lpinfinity

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[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 months ago

The price of a capable printer has come down quite a bit over the last few years. I haven't got any experience with Elegoo printers myself, but I'd expect it to at least work well enough at first. Longevity could be questionable though.

Bamboo printers have proven to be very capable, easy to use, and reliable, but they are locked down quite a bit. If you want a printer you can tinker with, Bamboo is not the way to go.

Depending on your budget, a Prusa would be the best of both worlds, excellent print quality, reliability, and they're about as open as modern consumer printer get. If you go this route, I would recommend against the Prusa Mini. I'm sure it's a good printer, but it's quite outdated now. If you can afford it, I've heard the Core One is a great printer, plus you'll be able to add a Bondtech INDX system later for multimaterial.

The most open option (though the one with the most commitment) would be to build a kit printer like a Voron or a RatRig (Prusa also offers their printers as kits, which I would recommend if you go that route). Building a printer allows you to truly understand the machine, plus, I find it to be a lot of fun.

Prusa kits will come with everything you need to build a printer (except for some tools, I would assume).

Voron kits are all unofficial, but most who build Vorons use a kit. The LDO kits are the best, but I've also built from a Formbot kit and it was fine. Voron kits typically won't come with the printed parts, though some do. The parts need to be printed with either ABS or ASA, so not all printer will work.

I haven't got any experience with RatRig printers, but I think the kits are official, so I would expect them to be good quality. Not sure if they come with printed parts or not.

Sorry for the wall of text TLDR: Elegoo: Cheap, open-ish, questionable reliability BAMBOO: Affordable, very closed, reliable Prusa: Expensive, open, reliable Voron: Expensive, very open, large commitment RatRig: same as Voron, with a little less commitment

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 2 points 5 months ago

Dbrand already announced a companion cube shell for the steam machine https://dbrand.com/shop/limited-edition/companion-cube

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 12 points 5 months ago

And how fast you put it there

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 4 points 6 months ago

I'd also note that resin printing is a huge pita compared to FDM. Resin has quite a few post-processing steps, plus it requires much more ventilation and handling equipment.

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pls don't make me go back

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 13 points 6 months ago

Then there's the og Xbox and it's clock capacitor. Nothing like grabbing your console out of storage to find out it blew a cap and dissolved some of the traces on the PCB.

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 5 points 7 months ago

+1 for Unifi Protect. Their hardware may be a bit pricey, but it doesn't require any cloud/Internet connection and the app/interface is excellent.

I haven't tried the 3rd party cam support, but I don't think the price for the cameras is too outlandish for what they are and how well they're built.

Iirc the Unifi Protect software can be self-hosted now too.

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I've built a 0.2 and a 2.4 from kits and they're great printers with loads of mods available, but I find them had to recommend unless you have the ability to print your own parts. You can buy a kit that comes with the printed parts or get them through the print it forward program, but if you break any of the parts during the build, it can be challenging to source a replacement. If you do build one and don't have access to another printer, I would recommend printing replacements for the most critical components once you get it running (especially the hot end parts). Otherwise, they're super fun projects and I can't recommend them enough.

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Iirc, Amtrak does give the option to take your automobile on the train with you

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 11 points 8 months ago (9 children)

I agree to some extent. Elden Ring had little reason not to support ultrawide resolutions, but games that are very ui heavy, like the persona series, would require a significant amount of work to scale to the less common ratios. Ultimately, those of us who run oddball aspect ratios (anything but 16:9 these days) make up very little of the market share, so I get why some don't support them.

[–] lpinfinity@retrolemmy.com 6 points 9 months ago (9 children)

They say in the post they use Debian. The game is running under proton/wine and reports the is as windows.

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