Creality K1

See this is one of the things that confuses me. ASA supposedly requires a bed temperature of 120 but the K1 supposedly only goes to 100. Did you modify yours to get hotter or did it just work?

Thanks for the warning about the fumes. This machine will go out in the garage and be externally vented.

The Centauri Carbon is surprisingly inexpensive, almost suspiciously so. I don’t need multi-color so that won’t be a problem. I’ll look into this one more.

The Snapmaker U1 looks interesting and it’s currently on sale for $849 so it’s in my budget -but- were back to the “I want a guarantee the thing will print ASA without 100 hours of frustration and faffing about.” thing.

BUT: please, for the love of god,the spaghetti monster and everyone else…

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I appreciate your warning about ASA and its toxic fumes. The machine will live in my 3 car garage where I can put an externally vented hood over it or enclose it completely.

And stay away from Bambu,imho.

That’s a bummer to hear as they’re one of the few manufacturer names that I actually recognize!

I know that BL has some controversy regarding lock in but I can’t even figure out which of their models would do I want in order to buy it!

The nation of Iran will go through a period of adjustment and then be fine. The government is a different matter.

I’ve been strongly considering adding a whole home humidifier and after watching I’m going to buy an Aprilaire 700 like his and do the same upgrade to it!

“Authoritarianism” isnt even real, its jus another CIA op from the 60s so they could label any bad scary commie country as it

I didn’t realize that the CIA even existed in 1883.

The Post 9/11 situation with Mass Media and RT is why it’s so desperately important for a Government to not lie or cover up it’s actions. Another example of this is Al Jazeera. The US Government’s dedication to hiding its dirty deeds opened the door for AJ to establish credibility which they later used against the US and it’s Government.

Smart stuff is fine, you just need to self host the controller.

You think he’s the only one? Not a chance…

US Government? She’s already in the UK, why would she leave a Pro League to go an Amatuer one?

My Galaxy S22+ is over 3 years old and I expect to get at least two more years out of it. I can afford to get a new smartphone every year if I want but there’s no longer any compelling reason to do so.

And I never see any headlines of any ICE agents being prosecuted.

There’s been at least five this year.

Cloudflare has a ton of services in their “free” tier and there’s a lot of confusion in here because people toss around “Cloudflare” without specifying which service they are actually talking about.

If you are using Cloudflared (notice the d) with your own LE Cert then you are probably fine.

The term VPN is pure marketing bs. What is called VPN today used to be called Proxy Server.

Perhaps if you are only talking about the consumer level stuff advertised on TV. Otherwise I can assure you that “Virtual Private Networks” are a real thing that have absolutely nothing to do with Proxy Servers.

On down the comment chain you mention "…our computers would not see each other and would not be able to connect to each other via that service. " as some kind of test of whether a thing is a VPN or Proxy Service but what you’re missing is that this is a completely common and advisable configuration for companies. In fact Zero Trust essentially demands configurations like this. When Bob from Marketing fires up his VPN to the Corporate Office he doesn’t need access to every server and desktop there nor does his laptop need to be able to access the laptops of other VPN users. They get access to what they need and nothing more.

Hell the ability to access the internet via the tunnel, called Split Tunneling, is also controllable.

It’s that ability to control where the tunnel terminates that allows consumer VPNs, like Proton, to be used the way they are.

So while private individuals absolutely do use VPNs as an ersatz replacement for Proxy Servers they are nowhere near the whole use case for VPNs.

Also…uhhh…there’s stuff in there about the Clinton’s and the Oklahoma City bombing. WTF?!

These commenters just want to be outraged. If schools were suddenly confiscating phones and forcing students to unlock them they’d be on here rabble rousing about First Amendment rights, how Schools are run like prisons, and how students aren’t being respected.

You should know that the person you are going back and forth with has an exceptionally argumentative and unpleasant comment history.

Are we discussing cars or trucks? You use both terms but they are very different things. The article itself is discussing CARS and the very first picture is of a Honda Life.

In your original comment you said “average American car”. Which to me as an American is clearly a reference to a CAR. And by sales the three most popular CARS in America are the Nissan Sentra, the Toyota Corolla, and the Honda Civic. If you push it to Top 4 then the Tesla Model 3 enters the chat. None of those are called “trucks” anywhere in the world.

an f 350 (American large car) has between 400 to 500 hp

That is not a car. It is a Heavy Duty truck, one of the largest behomeths commonly (and I use that term loosely) sold in America. By sales volume the Full Ton and up trucks like the F350 are maybe 20% of total truck sales, the rest are 1/2 and 3/4 ton trucks.

If you want to bag on American trucks that’s fine but that isn’t what you brought up nor are they what my comment was about.

I wouldn’t purchase a Kei truck in America. It’s too small to be used for heavy loads or over distance and in the city a small van is superior in literally every way as it’s storage is both lockable and protected from the elements. That Honda Life in the first picture is better for nearly every use case than a Kei truck.

Loved those back in the day but they were not safe and a lot of people died in them. There’s no chance that car would pass today’s crash tests.

I had a serious fetish for Ford EXPs and Escorts in the late 80s / early 90s. Me and my buddies did lots of hop-up work and engine rebuilds. Set aside the nostalgia though and they were absolute piles of crap.

It won’t really cost much less. The difference between a 1.6l 100hp engine and a 1.6l 150hp engine is just a turbocharger and those are less than $1,000 for an auto maker. So the cost of the car could potentially drop from 28,000 to 27,000 which is peanuts. The cost of maintenance between those two vehicles would be almost non-existent.

Cars aren’t expensive because of horsepower. They are expensive because of labor cost and government regulation. The less you have of either of those the lower the production cost goes and the less expensive the vehicles get.

Since the late 70’s, the US auto industry has shown that it is unable to make small cars with low margins like other countries.

Oh they can they just don’t want to. GM, Ford, and Dodge have occasionally released small low margin vehicles but they either get discontinued or bloated and made more expensive, typically starting about 5 years in.

It ain’t just US Domestics either. How big is a 2025 Honda Accord vs a 1986 model?

If the Big 3 suffered consequences, they would be the Bug 2 or the Big 1 by now.

I’ve been arguing that same thing for over 20 years. Heck I was just doing it again over the weekend. There isn’t enough space in the US auto market for 3 Domestic Manufacturers anymore. They should have let Chrysler / Dodge die back in the '80s, the entire auto industry would be more healthy if they had.