Marvelicious

I've had good results with most of Bambu's filament, BUT, it comes wet. Just dry it thoroughly first and you'll save yourself a lot of stress.

So this isn't a tool to remind me when it's time to reorder my 55 gallon drum of personal lubricant?

(Apologies for linking to Amazon... it was them or Walmart and they're both terrible)

I grow mine in containers and have made it work not even bothering with new soil until spring. Unfortunately, this year I had an early freeze sneak up on me and I'm not sure if any of them are going to make it, but we'll see shortly.

I can wait until they work the bugs out.

We're on very similar pages I think.

Honestly, if I were in the market for another machine right now I'd be taking a hard look at building a Voron. I don't WANT a project like that, but it seems like the best compromise in the quality and capability vs price compromise. I'm told they're working on a 600mm³ model that may really tempt me when they finish.

I installed the X-plus firmware, switched to LAN mode, blocked WAN acess at my router and use Orca slicer and honestly, I'm pretty happy with the result. That doesn't mean I'd give Bambu a second chance after their recent moves.

"There is no huge open source for regular printers..."

Given the state of regular printers, I'd say this is an excellent argument that there should be! I prefer actually printing to tinkering as well, but I've been around long enough to watch corporate interests destroy any number of tech related things from 2d printers to search engines. Bambu and Apple are both excellent examples of what not to do as well.

They have showed their hand. i would be VERY unlikely to extend my trust to Bambu again. To be clear, I don't necessarily regret my purchase of an X1C, but I'm now running in "local" mode with my machine blocked from WAN access and I don't intend to let Bambu back in.

There are a lot of ways to go. My own isn't particularly efficient, but it's an old rack mount server. Everything is built like a tank. It's robust as hell, and yet everything was well used and cheap. Probably not a good solution if you live somewhere with expensive power, but I don't.

I've been hosting Emby forever (and the requisite software to acquire content 😉).

Recently I added Nextcloud to facilitate cutting several Google products out of my life. Combined with a few FOSS apps, it's currently doing the job of Drive (storage) and Keep (notes), and I'm planning to move my contacts and calendar this week.

Yeah, it's a real shame that Amazon is poisoning the section of the market that GC had already poisoned for the independent guitar shops. Best of luck finding a new section of the market to destroy though...