I can go anywhere at anytime without relying on the poor public transit in my city. Sometimes I just like driving around with no destination because it helps relax me and clear my head.

Back to Bluetooth and Google maps on your phone after the free data period ends. Such a bad move for consumers.

Air could be in the lines or in my case, my front pads were new with 10+mm of pad but glazed smooth. Whoever did my brakes before I bought it either did not do the break in process or rode the brakes all the time. I ended up replacing the pads and rotors to be safe. After the install it took my brakes from needing to start slowing down a block away standing on the pedal to pulling me out of my seat in my truck.

I still need to service my rear brakes but those are drum brakes which I haven’t had to deal with before.

I had to go back to my Pixel 4 while my Pixel 6Pro had it’s screen replaced. It felt like the same phone only I could unlock my phone easier. Maybe I’ll look for an upgrade around the pixel 9 or 10 if it holds out.

Our local scene was decimated by pay to play promoters and it’s never really recovered. We would have to pay in to presell tickets and then try to sell them just to try to break even when opening at 4:30 on a Wednesday. Not exactly a good way to gain new fans.

The actual promoters did nothing to really promote the gig since they were preselling to local bands they made their money that way.

If you’re popular enough it’s not tough to sell tickets once and awhile but if you want to play monthly, your pool of potential ticket buyers shrinks since not everyone can go to a show that often.

I’d second the Mazda recommendation. Depending on your family size now and in the future I can’t recommend the CX-5 enough if you need more space than a 3 hatchback.

If you can’t charge a phev at or work it it’s more of a lead weight than a benefit since you would have to take it somewhere to charge. I am jealous you are getting the MX-30 R-EV which would have been my pick for a new commuter Mazda.

If I waited until printers were completely fool-proof, I would never have gotten one. Instead I jumped in 6yrs ago and I’ve printed so many useful things and a lot of toys. Most rooms in my house have at least one printed item in them because of how useful it is.

Yes I’ve had my share of failures and have had to rebuild a printer a ton of times while learning how it worked, but I also learned a lot of new skills.

• Soldering used to be scary and now it’s no big deal.
• I can de-pin connectors and build new adapters instead of spending $8-10 for someone to ship me one from Amazon.
• With TinkerCAD I can knock out roughly designed parts that are ready to go in a few hours instead of waiting days/weeks

From learning all of those skills I’ve swapped the motherboard and rewired my first printer to have bed levelling and be whisper quiet, 3d printed an RC car, designed parts for my vehicles, completely overhauled my sim racing setup, the list goes on.

If you want to get in to it and have the money to get started, go for it. I started with something like an Ender 3 and still use it today. You don’t need an expensive machine if you want to learn how to maintain it. It all depends on what your goal is with 3d printing.

I hope you aren’t running abs in an area you will spend time in. It stinks and is very finicky to print. I switched to petg and never looked back. I still have two rolls in their boxes I’m never going to use.

Back home, I could own more than an acre of land, not be told what I can and can’t build on it and pay less than what I bought my house for with .25 acre. I would have to drive an hour and 40 min to get to anything I’m personally interested in if I still lived there though which is why I moved to a city.

Growing up I was on a school bus for 45 min to 1hr each way and my parents drove 40+miles each way to work. Now my kid can walk to school or a park, we have non-white neighbors and it’s a short distance to so many experiences. The opportunities here heavily out weighed having more land but as I get more in to cars, I can’t help but wish we had a double lot for car storage

I see the anti-car subscriptions getting much more traffic than pro-car subscriptions. It might just be the demographic here is less in to cars and more into city planning.

I have two i3 clones and fully agree the first month or so was just tweaking the machine and printing parts to improve quality.

My Monoprice Duplicator i3 Plus from 2017 is still going after a LOT of tinkering. My Anycubic Chiron is more or less stock for better and worse. The z-wobble on both is about that last thing I need to do for quality improvements but I’m lazy.

I have a photon mono 4k that has been quite nice. I could use a bigger build plate but I like what I have.

What are the specs of the machine? How hard is it working to run those services? Both of those could be run on a raspberry pi for low usage but then you need to learn linux if you aren’t already using it.

If it’s under powered and working hard all the time it will draw more power and generate more heat.

Does it need to live in your office?

What is your use case for the printer? That might help inform your decision.

A Prusa is a pretty safe pick and more or less fire and forget from what I’ve seen.

I have older printers that are reliable after numerous upgrades (including a new board and adding auto-leveling) for larger parts and a resin printer for detailed stuff.