Finally set up my proxmox server, been procrastinating for a year. Thought on a whim, “I’m only using 2 of my 4 slots, and I could benefit from a bit more RAM. It’s DDR4, can’t be that expensive”.

Yeah… It was that expensive. More expensive than when I bought the stuff originally when this computer was new.

+1 for bluefin. I’m actually running that on my own laptop. Fw13, it’s been rock solid, which is exactly what I wanted.

Legitimately. Fedora Bluefin here. Giving the atomic thing a try 😁

Wow, are you me? Haha also circuit stuff, woodworking when I was a kid, piano I never play, just got my first sewing machine a few months ago.

Add in fpv drones, ham radio, meshtastic, homelab, enthusiast grade flashlights, longboarding, snowboarding, wake surfing, backpacking, flipperzero, LINUX! Lol you can run out of time and money pretty quickly.

But, do all these things just a little, and it’s good.

Do you really never ever touch your stuff anymore? Or just nowhere near as much as you did?

Because for me, I still sometimes, rarely, but sometimes, utilize the skills I gained. I don’t go hard on any single one of those things anymore, but I’m glad that I did, or at least I tell myself I am. Now when I go backpacking, I know I have the best flashlight for the job. When I play with meshtastic, my ham radio skills tell me my antenna placement is optimal. When we were sending a care package to a sick friend, we thought of a funny inside joke to reference, so I dusted off the 3D printer and printed up a couple trinkets that were perfectly matched to the joke. When I decided to set up my homelab, my previous love of Linux made it easier to set up proxmox. When I wanted to use my camp chair at the beach, I was able to sew a sheet to stretch between the feet to support me on the sand.

It’s up to you what you wanna do. But I don’t view my hobby jumping as a bad thing. So long as I keep the spending more or less in check, who cares? I’m having fun, learning skills, and those skills can come in handy.

Other people are sometimes jealous of my ability to learn and enjoy so many things. I’m able to help them when they get started later, because I have an approximate knowledge of many things 😂

I say go for it 😁

Lots of comments here, plenty of information for you. I’ll add to the pile that I started playing with my buddies stock ender 3, fought it often, lots of tweaking and configuring.

Then I got my own ender 3v2, and fought it less, but still needs tinkering. Usually though I can fire it up and print small stuff without touching it. I print infrequently these days, so the procedure usually involves wiping the dust off the bed first. But it works well enough for my needs.

I tend to get into hobbies for awhile and then back off, so I’m glad I didn’t spend more. And really, while $300 is a lot of money in many ways, in some ways it’s not so much. I’m glad I have a printer, it is occasionally highly useful. But I’m glad I don’t have a $600-1000 printer. Personally 🤷‍♂️ but that’s just me.

I just changed from glass to PEI, night and day difference

Well… Start INstalling it 😁

No worries thanks for the information!

That’s good to know thanks!

Good to know, I’ll have to play with it.

Ah that makes sense haha

Hmmm, that doesn’t sound very encouraging haha. Well I’m gonna try PEI anyway, see if I can keep it flat enough.

That’s encouraging!

I thought too cold caused warping, does too warm cause it as well?

Now I know this to be true

I put the whole apparatus in the fridge for a few hours, hoping it would just pop off.

The edges came up clean, but the very middle was very unhappy. I had some lifting on the corners so I think there was a draft and the plate wasn’t warming equally. Hot spot in the middle trying to keep up maybe? IDK.

This is a pretty deep hole, I don’t think tape will cut it.

But I’ve been printing little things on the front portion 🤷‍♂️

I do this too, normally it works a treat.

Somehow I missed all the warning signs and discussion on the subject. I’ll never forget.

Can’t be much worse than a big hunk of glass?