EmilieEvans

I hope that one day the constant bullying of Stratasys backfires.

Overall the patent system is in dire need of improvement:

• protection for real invention that isn't trivial: yes
• troll patents and trivial: no

Right now we are at a point where the trivial patents are so dominant that I believe the patent system does more harm than good. Stopping progress/innovation instead of encouraging it.

So why improve if you can just sue your competition out of the US market?

Stratasys: probably doesn't feel BambuLab at all at the moment

Ultimaker: there is some pressure. Dozens of companies are using BambuLab but they still have a customer group that isn't yet addressed by BambuLab

MakerBot: Hell yes. Why would anybody buy a MakerBot right now? Their entry-level printer is at the same price point as a BambuLab X1C and gets obliterated by BambuLab's performance. I also see how education facilities (schools, universities) are choosing BambuLab offerings.

You should be fine. It is about temperature and time. Don't keep the nozzle heated up when it isn't used. Don't dry it frequently (keep it in a dry environment) and use low temperatures.

190° is the low end of printing temperatures. SainSmart should probably be okay when printed below 210°C

With "special" PVA like FormFutura Helios you go up to 250°C: https://formfutura.com/product/helios-support/

Regardless BVOH should be the better choice at higher cost.

PVA would come out in big bubbles instead of thin lines.

Dry the PVA before use and keep it dry.

PVA easily crystalizes and if this happens the $30 filament spool is trash. Also, make sure to drop the temperature by more than 5°C for the parked toolhead. Otherwise (you guessed it) it will crystalize and cause a clogged nozzle.

<Rough time estimate is 5-30 min at PLA temperature with no flow but this number depends on the exact PVA filament variant.

Import the parts into the CAD software (e.g. Fusion360) and assemble them.

We want a true black-dark mode for OLED. This missing feature is holding me back from going 100% Firefox on mobile (I am only using it for horrible websites that are asking fo the ublock origin treatment.

2022 request for this feature: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/provide-a-black-dark-mode-in-firefox-mobile/idi-p/2578/page/4#comments

At this point, it is not a technical issue but also a trust issue:

They started with people overclocking their CPUs and that is the cause.

They moved on to the mainboard vendors are the bad guy.

Now they are at we screwed up but the microcode update will fix everything and yes we had oxidation issues we told nobody about and no we won't recall those units we know are faulty (oxidation issue).

only the high end i7/i9 CPUs were seeing significant failures being reported

I think Intel now says it is everything with 65W+ TDP.

Intel N100 mini PC*.

*= those are on the same process node as the problematic i7/i9 13th and 14th gen CPU. With Intel this quiet on the true cause/issue they might as well also be considered faulty.

The biggest issue is battery size: If the heatbed cools down the print fails. The heating is the part that takes the most power so the battery has to be large enough to support the entire remaining print duration or power outage.

On Windows: I hate it too.

Takes up more space without any benefit. this version looks "modern" but from a usability standpoint, it is worse.

Hope Prusa goes in and makes the toolbar (Menu, Platter, Print Settings, filament, Printers, physical printer) small/less height and gives the buttons something to make them look like a button. Right now it is just text on a grey background. Big steps in the wrong direction in my opinion as it stands but easy to fix.

The addition of the physical printer page/tab is nice. Now I can view the Duet web interface directly in prusaslicer. While the printer are 99% upload and forget from time to time I need to view the control panel to check or adjust a thing or two.

MCUs can run Linux.

I don't use Espriff products so no idea if it is available for the ESP32.

A lot of people (probably) would have chipped in and be happy with a half-backed first-generation product. People loved the Ender 3 and even accepted the Anet A8 which would catch fire if not modified because it was all they could afford/buy.

Look no further than Micronics sift bin. It was jankey but it was what it took to hit this price point and people accepted it.

All of the buzz was about SLS being finally headed toward enthusiasts and small businesses. Adoption/market size getting bigger and suddenly good SLS is affordable in the near future. All of this was killed with this acquisition as FormLabs is the wrong company for this trajectory. Even the fact that FormLabs is asking $4k for the * privilege * to use third-party materials is a strong indicator.

Do we expect anytime soon that FormLabs will beat what is already out there? Sinterit Lisa: $10k: https://sinterit.com/3dprinters/lisa/

My money is on that the next/first budget SLS will be made and engineered in China. I don't know who will be next but it likely won't be another startup in the west.

The whole ecosystem here in the West doesn't favour starting up. It's not easy to do it in China either, but the whole supply chain is there (as such also the knowledge/support) and the business environment makes it more likely for it to happen there.

They are one of them. June 2024: Mozilla has acquired Anonym, [...]. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla [...] deliver effective advertising solutions.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/