probably something like 150mm/s (flow / (nozzle diameter * layer height), so 12 / (0.4 * 0.2)), regardless of what the speed value is set to.
I'm in my late 20's and while I have a good job and enough cash on hand that I could make a down payment and move out, I'm not sure that I want to... As a US-ian The economy is in pretty rough shape and I'm not sure I want to be tied up in a mortgage when the bubbles start popping. Plus, if I were to uproot myself and move away from my family and friends, I'd almost rather full send it and emigrate to somewhere walkable, where the wrong medical diagnosis isn't a financial death sentence.