If I was on my laptop and not my phone I would post a screenshot with a P just for you

“…but at least I know I’m not free”

Calibrations are important, but the defaults should work reasonably OK out of the box. Don’t expect perfection from the start, aim for “good enough” and improve over time.

• Bed leveling (tramming) is mostly automated these days, since it’s such a vital step
• Extrusion multiplier (a.k.a. flow rate) needs to be done on a per filament basis, but it’ll probably work fine with defaults. Dialing this in is useful, but not super critical in the beginning.
• Pressure advance… eh, no comment, as I haven’t mastered this yet. Suffice to say my petg prints could be better, and this is the likely reason

Beyond that, filaments vary in quality. Try to stick to one brand and type that works well for you and your needs and once you’ve mastered that, try others.

And learn blender (or anything else that can export to .stl or other supported formats). It turns your printer into a proper household tool you wouldn’t be able to live without. My house has so many functional prints that I wouldn’t be able to go back to not being able to print whatever doodad I need.

EDIT: Things you should have:

• Filament dryer. Nothing fancy needed. I have one that can hold two spools at once, so that I can print from one spool while the next spool is drying.
• Calipers are vital for measuring things you want to print.
• Micrometer tool is excellent for dialing in flow rate perfectly.

Well, there’s a footnote on my end: Me taking the drives home is a bit of a grey area, as the procedures say that the drives are to be mechanically destroyed when no longer needed. It doesn’t specify needed by whom. And I do attack them with my angle grinder, so it’s in accordance with company policy.

And yes, my employer knows and is OK with it. We go through a ridiculous amount of drives due to large storage needs, so pragmatism tends to trump bureaucracy.

I usually scavenge old drives from work. On one hand they’re a bit smaller than I’d like them to be, but on the other hand they’re free except from the minor work and documentation involved in ensuring that no company related data remain.

“Now is not the time. We have more important matters to focus on”

Gets nothing done regarding any of those matters.

I don’t really choose my travel destinations based on traffic safety.

By the same logic, I should travel to Nigeria as often as I can because there are a lot fewer moose attacks there than where I live.

A single metric should not determine a travel destination

Poverty isn’t the only cause of obesity. There have been countless marketing campaigns for sugar, and for those of us who are used to “normal” levels notice it right away; As a European who have spent a lot of time in the US, I find US bread basically inedible.

Or beat it to his couch. Could go either way.

Yup, there’s no kinkshaming here

“But we need someone electable, someone both sides like!”

Yeah no, the “both sides” these people are referring to is the defensive and offensive wing of the same group.

Well, he seems to be channeling some real Field Marshal Haig energy when it comes to losing soldiers

Same. My apathy of football is suddenly a virtue.

⚽️🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

I wouldn’t say overpriced, as that carries the implication that nobody should pay that much.

But that it’s pricier than some competitors, sure. But they’ve basically floated the R&D cost for the entire industry, and that cost carries interest.

As some other megalomaniac learned in Iran recently: It takes two to TACO

Prusa walked so other manufacturers could run. 15 years ago prusa were the ones who made 3d printing a viable hobby for the rest of us. And all this while keeping their designs and code open source.

Today I view the extra I pay today for their products as a well deserved reward for their integrity.

There’s a link in there to its spiritual successor which has newer stuff. I just found the one I needed from 2019.

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Well, that’s not really synergy then, is it.

Examples I’ve seen where synergy has been used correctly: Two projects with different technologies, each of which has a dedicated team. The project leads agreed that it would be a good idea to use both teams for both projects “mainly for crosstraining, but the different technology backgrounds should yield some synergy within both teams”