My Prusa xl printed tpu perfectly first go on its flex preset.

I have had a PLA print holding my bike light working for about three years so I don’t think that’s a problem

I wouldn’t buy Bambu. Too much of a vertical company. I don’t believe they’re upgradable, I don’t believe they’re hackable, I don’t think they’ll work well with random third party filament

I like Prusa. They are upgradable, they are hackable, they work fine on any filament

I’d go for a Prusa printer, they’re highly maintainable and easy to upgrade. Definitely not Bambu - they’re a closed source shitty company

Nozzle change is easy on new Prusa printers, Prusa have a how to on their website

My Prusa XL 5 tool is printing like a champ. So far I have printed a 2 colour PLA print that took the whole print bed and a flexible (TPU) print for my bike

It hasn’t missed a trick

I love Prusa

I also have an ankermake printer which I bought hoping their colour system would happen, but it never did. I’m tempted to replace it with a Prusa mk4s with their working multiple material unit (MMU) which is already in version 3

And it works with an open source slicer

And their printers have a history of being upgradable

Any printer I get in the future will be a Prusa

What were the best settings on that video?

I think Bambu have their own solution and since they don’t want their users using other brand filament they would be nuts to support an open standard

You obviously need to ID the spools and store values for all, the different hub weights aren’t a big issue if the printer knows the length of its filament path, how much filament the spool started with, and how much filament has been consumed it can work out the hub weight

Regularly changing filament fixes the problem of the load cell drifting, by allowing it to zero occasionally

You could warn on low filament, or not enough for this print, but load cells aren’t accurate enough to be certain about the last few metres, along with errors from cosmetic trimmed before feeding, or some is damaged and cut off, so I would still use the normal no filament sensors for stopping

Not saying it’s worth it compared to a software solution in the slicer

My different printer does that when it takes a break from printing to disconnect any stringy plastic, for example when it moves to check the print adhered correctly. Mine behaves better when I cancel. I can prevent that behaviour by turning off “AI check file”

Sad isn’t it

Minecraft has private servers (at least on Minecraft java) as well as their own server platform “Realms”, also every client is also a server. Though the authentication system is a Microsoft account so that’s likely to still be online well into the future

I don’t know how you could do that without staying exclusively on open source

I’m old enough that the games I’m nostalgic for are on floppy discs on my shelf, but now the games I play are downloaded and rely on whatever company keeping a server up to authenticate me

Who knows what Microsoft will do with Minecraft in 30 years

Who knows what Steam will do with the licences it’s sold me

A stuck pedal turns the steering towards the barrier? I think the driver had a stroke or heart attack and stopped steering

At 3.18pm on 10 May 2018, Stefan Meier lost control of his Model S on the A2 highway near the Monte Ceneri tunnel. Travelling at about 100kmh (62mph), he ploughed through several warning markers and traffic signs before crashing into a slanted guardrail. “The collision with the guardrail launches the vehicle into the air, where it flips several times before landing,” investigators would write later.

The driver crashed, it doesn’t sound like it was in self driving mode.

They are more different than any of the Englishes are from each other

My pixel set to Australian English works fine in metric. I presume you chose British English where they use miles rather than kilometres, of course that works for me as I also want Australian spellings

The most recent update to Libre Office reset my UI language to one I don’t know well enough to recognise. I uninstalled and reinstalled it.

Since we’re using Unicode we sort by first on left to right or last letter on right to left languages by their code point

Indeed, but cheaper than enough batteries to cover those times

In the off grid home scale one I’d size and set the generator to run for several hours in a row to fully charge the battery on days when the battery was at a sufficiently low charge entering the night, at least that’s what my current modelling suggests. Diesel gensets work best when running fully loaded for at least long enough to warm up

I guess at grid scale you find the sweet spot where most years the gas power station and batteries are balanced to provide cheapest power averaged over the year