been printing for 9 or so years now. it definitely comes in waves of both of those attitudes, but it also depends on your use cases. if you consider yourself a maker in any regard, it could be a tool you use daily. electronics parts, functional pieces, cosplay, and home goods are just a few of the categories i’ve used mine for.

3d printers can be super inexpensive to get into if you have the expendable income, especially compared to when i first started.

i thought this was the welcome to night vale one for a second

minecraft being on 1.21.11 (i think)

budget right now would probably be no more than $150/pan, and with good care at least a year’s worth of cooking. i was raised well enough to not use metal utensils on coated pans so at least that will aid in the life of the pan

add some celery and onions and we’ve got a pretty good pot roast here

that’s better

no PPE, no hi-vis, no SIDA, who let them on the ramp?

Titanfall 2 my beloved, been playing since the pre alpha tech test

other options besides graphene exist, like lineage OS that work on a ton of different phones. and sure graphene requires google hardware but nobody says you have to buy the hardware from google direct. buying used is different than buying from google

not exactly sure what i want to do next. maybe more nature stuff, maybe an animal, dunno yet

gonna go ahead and cut it off here, there’s a lot i feel like i could do with it but i can feel my ambitions trying to get ahead of my skill lmao. i don’t want this to become another hobby that i drop because i can’t do it perfectly without practice

never, unless you count stick figures when i was a child

just finishing Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. it’s definitely taken me a lot longer than i would have liked, but between moving to a new city, a new job, and other hobbies/interests, it’s taken me a month and a half

going through some sci-fi i’ve been wanting to read for a while, so next is either Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Project Hail Mary, or There is no Antimemetics Division

holy shit this bot is a godsend for all those who don’t know what half these acronyms are

even before the link loaded i knew the video. he’s made a few of these and i love them all