One printer that isn’t mentioned as much is the Qidi Q1 Pro, which looks like a killer value.

I personally have an A1 because it was really cheap in my region, but Bambu has done a bunch of anti-competitive things by blocking third-party software, so if I had to start over, I would get something else.

Other good options I think would be the Ender 3 V3, Sovol SV06, and maybe even a Prusa MK4S if it’s within your budget. The cheaper printers are perfectly fine though.

Linux Mint is a nice and easy distro that is quite good :D

honestly inkscape is great :D I switched from illustrator after my adobe creative cloud subscription expired, and it’s been an easy transition!

Materialious has DeArrow, but apparently only the desktop and Android clients work. The web client is blocked by YT unfortunately :(

that’s cool, and there’s even a USB-C version as well :D

I did not do a good job at spray-painting it!

oh THAT’S why I can’t download anything. But even with an account, I easily hit the download limit :(

oh that’s sad. I mostly switched out of proton bc I didn’t want to put all my eggs in one basket. Also, not having IMAP sucksss because both the official proton and tuta apps are SLOW

also, check out some of the firefox forks. I personally really like Floorp since it lets me put the tab bar at the bottom and customise the UI! Librewolf is also decent but some of its privacy anti-fingerprinting stuff makes it a bit annoying to use

onlyoffice is also a pretty good option for ms office compatibility

i think he wants a rec for a linux distro

gmail -> proton or tuta if you don’t care about IMAP, or any other decent email provider (I use disroot, I set my brother up with mailfence, they both seem quite good. I use them with thunderbird) pycharm -> not an IDE, but I like VSCodium (vscode without MS)

why is it called the “H2D” anyways? What does the H mean? What’s the D for? It can’t mean 3D, because the number before it is 2, not a 3.

fluent reader is good!

yeah, the Q1 Pro looks like a banger value as an affordable enclosed CoreXY printer

I haven’t used the Qidi Q1 Pro before, but what I will add is that I have the A1 and it works quite well. The Bambu Lab restriction on third-party access can be mitigated by using LAN mode + Tailscale. It printe very fast, and AMS works well, and I’m pretty happy with it.

That being said, the Qidi Q1 Pro does seem like an excellent value and I would encourage you to check out more reviews of it, seems like a crazy good value on paper.

yk, fair enough. if you like it, that’s fine by me

yep, the app is SLOW

I’ve tried tuta before. It seems pretty okay, but it doesn’t support IMAP meaning you have to use their app, and (at least for me) it was SLOW.

I personally use disroot, but there’s loads of other options, like mailfence seems like a decent alternative. Just pick one that supports IMAP

i’ve fixed it! now it’s specifically the V3 SE. also, I’ve also included the “KE” which seems to be a slightly better version with klipper-based firmware