capably8341

Sounds like you've done your research.

A friend of mine has a Qidi X-Max 3, so I got to play around with it quite a bit. It is a beast! And apparently their support is top notch. I'm definitely going to look at Qidi next time I'm in the market.

All that said, the Q1 is not the same class of printer as the X-Max 3. It seems like it makes some compromises to hit the price it does. If you are looking for amazing build quality or extremely large prints, you probably want to save up for something like their Plus4. But if you don't care about those things, or don't want to spend more, the Q1 seems like a great choice.

As far as the polydrier goes, it seems good, but expensive. I've had a good experience just using my printer's heatbed to dry filament and using vacuum bags with redried dessicants. The bags are like $1-2 each, so even if 1/4 of them are leaky, it's still way cheaper than dry boxes. And I just collect the dessicants from my new filament spools and redry them in the microwave.

I haven't printed nylon, but I know you can get the cereal box dryboxes for like $7 each. If you plan to have tons of rolls of nylon, then it may be worth getting a full drying system, but for only a few rolls, I'd stick to cereal boxes.

If I were in your situation, I'd cheap out on the storage and put that extra ~$100 towards a Plus4 or some cool filament.

Glad to hear you're able to keep using it! No reason to get rid of good hardware. I hope other people do the same.

I’d prefer that lesson to be “more careful” and not “these people are snobs”

This sums it up perfectly! Don't make consumer-friendly synonymous with "snobs."

That's a very fair point. I also think the massive amount of outrage shows that many people didn't know the full extent of what they were signing up for. So I think is varies from person to person.

I wish I knew this months ago! This knowledge needs to be spread around more.

Also, if your phone doesn't show up on the deck, make sure to enable "show all devices"

I've been reading the other comments, and while people are encouraging, their comments seem a bit too "you HAVE to learn CAD." You definitely don't NEED to know CAD. I made basic parts and modifications in the slicer for nearly a year after I started printing, and it worked really well. However, if you are considering learning a full CAD program, I have two pieces of advice.

First pertains to if you are working with functional parts. Then you are talking about a parametric CAD program (fusion, onshape, FreeCAD, etc.). In this case, I think it's worth learning for you, and it's not as hard as it seems. You say you have SketchUp experience, so I'm assuming you have decent spatial reasoning. I know someone with no tech literacy nor programming experience who learned a CAD program very well in less than a month of following tutorials in her free time. Just give it a try, and it's a skill you'll be happy to have.

If you are working with cosmetic parts like miniatures and helmets, then you might need to use something like Blender. Admittedly, that can be even more challenging than the other CAD programs I mentioned. However, if you spend a few hours learning some basics from YouTube, you should be able to do fundemental things like fixing holes.

Hope this helps. Good luck with your printing endeavors!

Interesting idea. How easy is it to start and LLC?

I love virtual cards. I use privacy.com for all my online stuff. Not a solution for this purpose unfortunately.

As for your divide-it-up approach, that's an interesting thought. I guess I'm a little concerned about signing up for several cards with several companies and several privacy policies. Feels a little weird to me, but I do see the merit in not having all your eggs in one basket.

As far as the Apple Card and Goldman Sachs is concerned, I'm still trying to figure out which details are given to whom. Its hard to find info about it. I wouldn't be surprised if you're right and it's the same as any other card from Goldman Sachs.

You can have a primary network and guest network. As far as I can tell, you can't have more than that.

You can set DNS manually.

Here is a link to a pretty comprehensive user guide that explains all the settings. Maybe I missed something about the SSIDs. https://static.inseego.com/us/download/mifixpro-userguide-tmobile.pdf

I recently got their hotspot and its been good. I got the MIFI X PRO 5G and have no complaints. I can't speak to the privacy of it, but it uses a T-Mobile sim card. Do you have any questions in particular?

I try to buy things on GOG when I can just for the sake of diversifying my dependence on one company.

There are plenty of guides to setting up Heroic Launcher on the Deck. Once its set up, it's easy to install games.

I've found GOG games to run perfectly fine, and cloud saves work perfectly.

Lastly, I saw some other people saying GOG doesn't have the latest version of this game specifically, so definitely check that before buying.

Admittedly, some of the games I'm about to mention take time to get good enough at to turn your brain off, but here's some of my favorites for listening to audiobooks.

Bloons TD6

Any roguelite - currently I'm loving balatro and spelunky 2

Backpack battles

Tetris Effect

Mario sports games

Mini Metro

Kingdom

In general, I find it helpful to tell yourself that it's totally okay to "lose." When you are listening to an audiobook, you should be spending most of your attention on that. You don't need to take the game seriously.