Howdy! Does anyone know of any 3d printers that have multi-filament/color support and larger print volume (300mmx300mm or greater) in approx the $1,000 range?

My ideal printer is the creality k1 max, but with the ability of multicolor prints. Bambu labs has an excellent offering in this range, but the print volume is too small for my needs. (It would also need all the bells-and whistles expected with a printer in this range, i.e auto leveling, silent drivers, etc)

Personally, I feel this is a huge gap in the market right now, but maybe I just have not found the correct brand.

Update on this: I removed all the styrofoam and folded the seats down to finally poke around more. On my model, there are two holes cut in the body/chassis that can fit even my thick steel cable. Something can be pretty easily locked or even just tied down since it is not easily accessible. Should at least slow down a would-be burglar.

"metal attachment rings" definitely sound like a good choice! Now I will just need to find those. I do already have a cargo net and will be incorporating the "old blanket" technique. I have a secure case, so any good, hard point to lock a cable to is great.

I will also be looking into the dragon solution. Though there are no wise men or wizards with quests in my area. Also I think an effective dragon may just want to claim the treasure for themselves (?)

Yeah, this typically happens while the car is still idling a bit high after starting.

Great question! I heard the brakes were rather stiff in this car and considered this issue to be an annoyance. Though it has gotten worse, so definitely time to take it in, just wanted reassurance since I am unsure if anything is covered via warranty (I bought it used from a third-party dealer).

Ah, yeah, that is a good suggestion. The car has barely over 10k miles, so I was pretty eager to jump to the recall idea.

For context, I discovered the recall from a related post here SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC RECALL? : r/CX50 (reddit.com) 

I attended SJSU for Aviation - Professional Flight, I graduated in 2021. The only thing it left me with was a sense that I need to save anyone I can from that program.

Perhaps this is just my attitude and personal feelings/experience with academia, but I left the program with essentially nothing. All flight training had to be done on my personal time as a separate cost. For 90% of my major courses, I came in already knowing the material (since you literally need to in order to have your licenses/ratings). This made classes feel incredibly boring and like a waste of money. I worked closely with my advisor to ensure I received the correct flight training, but they changed the rules near my graduation and tried to invalidate my licenses as counting as course credits. I was even advised to try Purdue if I wanted my flight training to count as school credit. The associate dean of engineering had to intervene so they would honor my flight training as credits.

I ended up graduating and getting my commercial-instrument ratings. The only value I got out of the education was the accident reviews we did at the start of class with Dan Neal, those were insightful and humbling.

I would heavily advise against this program. If I could redo it, I would go into a different degree that I find interesting and just get my flight training at my own leisure. This also gives you a lot of flexibility if you ever decide to change up career paths or anything happens to the aviation industry again.

Sadly this is for every role. I originally queued tank and healer, but switched to "all" to try to improve queue times. To no avail.

Yeah, it displayed queue times < 3 minutes for every role. We were queued as "all". The actual queue times are much different.

I had this happen as well, I believe. I did not get penalized for a leave afaik, but it said a game was found, the restarted the queue.

I am also experiencing this with two different packages from two different senders, sent on different dates. One arrived a day late, the other is currently 3 days late (not arrived yet). Their last scan was the Kansas City distribution center, before one magically appeared on my doorstep without any further updates.

Niiice, yeah that is really really good. 7k is practically new. Very epic.

Rpi 4 model B 8gb is $75 on adafruit and is readily available now.

An Intel i3 is like $100 for an older model. Microcenter's cheapest Intel CPU is an i3-14100 at $139. But it is likely you would need a full new build for a CPU swap + ram for that specific generation. Easily $300 for an extreme budget build.

Old discussion, yes an i3 dedicated build will outperform a raspberry pi esp when considering hosting multiple or large servers, but for self-hosting a single server, an rpi is a fair price imo.

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Yeah, faur. The performance is not comparable, but an rpi 4 8gb can for sure handle a 10 person server, so may be an economic/easy solution.

Single core performance is best for Minecraft. I use an Intel i5-11600K. This can host several servers at a time with about 5 members active and no performance issues. Though the newer Intel i3 have very good single core performance as well (get a last gen model on sale at microcenter or something for a really good deal), but you will need a new mobo and probably ram... So maybe just get a raspberry pi if you would like to invest money into it.

Yeah, that should mostly be fine I think. It depends though if all 10 will be online/active at once. I will host servers with about 10-20 members with 4gb RAM and not consuming too much CPU, but that is because the server load maxes out at about 5 users online at a time. Minecraft is pretty much single threaded (unless you run a folia server), so good single core performance is good. Perhaps consider running a Folia server if your CPU is under performing, but beware of plugin compatibility issues.

I would love a followup regarding performance if you do get all ten exploring at once!

I would definitely try. Could maybe get a few hundred off. Worst case scenario they say no.

You will have much more luck haggling for last year's model if you can find any still on the lot.

Just don't let their tricks work on you. The dealer I bought from tried to mark up the price by $6k their listing price so I just told them to call me back when they change their mind.

I have a 2023 meridian. I really like the turbo, but I find the power excessive. Personally I quite like that and find it fun and worth the money, but for regular commuting I would say it's absolutely not necessary. At elevation it would be nice, and certainly a consideration if you will be towing.

Also my advice: buy a used meridian! I got one with 9k miles for around $34k, pretty good deal imo. The meridian lacks some extra features, but it seems it did not sell well, so many were sold with 0% financing and the used ones are also comparably cheap.

Yeah, I agree, you don't get it and neither did consumers! It sold really poorly (as others have pointed out) for all the reasons you mentioned. They had to move them with 0% financing and now they are quite under-valued used.

So today the benefit is that you can get a really good deal on a 2023 meridian since not enough people wanted them. I got mine with 9k miles for about $34k, pretty good deal for the features it offers imo.

No, but they are offering good financing on the cx-5 rn.

I bought my meridian used with 9k miles and $8k under MSRP, super worth it to me.