I agree but having a more reliable printer you don’t have to fix is even better. It allowed me to start teaching myself CAD and now I spend time designing stuff around the house rather than fixing or upgrading the printer. I use Alibre Design, allows you to buy outright and no subscription if you don’t mind being on an older version.

Sounds intriguing, might be able to use this with Tailscale on a home box to access it on the go.

If you didn’t need 2.5 Gbps on the network, ace magician has a ryzen 5 mini that has a 2.5 Gbps and a 1 Gbps NIC for around 300 USD. Otherwise I guess you are looking for a new pc to put in fast cards.

If you had a pc already with two NICs, you could do sophos xg home on it or a pfsense/opnsense. I’m planning on virtualizing a VM on a cheap mini ryzen box that meets that (ace magician makes one for $300).

Another vote for Hetzner Cloud, if you don’t mind it being in Germany, you can get even more memory and other specs on their ARM based ones. It does has pretty cheap backups and has DDoS protection and some basic firewall stuff built in all their VPSes.

I have Fedora on a refurb Surface 3 (not pro). It is okay, but I run into issues with chromium browsers freezing it. Still tweaking power settings, i heard it’s related to that. Might try Nobara since I hadn’t heard of it, probably has better defaults.

Interesting concept, curious if it does decent results. Wonder if it has any biases towards certain things. How is it indexing? Is it going to have searches full of link farms? I do see a trial of it that I guess one could test initially to see how it does. I do see they have a browser as well, but it’s Mac/iOS only.

Not completely, there are still some niche, non-technical communities that are probably never going to switch. I hope at some point they do, but still go once in a while to check. I don’t go daily like I used to, mostly do lemmy daily since the apps are getting so good now.

Probably belongs more in selfhosted, but I started to do my own instance of miniflux. Works decent and is clean interface. Didn’t want to have chance of another company ending a product again.

I personally use Alibre Design Pro and Moi3D. Both are bought outright without subscriptions and seem to have a decent community if small, mostly on their respective forums. I went through the basic PDF tutorial that Alibre has and it gave me enough confidence to build so semi advanced stuff. Moi3d does have a bit more videos and tutorials than Alibre.

I want to use Plasticity3D more, but it lacks easily editable features after they are generated, but it’s decent for iterating or playing with a design. Seems if you need a 3d object without precision, it’s decent and easy workflow.

I just stumbled upon it a few days ago via a lemmy instance. It’s still rough around the edges, but worth looking at.

NixOS on two boxes (starting to deep dive big into flakes to try to automate how the separate devices are configured and apps installed, it’s pretty slick if you ever need to reload the PCs). I have endeavorOS for an AI test box since it was easier to get an arch based distro to work with the complicated install chain of Cuda and Python dependency hell. I have Fedora on an PC my wife uses with Budgie. I have a Debian box for my 3d printer controlling. I may move something back to Solus once they release their new ISO, I miss it. I’d probably end up installing nixpkgs on it so I don’t loose too much functionality/package availability.

I love my X1C, it’s reliable and fast. I can’t comment on P1P, but seems aside from some QC bed issues that I see here and there, probably be worth a shot. Saw it’s down to $600USD today, so on sale. Probably due to 1 year anniversary of the kickstarter. If I didn’t have a prusa, I’d consider getting the P1P as my backup printer.

I run the unstable HaikuOS build in a HyperV VM and keep updating it every week or two. Waiting on compatibility for hardware and just being able to use a web browser without issues. The epiphany port is decent but it’s still lacking. Things seem pretty active and really hope it’s more usable eventually. If done right, it could become the desktop OS alternative the world needs. Seems great design decisions were made early that should help it do well once the thousand paper cuts are reduced a bit.

I have the sovol one, eSun one that does high temps, and the original sunlu one. Sovol had a weird issue where I have to turn it back on a few times until it stays working. The eSun one will likely be my main one since I started to use more exotic filaments that need higher heat.

Also planning on printing a TPU version of a keychain I designed that is an Atari Controller. It’s too fragile for a pocket in normal filament. Wish I had a tool changer, so it’s going to just be all black I think. [https://www.printables.com/model/491788-atari-joystick-key-chain-with-no-key-chain-option](Atari Keychain)

Cat Deterrent model I designed since one cat dive bombs from door edge semi frequently. At some point will probably release the 3d models for it. Designed it in Alibre Design Pro.

I got a refurbished HP Elitebook for under $500 that had 500 gb nvme and 16 gb ram, core i5 gen 8 processor from Woot. Still had part of the original warranty as well as a one year one from the refurb company. Runs great, no dents or wear. Can do Windows 11 if you ever had to. I personally have had good success with HP Pro/Elite/Z lines vs Lenovo in just not having random problems. Main problem is if you let them get too dead battery wise but it could be replaced since it’s easy to open usually. We have hundreds of them in use for years and not much issues. Seen more problems on Lenovos in a business setting even brand new expensive ones.