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Yeah, that wasn’t exactly the best conclusion to a story arc, but I thought the journey up to that point was pretty interesting. I wouldn’t put the show anywhere near the same level as DS9 or TNG but it isn’t a total write-off.

This is all subjective but S03 is when I started liking the show. I didn’t care for the mirrorverse or weird Klingon plot lines.

It’s “Trek” in the same way that (hopefully this reference isn’t too obscure) Stargate Universe was “Stargate.” The show wasn’t bad, especially post-Klingons, but it didn’t feel similar to any of the other series to me. I did enjoy the new time era, but hated all the sappy ‘motivational speeches’ and the way they were filmed that seemed to be a cornerstone of every episode.

Good luck finding one. I put zero faith in any electronic reviews because it’s so commonly gamed that there’s no way to know whether you’re being fed bullshit or not and the likelyhood of BS increases when it’s someone who reviews these devices professionally. Even recommendations you get here could be fake or misinformed for all you or anyone else knows.

As opposed to the “totally competent, fair, and capable voluntary moderators of reddit?” Have you ever spent any time over there? Plenty of people get banned from subs simply for commenting in other subs that a mod might not like.

The first paragraph of the OP states this.

Perhaps you’re an AI who only hallucinated a circuit design.

It was pretty obvious because the calibration lines it lays down at the beginning of the print weren’t adhered to the bed, which told me that it didn’t probe the bed correctly to establish the correct height and was printing with too large of an offset.

The lesson that all consumer electronics have a limited shelf life? That’s pretty well known.

Ban evasion. I had literally this same exact situation happen and lost my 10 year old account. I talked about piracy in /r/Movies and got banned then sitewide permabanned for accidently commenting there from a different account.

But you’re still relying on companies to produce these parts for you and they’ll only do it so long as the market is big enough to make it worth it for them.

Open source is definitely preferable, but at this point and time, their proprietary parts aren’t an issue at all as they’re cheap and readily available and with the popularity of these printers, I don’t see it being an issue for quite a long time. By then, I may have moved onto a new printer anyway since the market is constantly progressing.

Do it. I was in your shoes about a year ago and finally pulled the trigger on the X1C and haven’t regretted it once. My previous printer was like the ship of Thesius with upgrades and still failed all the time. I’ve got probably 700-800 hours on the X1C and have only had maybe half a dozen prints fail and only one repair needed which was covered under warranty. The only maintenance needed has been greasing the screws, which it kindly informs me to do when needed.

I got one with my X1C.

So pretty much like every other company in existence? I don’t think there is any danger of BambuLabs disappearing anytime soon and their parts are dirt cheap.

Something else to think about is future expandability. I’m assuming you’ll start with an HDD or two, but what about after that? You’ll either need to purge out your library or have a bunch of external drives connected. The Optiplex is a great thin client but it only has 1 or 2 SATA ports and one will likely always be used for your OS drive (SSD) which leaves only one internal slot for an HDD.

Also just some random advice, but if you want cheap drives, keep an eye out for WD Element or WD EasyStore external drives to go on sale. These are extremely easy to remove from their case and be used as an internal drive. Something else to check out would be serverpartdeals.com if you don’t mind trying some used or refurbished enterprise drives. I bought my last 14TB drive from them for something like $100 and haven’t had any issues. This is generally worth the risk since you can just download your media over again if the drive happens to crap out on you.

If they’re going to be sharing with friends, they’ll need something that can handle transcoding in order to eliminate all the complaints about “the movie isn’t working!” due to varying codecs and client compatibility. Any 7th or 8th gen or newer Intel chip (QuickSync) should work or something with a GPU.

They’re trying to run HBO into the ground like they did with the Discovery network. Seems like they’re right on track.

I just had this happen too and it was caused by a bad z-offset reading. The nozzle hooked one of the parts on the bed that came loose and drug it around while forming the blob.

I just had this happen on my X1C for the same reason and was able to get it off after heating up the hotend for a minute and wiggling it loose. Zero residual damage.

They have all the parts available on their site.