Propane for us. Natural gas is just a bit too far away to get a connection.

That doesn’t seem like the union is unioning properly at all here.

Is there something going on that this article isn’t surfacing, or did UPS just buy the union bosses?

Just found the community.

Looks like it’s pretty slow.

Similar age, but Canadian. Grew up in the church, but took a tour through some evangelical circles in university. Really forced me to learn the faith.

Welcome brother.

Here’s hoping we can round up some more folks, and get some communication going. We seem to be painfully underrepresented on this platform.

Thanks for the suggesting.

She likes Roblox, but I haven’t check out the build tools at all.

And yeah…the monetization is…troubling.

Well, Reddit isn’t in my good books right now, but I hope they fight this fight hard, and I hope they win. Good Luck Reddit

You’re not alone on TotK. I’m still working on it too. Been taking my time to enjoy it, and the number of hours of gaming time isn’t what it once was.

Thanks so much for the reply. Yeah - learning together is definitely going to be part of the fun.

I’m not a professional coder, just some minor scripting for work and some very very old hobby coding.

Thanks so much for the thoughtful reply. I’ll have a chat with her about an IF project.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll do some reading on it. Never worked with Lua before. Maybe Dad gets to learn too!

Thanks so much for the thoughtful reply. I’ll do some reading on those.

QBasic - what a blast from the past! I also started on basic. My favorite was a “snake” game I had made.

That’s pretty cool. Definitely going to dig into that. I didn’t realize how well developed it was.

Thanks - I’ll check out Turtle. It’s come up in some of my reading.

a supply of chemical ice packs could work as a short term/emergency response. Use them to survive short term (hours/days) while you leave the area / get the power restored / AC fixed / or the heat breaks?

They have a shelf life, but it’s 1-2 years, so you would have to stay on top of expiration.

If your willing to home brew a solution, check out the esphome project. It’s very easy to implement and runs on very inexpensive esp32 boards.

I’ve got something similar, but less ambitious running at my place (temp only). It’s been solid for about 6 months now.

I haven’t had the heart to delete it yet, but I’m also pretty much done with Reddit.

I checked it out on desktop today. Top 8 hits in 4 of my favorite subs were busted bot reposts. It was a short visit.

Love the narrator in Bastion. One of my all time favorite soundtracks too!

We do something a bit different. Rather than cash, we get a small toy and wrap it up. (Still in the $2-$5 range).

Still slip it under the pillow.

It’s fun to watch them unwrap it. 3 kids deep, and no one has asked why our tooth fairy does it different.

My personal experience is with Prusa, so I’m sure that will color my answers.

Knowing what I know now, if I had to start again the things I wouldn’t compromise on would be:

1. Auto Mesh leveling
2. Magnetic/Removal Print Bed
3. Quality support

For me, having those changes the hobby from “making the printer go” to “my printer enables me to make things” by ensuring the print process is convenient and reliable.

A WiFi / octoprint is also a nice to have that changes the experience

The prusa mini+ checks the boxes, but if you’re leaning in another direction, hopefully the extra commentary helps.

2nd for the Prusa Printers if you’re doing mostly functional parts. They’re just reliable workhorses.

What are you looking to do with your printer?

I think primary use case really should drive the decision.

The “Best bang-for-the-buck” really changes if you want to do functional parts vs. mini’s for example.

I’ve run FDM printers for years, and I love them for functional parts (which is most of my prints). My prints are plenty strong, and weather resistant (as needed).

That said… I’ve got a buddy who’s just starting and went resin because he’s all about mini’s. It doesn’t matter how I tune, my poor FDM printer just won’t keep pace for those crazy fine details.