You'll want to double check me but I think Fusion360 still has a free version buried somewhere on their site. I know last time I opened mine it was working but I thought I'd read something about it going away.
What's funny is that nobody alive today was alive and in the military for any major conflict that we were actually victorious in, so what "good old days" are these geezers even pining for? The days where we lost a bunch of soldiers in Vietnam and the ones who survived came back with PTSD and drug addictions?
I miss episodic "monster of the week" series like it. Now most shows are serialized where you have to pay attention to the stretched out story arcs and deal with filler episodes.
I can't help but think this would only make things worse for someone insecure about their size because now it's giving potential partners a false sense of reality that will be exposed the second they come off. It also seems weird because this isn't the 1980s where "nut hugger" jeans are popular either.
Until someone can do it cheaper and then they take over. This has already happened many, many times as chinese quality increased and wages and thus prices increased.
Unless some other nation finds a stockpile of rare earth minerals, slave labor, and bottomless government subsidies, I don't see this happening with EVs. Currently nobody else on the planet is able to sell them anywhere near the price China is and that's not because of simple cost cutting and business efficiency.
This is probably some agreement witn the Chinese government to give good press in other parts of the world in order to get benefits on vehicles sold in China. Ford's CEO put out a nearly identical article a few months ago.
P2S definitely has some nice upgrades but AFAIK isn't available for sale yet. Between the two I'd get the P2S but if you want to take advantage of the sale the P1S is still a good choice. $399 is less than I paid for my old bed slinger printer that needed constant tinkering and hundreds worth of upgrades after buying the printer. I currently have the X1C and just saw that I've hit 2800 hours of print time and apart from one repair at no cost to me has been totally rock solid with the number of failed prints countable on one hand.
Whatever you decide, I would highly recommend you get a CoreXY printer as the standard old "bed slinger" style of printer, where the bed moves back and forth along the Y axis, is now quite dated, slow and leads to lots of print issues especially for beginners. With a CoryXY construction, the bed is stationary apart from moving up and down along the Z axis and the nozzle moves on the X and Y axis.
For Prusa, this would be the CORE One. For Bambu this is the P1/P2, X1, or H2 series. Bambu is actually offering a sale starting today with the P1S at $399 USD or $549 USD with the AMS system (multi material).
Yeah imagine going to the hospital with a stroke and your on-call surgeon lives 1500 miles away, except in this case you've already paid them upfront and they're earning 6x the amount of other surgeons because they're "on-call." Fuck these corrupt pigs.
The I-Team also found six sergeants in the sheriff's office who live out of state - in Idaho, Nevada, Texas and Tennessee. Two of them work on the bomb squad where they made almost $600,000 in pay and benefits last year. They're supposed to respond to a bomb threat within one hour -- no way that's happening if they're in Tennessee.
Dont forget the constant shuffling of buttons and menus so that you are constantly learning everything for the first time and can never become proficient at using their software.
You'll want to double check me but I think Fusion360 still has a free version buried somewhere on their site. I know last time I opened mine it was working but I thought I'd read something about it going away.