WFH

The SV08 is a decent printer if you’re willing to tinker and regularly recalibrate the shit out of it. Sometimes it’s absolutely perfect after THE right calibration move. Sometimes it’s absolute shit and nothing prints properly and/or sticks to the bed and you need to recalibrate it. I’ve found that heat soaking it for at least 1/2h before each print and recalibrating the probe as soon as printing is slightly less than perfect helps a lot.

My takeways:

• Taco bed is a minor issue if you can properly probe.
• It’s FAST and the print volume is excellent
• Everything is automated and/or software controlled so fixing issues can be quite a nightmare if you’re used to all-manual troubleshooting (I come from an Ender3)
• Build quality is OK. It probably needs some costly upgrades to get to Voron-level (Stealthburner hotend, thick aluminium plate, enclosure etc.)
• The DIY upgrades ecosystem seems very active.
• Klipper+Mainsail are amazing

Get a Sovol if you’re a tinkerer and you want to maximize speed and build volume per currency unit.

Get a Prusa if you want a high quality printer out of the box.

I miss Craig Ferguson so much!

So true. I bought an e-bike last autumn and have been using it for pretty much everything since then, but haven’t considered myself fully car-clean until a few weeks ago when I consciously experienced car brain for the first time. My bike was at the repair shop and I had to drive my daughter to daycare instead of biking there. A 5min ride became a 15min nightmare with traffic, anger and frustration, mixed with anxiety of being late. I don’t think driving does that but traffic messes with our brains and our mental health so much. It’s crazy that we consider this mental state “normal” while going somewhere.

Hey Dead Snow is amazing! Norwegians having fun with American teen-slashers tropes and nazi zombies, what not to love?