For the love of God, or whatever, people!

STOP recommending that people use food preparation things to heat up material you have no clue about how safe they are. It’s likely you are recommending people to poison themselves!!

Great advice! Use two food preparation appliances to heat a material you have no clue about what it offgases in addition to water.

Enjoy your food.

I do something similar. 1st- Never use something that will be used for food again. There are 15€ used microwaves listed in my local secondhand app, but I live in a small apartment, and I don’t have the spare space.

2nd. - I don’t do this stuff in the kitchen.

I have a small induction plate, which can actually be set to temperature or power level, and wich is surprisingly accurate! I spent a morning doing testing, and the damn thing would be within 5°C everytime.

I use an enameled pan, which has been retired from food use, and do this in the balcony. I shake it around every so often, with the temp set at 110°C.

It really irks me how a bunch of Youtubers ignore basic safety measures, like using your oven, microwave etc to dry silica, filament, anneal parts etc. We normally have no clue as to the modifiers, additives, etc, or even the actual effects of fumes of the base plastics (maybe there is research, but I haven’t seen anybody looking for it)

I’m working on a cheapo enclosure, and already have designed and printed a cheap and cheerful filter, to use EVERY time I print, no matter what the filament. If I don’t have hard data about the toxicity of a material heated in my breathing space, I’m going to treat it as toxic.

Safe by default.

Many phones need a charging port clean-up every so often

I’ve been using tablets since the first generation (Galaxy tab), and I must say that it kind of veered to that side after a while, since getting a convertible laptop. A few years back I got a Huawei tablet with a pen and keyboard, that had impressive battery, and it took the place of my convertible. While I’m a Linux-Android-occassional Windows guy, I now use an ipad (As much as I hate to admit, in the tablet space they are vastly superior), with keyboard and pen, for most of my away needs, and for general around the house stuff. I do a lot of graphic design and photo stuff, and thanks to Affinity’s suite, I can actually do real work on the thing.

Have you taken a look at Sovol? Their SV08 is essentially a Boron. As for multi color, Bondtech is releasing their INDX tool changer later this year, wich in my opinion is far superior to an MMU. I don’t know if it can be installed on the SV08, but if it is, it would be my choice.

Don’t wearables cause autism?

Mine runs on me. It especially likes me waking.

This was explained to me years ago. They don’t give a fuck about what you said. They want you to lie, in case they need to fuck you up. If for some reason they want to screw you, they’ll look for these uids, and if you hadn’t declared, they’ll slap perjury charges on you.

I don’t know if that is still the case, but many electronic stuff in the US had warnings, with pictures, like “don’t put it in the bath”, and the like .

People are dumb, and you should take that into account.

Remeber, If it’s “free”, you are the product.

Not just a wig, a cheapo Aliexpress wig. I had an employee who bought a quality hairpiece, and it was uncanny. He paid through the nose for it, but it was worth it for him, as he was quite bald in his 20’s.

1st. You dou you. 2nd. Kudos for the design and ingenuity.

Now the buts:

I personally don’t agree with the concept of “I’m going to print this just to prove I can”, especially if it’s subpar.

I have so much h to print, for me and for others, that I see this as a waste of time an filament.

My own personal point of view.

They banned linux packages?

Prostitution works for me

I like Sovol, I like what they do, and how they do it, but this article makes it sound like Sovol did something groundbreaking.

Eddy? 15€, Rápido UHF (for example, much higher flow hotends out there ) around 70€. Converting an Ender 5 plus (easily found used in the sub 200€ range ) to corexy (Mercury one) around 230€.

So yes, the max is nice, but I’m modifying my 5 plus to be in that category of printer for around 300€, or if I had to buy a used E5+ under 500.

The regular SV08 IS groundbreaking. They essentially made a Voron for half the price.

I can empathize with (part) of your reservations. Others, as you pointed out may be a tad paranoid, and others are simply unfounded, and disregard advancements in general.

Nowhere did I say magic. I said I like the enhanced properties. It’s completely logical to expect enhancements. Progress is littered with unfortunate developments. It’s a price we pay for advancements, but if you assume that by default, advancements are bad, we might as well all just stop breathing and die.

I could spend the next few months listing initial advances or improvements thereof, that are unquestionably good. PLA is such an example, as are other bioplastics, vaccines, seat belts and air bags, air source heat pumps, most renewable energy generation (or rather extraction) methods, BPA free, easily recyclable plastics, like PET, long distance communications both voice and data, accessible long distance travel, fucking tools and fire! And so many more advancements.

Of course there are things like lead in gas, or the systematic attack to efficient mass transport in the US, leaded paint, use of asbestos, hydrocarbon fuels, massively toxic pesticides, PFOAS, Ford Pintos and the corporate decisions behind them, etc.

But the balance I think is positive, and contrary to what many scream, we humans tend to try to redress the harms we cause.

Assertions like “We live in primitive times where biology is only in a precursor stage of discovery and poorly understood.” when we can literally fucking manipulate DNA, is just plain ignorant.

You seem to imply that all advancements are dangerous, or evil. Not so. It may be two steps forward, one back, but we go forward.

BTW, I hope you are making that popcorn from corn you planted from heirloom seeds, and extra virgin olive oil, in a solar oven, else you are probably going to be eating GMO, cooked in fucked-up fats, while breathing fumes from burned hydrocarbons, or being subjected to one of many forms of radiation, etc.

He didn’t invent EVs, nor batteries, nor rockets, not even vertically landing rockets, but perfected and especially turned them onto massive success. Too bad he went full idiot.

I hate the guy’s guts as much as anybody else, but he has kickstarted a space race, and an EV market. Credit where it’s due.

And yeah I know, rich daddy, no inventions, all evolutionary, etc. But here we are.

Pouring water with plastic sanding dust may essentually be a “feel-good” gesture. Coffee filters are not fine enough to catch microplastics. Think about it, it lets pass enough coffee particles trough that you have some sediment in your cup.

Also, where is that filter being discarded? Into a “microplastic recycling facility” ?