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Depends on the music for me. Anything slow or super lyrical tends to break my focus, while more upbeat stuff I've heard dozens of times can help me hit a flow state (or at the very least drown out the goings on around me enough to focus on something). I've had good luck with video game soundtracks, like Bastion or FTL because they tend to be lively without demanding attention.

That or a wall wipe distance maybe? It's been ages since I've used cura though...

Oh nice! That's an awesome display (I'm a little jealous)!

Which TIE Advance is that in the back? The Y-Wing in the background almost makes me think 7150 ( 7146 was my fist ever Lego set, so I have a soft spot for the recycled TIE designs from the early 2000's), but wing joints aren't quite the same.

I mainly use my printer as a tool to solve problems, so my decision process is very much grounded in arriving at a solution as opposed to just finding something to keep the machine busy.

My usual approach is to cast a wide net and go through all the models* that might do what I'm looking for. If I'm lucky, I'll find something that I like enough to print. If not I'll use it as a brainstorming session and either pick out a model or two that I can adapt (or at the very least pull critical dimensions) or get a feel for what I'd like to do differently. From there, it's off to CAD where I'll fire off slivers and prototypes until I'm happy with the fit and function of my part.

*printables is my go-to, but sometimes I'll wander over to thingiverse if I want more options (and know I'm not working on something bespoke)

Glad I'm not the only one, because that's exactly where I'm at. The premises almost relies on consistent yield and unconstrained growth, which nature very much does not like. Plus it doesn't consider the opportunity cost of having to sink your time into becoming a literal farmer (nor any other recurring costs to maintain and harvest your plants).

In this case, the upfront cash is hands down the way to go. You don't even have to do any complicated investing, just huck the mill in a jumbo CD and take the monthly payout. Going off my local credit unions (about 3.75% in dividends for a 5 year term), at $37,500 per year it probably wouldn't be enough to quit your job, but you'd be doing an order of magnitude better than $50 per week. If you're really looking to grow it, you could just dump the lump sum in the S&P 500 (up 95.3% from 5 years ago). (Assuming no taxes and that the dollar still has any value in the next 5 years).

I would say so, my understanding is that lasagna is just a dish made from layering wide flat noodles, sauce, and other fillings.

My mom makes a white lasagna with ground chicken, spinach, Alfredo sauce, and cheese. It's amazing! I prefer it to a traditional lasagna, but I'm biased since I'm not a huge fan of tomatoes.

That sounds pretty similar to how I have my network setup:

• PiHole has conditional forwarding configured (true,192.168.0.0/24,192.168.1.1,lan note: .lan is optional here, I uss it for my internal TLD) to get device names from router
• PiHole uses Unifi as the upstream DNS and DHCP
• Unifi uses cloudflare as the upstream DNS
• Unifi hands out the PiHole as the DNS via DHCP config

That way I get stats in all the places and can use Unifi for DHCP.

I'm partial to Biotech. Mostly in the sheer versatility, depth, and replay-ability it adds to the game, have you ever wanted to:

• robot army? Sure!
• raise children? You got it!
• mess with genetics? Why not!
• diversity beyond the standard issue human? Done!
• become a vampire cult? It's an option!
• weaponize pollution? Absolutely!

The other DLCs aren't bad, but aren't quite as impactful/ noticable compared to the banger that is Biotech. Quick rundown for the sake of fairness:

• Royalty: adds a Royal faction with advanced technology and access to psychic powers. Unique win con is hosting/ protecting the emperor at your colony.
• Ideology: adds religion/ beliefs, that can shape how your colonists feel about various things (being underground, what they eat, how they feel about technology, and more) and other people. Also adds trees that spawn a dryad helper when your colonists take care of the trees. Unique win con is a treasure hunt quest line that has you partially restart your colony a few times.
• Anomaly: adds a horror twist to RimWorld. Fight and study monsters, raise the undead, and uncover horrors beyond comprehension. Unique win con is a study of the void and the entities beyond it.

I haven't had a chance to play with the new DLC yet (modder's curse), but it's looking to be a serious contender for my favorite. Odyssey lets you build a ship that acts as a mobile colony and you can travel both the planet and it's orbit collecting upgrades for your ship and other unique items. Unique win con is an ultimate showdown with the mechanoids in space.

RimWorld is meant to tell a story, so "despite our best efforts, we all lied on the ground, bleeding and dying as we watched everything we built burn around us. While the world continued to turn, indifferent to our struggles." Is a perfectly fine way for a story to end (though I will admit it doesn't always feel great to watch a colony die).

On a general note, weapons in RimWorld tend to be suited to different roles and fighting styles, and very rarely is it just a matter of "get guns (or whatever research), win game" (I'm pretty sure some bows can out DPS a gun, depending on the quality/ range (be sure to take a look at the info window on your weapons).

That said, other than the blanket advice of looking at each story as a lesson, it might help to know what kind of external threats are wiping you out.

Currently slogging my way though the late game (or at least I was until more pressing things came up), there's some slight automation towards the mid game that helps a bit, but the grind doesn't really go away. Mostly due to the fact that you end up spending Faith/ corpses/ gold way faster than you can get them. I find myself in a waiting pattern fairly often- there's still things to do, but progress on major quests feels super slow (and almost unrewarding). The DLC is mostly regarded as filler, but if you're a completionist (or like what they offer), it's not awful at the current sale price.

Note: there are achievements that are gated behind having the DLCs if that's your thing.

It's not strictly a bad game, but I'd almost rather play Stardew for the farming/ story or Factorio for the automation.

Seconding the confused Voron noises. I mean, I'd be really curious to see the 3d printer firmware market share beak down, but I feel like anybody building a custom printer is going to have a far easier time with Klipper, just because of how much easier it is to get dialed in.