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I ended up moving from kbin.social to fedia.io which runs mbin and has a team, not just one person. (kbin.social kept breaking all the time for me.)

I have a Prusa MINI and used Prusa i3 machines where I used to work. They are pretty solid, and I do like their open source ideals quite a bit. But I needed/wanted a larger print area for a price under $1,000 USD and the Bambu fit the bill.

I mostly print PLA so the lid is propped open and the door is ajar… Once winter comes to the midwest and my basement is freezing cold I may have to adjust things a bit. I added a Prusa MINI in January 2022 and could not print properly until I added an enclosure.

I’ve had one for about a month, and I’ve been printing nearly non-stop with it. If you just want a printer that works out of the box, prints fast, and prints really nice… It’s a great machine. I’ve owned and operated a lot of printers (at work, at home, at school, at a makerspace) over the last 12 years, and I’m not a fan of the cloud or proprietary hardware but, damn… this thing prints really, really nice… and fast.

I’ve been blogging since 1997 and prefer to write things on my own site, but yeah, the sort of “rule” on Reddit was to not link to your own blog. I disabled Google Analytics this year, and it should also be free of any ads, so I feel okay about linking to my own (long) posts about stuff, complete with plenty of photos and the occasional video, but I’m still not sure if that is frowned upon as “self promotion” even on the Fediverse…

I use hashtags on my posts to help other discover them, but also to group my posts by subject. I probably follow 30 different hashtags on Mastodon to help me find interesting posts.

“The Internet is a privacy nightmare” (Fixed it.)

I dropped one into functionalprint: https://kbin.social/m/functionalprint/t/84825/Solder-Board-a-soldering-aid-for-adding-pins-to-boards

@Usernameblankface Welcome to the Threadiverse!