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I got the Creality K2 with CFS and I love it.

It did arrive with a broken door, which seems to be a common issue, but Creality shipped a new one with no hassle and I got it in under a week. Other than that I’ve had no issues.

It’s large and crazy fast compared to my older Ender 3. It does multi color, although I find the purge waste seems excessive, so I avoid most multi color prints except ones that change at layer height, which it handles automatically. The CFS is still useful for swapping automatically if a roll runs out. I’ve got over 200 hours on it now and it hasn’t skipped a beat. I love being able to print anything anytime without spending all the time tinkering to keep it running like I did with the Ender.

I specifically avoided Bambu and waited for this printer to release because of Bambu’s closed ecosystem. They remind me too much of Apple. Creality has a decent track record with open software, maybe not the best with support, but it’s worked for me.

If a thief steals an item with a tracker, they won’t know until the cops come knocking.

If their phone alerts them, now they know to either ditch the item or find and remove the tag quickly. If their phone now allows them to disable tracking for 24 hours easily, they have more time to find and disable the tracker.

I’m not saying these features won’t prevent stalking, but they do hurt theft tracking which is a primary purpose most people use these tags for. It seems they can only really be used for lost items, and only if lost near honest people, not opportunistic thieves.

It’s a shame stalkers had to ruin tracker tags, but I suppose it was inevitable.

If I understand, that collection is missing a lot from the original. I could be wrong though.

TheTrove was a collection of tabletop RPG books and magazines going back decades that has never had a decent replacement yet. It was fairly well organized and quite complete with tons of obscure games and out of print books. It had a different name or two before that but the collection always migrated somewhere until The Trove was finally shut down. I really miss that collection, even though I’ve managed to track down most of what I needed, it has been much more difficult since the shutdown.