Yea, for a novelty account sometimes I kinda just say stuff then regret it

Shit, we own the private sector. Or they own us, I can never remember

No! I am the leaker!

Yea, they take up too much funding that could be used for other orgs!

Doing alright, how you doing?

I could see an mmo using it for small random side quest generation where any npc could give you a quest tailored to the character. That kind of stuff would go along way to make big open worlds more “living”

Russian oligarchs use Linux

You and me both

Hehe, yea, I was poking fun at the “engineer”. There was a congressman a while ago that got caught posting right wing stuff on twitter from an alt account “as a black man” (dude was white of course”

You do realize asshole Republicans reverted before it could be more than implemented on a couple of highways

“Metric supporters argued the road signs were a crucial step in helping Americans get over any psychological blocks to switching measurement systems. But Republican Charles Grassley, then a congressman and now a senator from Iowa, killed proposed federal regulations that would have forced states to put up signs in kilometers.”

They literally locked putting up signs in both metric an Imperial

Also… remember my comment about old fucks raised on gas lead fumes…. Yea, the 70s……

Lol, that sounds very much “as a black man”

I’ll tell you, most of us in the states would love a total switch to metric. We use it where is matters most, but we also have an aging population raised on lead has fumes that think anything they don’t know is “communism” or “wholeness” or whatever else the propaganda right spews. Those are the assholes that pretty much stop progress on anything.

I’m big into 3D printing, actually got into the same argument with another 3D printing guy…. And I’m like, literally EVERYTHING we do is in metric. The whole damn hobby is metric.

I hate humanity

Go for the the sovol 7 or the Elgoo neptune 4

Creality’s quality control has plummeted over the last few years.

I Concur, ninja kitty is the source of all bad first layers

This, creality’s quality control has gone to crap, I would go with a Sovol over the ender

I was looking at that a while ago but none of the reviews I’ve read have been good

https://www.theverge.com/23612429/ankermake-m5-review-3d-printer

The price on it also dropped from 800 to 400 in just a year which isn’t a good sign

And there’s nothing wrong with ender 3’s , besides creality’s quality control in the last few years. They are a good machine to start on. They print well once they are dialed in and force you to tweak and upgrade them, so you are kinda pulled into learning how things work.

It’s harder to justify them when you can get a decent prusa clone on AliExpress for 250-300 bucks though

Honestly, ( and I say this as the owner of 2 ender 3’s). Just upgrade the control board and the extruder, and maybe print out some stuff to make it look nice. You’ll spend more money upgrading it than it will cost to just buy a sovol 6 or 7 which is a much better machine with all the stuff you would end up adding to the ender anyways.

Between my two Enders, upgrading to direct drives with decent extruders, double z axis screws etc. I could have just bought a nicer machine. I also have an Ideaformer print mill and a bambu p1s and it’s well worth the money to jump to a better machine when you can

You all are fighting over all these cad programs and most of us are over in tinker cad going “look! I made a box yay!”

Lol, don’t feel bad, I have a couple of ender 3s in my mix of printers, and one stopped extruding. I cleaned, then replaced the hot end, then moved on to testing the motor by plugging one of the other motor cables into it. Replaced the motor thinking that was the problem. Nope.

So then the only thing that could be the problem is the control board right? Fine, ordered a replacement and it STILL doesn’t extrude.

……it was the damn cable that goes to the extruder.

You can write fully functional code in C#! I pretty much made the switch over and it works great