I’m running 1.0.6 apparently. It simply didn’t occur to me to update it, since it’s not connected to the internet and worked fine out of the box for me.

I’d consider the performance quite good given the low price. Sure there are faster printers out there, but with the default profile in orca slicer it can do a benchy in ~50 minutes which is good enough for me. And quality wise the prints seem to be on par with what other people are producing with much more expensive printers.

What’s missing are some comfort features: no runout sensor, no failed print detection and no network connectivity mean that printing is a relatively manual process and it’s “risky” to do long prints unsupervised, because this thing will happily produce spaghetti until the gcode is done.

I have an Ender 3 V3 SE, never did a firmware update and haven’t had any issues with bed levelling. The auto calibration does its job pretty reliably for me. However, mine had some issues with the gantry being at not quite right angle. It could still print, but it got much better after printing and inserting the appropriate shims under the z-rail mounts.

Well damn. I hope they can get a start under a new company. Annapurna has been kind of a seal of approval for high quality, small dev team games that weren’t the usual triple A bullshit or obvious cash grabs.

Americans discover what the rest of the world has known for a hundred years: that electric trains are just plain better

Every time I read about this kerfuffle, I am astounded by the sheer stupidity of the manufacturer. Even if they may be technically in the right here(I don’t know, since the contracts they have with the operator aren’t public), they effectively shoot themselves in the foot with this PR Desaster. Especially the various national rail operators across Europe will think twice about buying NEWAG, since these operators usually have their own maintenance and repair centers, and expect to service their rolling stock there. And those national operators still make up the lion’s share of the European rail market.

That ‘mrrp’ when they announce that the letter has been delivered 😍

VW has utterly failed to deliver EVs people actually want to buy. They are expensive, have lower quality interiors compared to their combustion brethren, lag behind in infotainment/connectivity compared to other EVs (especially Chinese ones, which is one market VW was betting heavily on) and in terms of range and charging speed they’re also behind their competitors. At least here in Germany it seems like they padded their order books with deliveries to car sharing, rental and taxi companies, looking at how many ID3s and ID4s are present there. It wouldn’t surprise me if they offered massive discounts in hopes of generating demand from private buyers, but that didn’t work out and the fleet market is simply saturated now.